Cafe Lou Lou Louisville: Tasty-Tasty, Fun-Fun

If you're looking for a restaurant where the food is tasty-tasty, the service is quick-quick and the décor is fun-fun, you’ll find it all at Café Lou Lou Louisville. With two locations — 2216 Dundee Road in the Highlands and 106 Sears Avenue in St. Matthews  — Café Lou Lou Louisville offers varied dishes ranging from meatball calzones to black bean lasagna and pasta jambalaya.

You might want to start things off with an appetizer, such as the $7.50 crispy shrimp lavash — flat bread topped with smoked shrimp, arugula and Parmesan and provolone cheese. There are also chicken wings, Wild Bill’s famous Cajun Cheese, hummus, garlic cheese sticks and more. For a distinctive treat, consider the $8.50 shrimp and grits, made with New Orleans-style shrimp cooked in garlic, Cajun spices and butter over cheese grits.

If these are your salad days, Café Lou Lou has you covered with its classic wedge, seasonal, Greek, Cobb, grilled chicken, Caesar and summer salads. The calzones are available in a vegetarian style, as well as meatball and four cheese. Each is $10.50.

There are pastas aplenty — angel hair with veggies, chilled orzo pasta with pan-seared scallops, jambalaya style with smoked sausage, crawfish and shrimp and a sauce of tomato and chicken stock. Pasta offerings also include Carbonara, shrimp pesto with tortellini, four-cheese ravioli with shrimp and shitake mushroom, linguini and meatballs, chicken picata, smoked mozzarella ravioli, lasagna and the black bean lasagna, made with beans, green chiles and jalapenos, topped with cheddar and pepper jack cheeses.

Just want a sandwich? Try one of Lou Lou’s $9.25 offerings, such as the jerk chicken roll with mixed greens, jerked chicken, garlic yogurt sauce and Jamaican salsa; the Muffaletta sandwich with ham and Genoa salami, provolone cheese and olive salad. Other sandwiches include the gyro roll, grilled chicken roll, meatball, spinach and artichoke roll, turkey delight, smoked pork tenderloin, portabella and pesto, Asian shrimp and more.

There are numerous pizza possibilities at Café Lou Lou, too: Mediterranean, smoked barbecue chicken, combination, four-cheese, spinach and artichoke, potato, veggie and more. Pizza prices are $11.95 for a 10-inch or $17.50 for a 14-inch pie. Quench your thirst with a soft drink or an array of Tazo teas. Café Lou Lou also boasts an extensive list of wines and bottled and draft beers.

Café Lou Lou takes reservations and even delivers. Call (502) 459–9566 for details.

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