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Lola

15 Watts St., New York, NY 10013
nr. Thompson St.  See Map | Subway Directions Hopstop Popup
212-675-6700 Send to Phone

  • Price Range: $$$

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  • Reader Rating:

    6.2 out of 10

    6 Reviews | Write a Review

  • Cuisine: Cajun/Creole, Caribbean, French, Southern/Soul
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Nearby Subway Stops

C, E at Spring St.; A, C, E at Canal St.

Prices

$24-$32

Payment Methods

American Express, MasterCard, Visa

Special Features

  • Brunch - Weekend
  • Lunch
  • Private Dining/Party Space
  • Take-Out

Alcohol

  • Full Bar

Reservations

Recommended

Profile

This venue is closed.

No one ever said opening a restaurant in this town was easy. Or quick. It took Lola owners Tom Patrick-Odeen and his wife, Gayle, two years to claw their way to victory over a litigation-happy neighborhood-activist group that made the American Temperance Society seem like a bunch of pushovers. Along the way to re-creating their popular soul-food restaurant in Soho (the original Chelsea location closed in 2004), there were State Liquor Authority flip-flops, private dicks, charges of racism, countercharges of intimidation tactics, and a smoking-gun Zagat blurb. Oh, and two week before opening, their executive Top Chef toque Dave Martin packed up his knives and left. Stepping into the breach to oversee Lola’s Cajun-Creole-inspired kitchen and resuscitate its much-missed 100-spice fried-chicken-and-Sunday-gospel brunch is Jennifer Printz, a veteran of Payard and Le Cirque. — Rob Patronite and Robin Raisfeld

Caribbean Brunch

Sat., 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. seatings, $42 prix-fixe

Gospel Brunch
Sun., 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. seatings, $42 prix-fixe

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Reader Ratings

6.2 "Mixed Reviews"
Average Reader Rating
on a Scale of 10		 Write Your Own Review

Lola's Def Gonna See Me Again, Because It Truly Is Soul

Chrisz18 from 11590 | Posted on 10/7/08

Overall Reader Rating: 10 (Highly Recommended)
Food: 10
Service: 10
Décor: 10
Value: 10

This restaurant is simply amazing; and after the first time you go, you will without a doubt want to go back. The service is superb even before I walked into the restaurant (When I was on the sidewalk) I was immediately...Read More

Bad Business

pt358 from 11238 | Posted on 10/1/08

Overall Reader Rating: 2 (Not Recommended)
Food: 2
Service: 1
Décor: 8
Value: 1

I was here for a wedding that rented out the restaurant. At 11:45pm after many guests had left, and everyone was up listening to the toasts, my camera was taken off my table. I was sitting in the back with...Read More

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