Lulu's Restaurant Restaurant Review
21 N. 17th St. (E. Franklin St.) 
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Richmond, VA 23219
804-343-9771 | Make Restaurant Reservations | Menu
Lulu's Restaurant is one of our 2012
| Top 10 Richmond Food Rating Restaurants
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| Legend has it that original co-owner Steve Jurina, a Millie's Diner alum, wanted a girl's name for his own restaurant. Did he have a crush on a neighbor named Lulu growing up? Maybe. Maybe not. But one certainty is that the "eat generation" is sweet on this Shockoe Bottom spot, now owned solely by Paul Keevil (also of Millie’s fame), within watermelon seed-spitting distance of the farmers market. It's got that distressed look---industrial fans overhead, booths open on both ends, exposed everything. The visible kitchen, where young cooks display passion for everything from über-comfort meatloaf to loftier confit leg of duck with beluga lentils, seduces with any number of aromas, including Baja fish tacos. Interesting tastes follow through to desserts: deep-dish peanut butter-chocolate pie is rivaled by the double-layered, sugar-dusted strawberry shortcake. The endearing spot-on staff takes pride in this place and rightly so. It's a lulu of a restaurant. |
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