LuLu Cafe

Pros: Unusual foods in an unusual setting.
Cons: Expensive, the food was good, not great.

Please Note: The name of this restaurant is Restaurant Lulu not LuLu Cafe, although I am reviewing the correct restaurant.

I am reviewing Restaurant LuLu. On our way to Hawaii we stayed overnight in San Francisco and took out to...

Pros: Excellent food and winelist, walking distance from BART.
Cons: Small tables, no seating until the entire party has arrived, not vegetarian friendly.

Preparations to dine at LuLu (or anywhere in the City) were painstakingly made nearly a month in advance. For a suburbanite like myself, no detail could be left unattended for venturing into the City.

It's an hour drive from the Valley into...

Pros: yummy desserts and appetizers
Cons: sometimes the food and service is inconsistent

If you love sweets that aren't overly rich, then you must come to Restaurant LuLu. Their dessert menu consists of Blueberry or Apricot Tarts, Panna Cotta with fresh fruit, Warm Chocolate cake that's to die for, Vanilla souffle crepes with nectarine...

Pros: excellent food, central location
Cons: noisy, sometimes slow service

LuLu is an upscale family-style restaurant for folks who aren't dining out with their families -- great big plates of food that you share with everyone at your table.

The last visit to LuLu was with several co-workers for our holiday luncheon...

Pros: Good food, happening crowd, nice interior
Cons: Loud, loud, loud

If you are looking for a quiet evening at a well-regarded San Francisco restaurant, you'll hate LuLu's. With a noise decibel rating that easily contends with a New York city sidewalk, LuLu's "ambience" is one of constant chatter, endless...

Pros: Pleasant, casual atmosphere
Cons: Mediocre service, small portions

Every review I've ever read about LuLu is overwhelmingly positive, so I was surprised to find it a mediocre dining experience. Maybe in another city it would stand out more, but in San Francisco where there's more great food than one can hope to consume...

Pros: Good food. Wild atmosphere. Rowdy, fun, energetic.
Cons: Challenging location, loud, loud, loud.

It is a good thing we had reservations, otherwise we would have waited, become annoyed, and not enjoyed the chaotic atmosphere of Lulu’s renovated warehouse dining room—loud, vibrant, and warm with revelry. Everyone seemed to be having a good time. Nor...

Pros: Great food at reasonable prices
Cons: Arrogant staff and a noisy dining room

LuLu serves wonderful simple dishes at reasonable prices. The pan-roasted mussels make LuLu worthy of a visit from faraway places. Nowhere prepares mussels as well and as simply as LuLu. Also, very few places can make roasted pork as well as Lulu, who is...

Pros: Great food next to Moscone Convention Center
Cons: Too enticing for the convention goer

The only problem I have with LuLu's is that it is right next to the Moscone Convention Center and has made me miss valuable convention time during lunch. Whenever I go to San Francisco on business, I make it a point to get to LuLu's once, if not more...

Pros: Big portions, fun atmosphere, cool place
Cons: A little unsophisticated, some slow service

I went to dinner at Lulu after my wife loved their sister restaurant, Zibibo in Palo Alto.
The place looks very cool when you walk in the door. The high rounded ceilings, the recessed main dining area, the clever salt and pepper shakers. All very...

Pros: Trendy (still), decently priced, good food
Cons: Dark and noisy

It's a nice enough place with decent food and hip people, that is continuously recommended by SF-ers who are in the know.

However, it can get quite full so any kind of real conversation seems practically impossible when the tables are so...

Pros: Great food, great service, affordable prices
Cons: Always a Crowd

This is the best restaurant in San Francisco, and is located in a prime spot. LuLu's menu varies from night to night, and the prices are excellent. The atmosphere in Lulu is very relaxing, and the decoration is very nice. The food is either presented...

Pros: Valet Parking
Cons: Worst Service in History

I recently did a two-week eating circuit with my parents who were in town, and one evening we found ourselves at Lulu.

I had heard about the noise factor (yes, indeed it is deafening), heard about the reservations fiascos (we actually sat on...

Pros: Great value and food
Cons: Service is mediocre, loud and busy

Been to LuLu twice now, once for lunch, once for dinner. Reservations are highly recommended, unless you enjoy waiting and standing in line. However, if you do, it's not so bad as there is a large bar area and even a spacious seating area where you can...

Pros: great food reasonably priced
Cons: somewhat barnlike

I've probably visited Lulu's more often than any other single restaurant in San Francisco. Why? Two reasons, the Frito Misto and the Warm Chocolate Cake.
The Frito Misto is a lightly fried collection of artichoke slivers with the occasional...