Karen Fohrhaltz Miele, chef/proprietor and her husband and working partner, Michael Miele, launched LuLu & Me (253 Fifth Avenue), in 2011, and it has fast become NoMad’s neighborhood restaurant in the new, hot area of New York City.
Each Tuesday, the distinctive chef presents a special menu item from “Karen’s Kitchen,” and on March 18, Lulu’s Pan Roasted Sea Scallops with Red Quinoa, parsnips and limonatais the dinner entrée priced at $25.
For reservations call 212-290-2460 or visit www.luluand.me.
"It's a challenge to create a menu that's at once satisfying to the week-day lunch crowd and also to the varied dinner guests we serve,” says chef Karen. “The food has to be accessible and tasty, can't be too edgy and must fit my style, healthy, locally sourced, and with a focus on the elemental flavors of the ingredients.”
Lulu’s has a remarkably diverse clientele. LuLu’s has become the place that folks who work in the neighborhood – increasingly hi tech, fashion and design companies – love to have lunch or stop in after work for a beverage and a bite at the bar. In addition, the growing residential population has come to discover that LuLu's a terrific place. Additionally, the number of hotels in the neighborhood has exploded in the last three years bringing LuLu’s tourists from all over the world; it is not uncommon to have a family from Oslo sitting next to one from Miami.