Occasional live music, and a manager who'll put your home team's game on a TV. The BBQ pork mac and cheese turns a side dish into the main event -- order it and understand why people ask for it specifically.
Co-owner Nonda Karvelas has talked about growing the concept beyond Mount Prospect: a local report said Karvelas reached a verbal agreement to open a second Emerson's in Des Plaines, in the former Cheeseburger in Paradise space at Metropolitan Square, though the lease never came together after a foreclosure stalled the move. That the original location has stayed a standalone for years despite that interest says something about how tied the bar is to its specific downtown Mount Prospect corner -- a historic-district fixture rather than a chain in waiting.
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