Restaurant Week at LouLou, Chelsea, NYC
Loulou Petit Bistro & Speakeasy is a charming French bistro in the heart of Chelsea, where I met a friend for lunch during Restaurant Week. We both did the two-course $30 lunch, selecting an appetizer and an entree but skipping dessert. The portions at the French bistro are generous. We each savored each bite of their frisée salad in a citrus vinaigrette topped with a poached egg and smoked bacon lardons—a classic French ingredient of small cubes or strips of fatty bacon or pork fat. This plentiful salad could have satisfied us as lunch. Deciding to share, we asked Gabriela, our attentive server, to have the kitchen split the entrees [...]