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...

Pros: good food
Cons: noisy

I like lulu's especially the opportunity to do a little wine tasting with your meal. I went there twice now and went to their sister restaurant in palo alto (Zebibos). Excellent. I really like their weekly specials. The duck isn't so bad, I think that...

Pros: Very good food served family style. Great roast chicken.
Cons: Noisy, slightly haphazard service. Parking requires an effort.

Ever since it opened, I have made an annual Christmastime pilgrimage from Santa Cruz to San Francisco to LuLu to eat California eclectic cuisine served family style. At first, the dining experience was superb, a combination of great food lovingly...

Pros: Good atmosphere
Cons: Food

I went to LuLu's about 2 years ago and loved it. I still remember those mussels. Mmmmm. The food was fantastic and the evening superb.

My return visit last week was very disappointing. Everything we ordered was sub par. The pork was dry...

Pros: close to Moscone Center
Cons: expensive valet, average food, high priced

Last week a few friends and I had dinner at Lulu's. We started with the grilled mussels, a house specialty, and they were absolutely wonderful. They were so tender that the mussels practically broke apart when you tried to get them out of the shells....

Pros: Pizza
Cons: Over cooked pork, under staffed, manager was not working the floor.

Went there last night with a group of 11 for a birthday dinner. Took way too long for us to get our orders taken, meals arrived 2 at a time over a 30 minute period. No one could figure out whether to wait for the groups meals or just start eating. Food was okay - side dishes were good, pizza good. Pork and chicken over cooked. It took WAY to long for our coffees - they came out 2 at a time, 20 minutes between. Finally I got up and asked for the manager.

She handled us quickly and took 20% of the top of the bill. This was fair, however I would not go to eat there again. Simply put they were way under staffed. Not our servers fault at all, she was doing the best she could.