Lulu's

Amazing food that never disappoints. Love this place. One of my Evanston all time favorites. The bento box???? A little bit of all my favorites.

TL;DR 4.5 Great food & service with MASSIVE food portions! My family and I used to visit Lulu's all the time when they were down the street, after they closed down everyone was bummed out. So happy they're back! Ambiance: Lulu's is now part of a triple restaurant combo with a shared kitchen & offerings for all of them. I believe the other 2 are Tex-mex and bar food. The place has kind of a nice pub feel which is a bit of a juxtaposition for Thai fusion but it is nicely appointed and comfortable.Service: Our server was very kind and warm, and always appeared at the perfect moment to help us out. Food came out INSANELY fast and was hot and fresh.Food: We had the poke and wings as appetizers and both were very large and tasty. Wings were sticky, sweet, hot and savory... perfect with a beer. The poke comes with delicious rice and could easily be someone's entree and they'd be very happy with it.Happy to say our fam favorite entree (the ginger chicken salad) is just as I remember if not better due to the fact that it seems to have doubled in size! We all laughed when the salad came out cause it was so massive. I ate for 15 min and took home a doggie bag filled with an entire meal, needless to say the value is great.Look forward to returning and bringing my mom since it was here favorite salad of all time.

One benefit to this place is that you can order from its sister restaurants next to and above this location. Lulu's food is pretty standard quasi dressed-up Asian take out. I'd rather hang out at five and dime upstairs (one of the sister restaurants, I believe.)

Lulus ginger salad is completely crave-able!!! Love it! Service solid and nice ambiance!

We had Lulu's for dinner on a student film set that I was working on last month and it absolutely blew us away! The peanut noodles were out-of-this-world as well as the fried rice. I think the real sleeper was the Ginger salad, we didn't expect much from a takeout salad but the dressing was so delicious I COULD NOT stop eating it with the crispy wontons haha. I will definitely be coming back in-person in the future.Thank you Lulu's from the entire Mixed Signals team!

This has to be my favorite bento box! The cucumbers and salad were amazing. Service was also great.

the food presentation was very appetizing and the atmosphere of the restaurant is cozy and dimly lit, very good for a date spot. however, the food itself disappointed me. i got the spicy dragon noodles with extra spice, but the sweetness and the saltiness of the noodles overpowered any other taste that i could experience. the vegetables were soaked in sauce and i ended up getting a headache from it. my friend got the curry noodles; but there was no resemblance of curry in there and all i could taste was sugar. it's surprising how someone could finish a whole plate by themselves when i couldn't even take 2 bites of the either dish without getting a headache. i hesitate to give this place a 1 star since the staff was so nice and the place was very pretty, but this definitely is not asian food.

Food is just extremely sweet. How can people eat this food and not taste extreme level of sugar and salt? It says something about our food culture and how we have become desensitized towards sugar. We ordered the tempura cauliflower, panang curry and wide rice noodles. Everything just tasted like extreme sugar, and salt, and the chicken was very dry. I am really curious how much sugar and salt they are putting into these foods, and how it compares to what is considered normal.

Read the reviews and saw that the restaurant was very crowded. One reviewer asked why the overall review value was around 3.7 since everything was so good at Lulus. My verdict: 3.7 is a bit high. Food is average at best. Yes, portions are large but the reason we could not finish the peanut noodles was due to quality, not quantity. Just bland. Prices are reasonable but if no value if the food is not remarkable.

Huge and long-time Lulu's fan. I was surprised to see that overall that they only get 3.5 stars and it seems in my quick glance that most of the less positive reviews are around their prices and not their food. Lulu's isn't cheap -- that is true and I get it but I've never had a bad meal at or from Lulu's and in fact, almost always their food is very good to outstanding. Their salads -- amazing! Sesame noodles -- so yummy! Potato croquettes -- amazing! Their bento box is sooo yummy and beyond filling -- you can get two meals out of it. I highly recommend Lulu's an Evanston favorite!