Lulu: San Franciso

Date:  jeudi 5 novembre 2009
Location:  816 Folsom St
San Francisco, CA 94107-1123
(415) 495-5775
http://www.restaurantlulu.com/

This place sucks on all levels.  Sucky service.  Very bland tasting food and even worse presentation.  Super ugly "pear beignet" dessert (which came as part of Montforte's prix fixe lunch menu) which looked like a dried, hacked up unmentionable body part.  The "pear" dessert contained no pear save for a few square bits on the bottom (might be del monte canned too!)...  very disappointing on both content and presentation.  I will refrain from posting the picture as I do not want to taint my blog.  To the right is some goat cheese grape leaves thing on cardboard bread with some crappy olive oil.

 
The service mildly made my blood boil.  The server/waiter/runner kept "cutting" into the natural conversation/energy of our table.  Proper sommelier serving etiquette deems that servers present drinks and dishes counter-clockwise per the host at the table;  also based on the set up, one should serve accordingly so as not to "cut" into the customers' conversations.  After the server did this 3x - I absolutely forbid it to happen again.  Politely asked him to kindly please serve AROUND the other side of the table.  


To the left is my romaine pomegranete salad.  Horrible looking!  Taste was not "too" bad but really absolutely nothing memorable whatsoever.

To the left is some chicken sandwich that tasted better than it looked.  The presentation is horrible.  It looks like a mexican jalopy (junk car).  


I do not know what kind of vibe this restaurant is going for.  Maybe they are trying to go for pseudo-chic older crowd.  The interior was out dated as well.  I do not mind this so long as the resto stays true to its character, and does not try to be something it is not.  Lulu is just a sad, sad, pathetic, facade on all accounts.  Faker. 


WHERE IS THE SAVORY?