The air of Brooklyn hangs over Notre-Dame Street, especially since a “pasta” bar has just opened there: Lulu's, a great place that lovers of fresh, quick, but above all good pasta will remember.
Published yesterday at 3:00 p.m.
It's lunch time here, and for good reason: Lulu's has only been open for less than a month and is already attracting hungry students and young professionals from the region with its generous take-out portions in paper cups at a low price and high quality. Everything here is imported from Italy: from the wheat semolina flour to the fresh pasta machine, including tomatoes and Parmesan.
PHOTO HUGO-SÉBASTIEN AUBERT, THE PRESS
The pasta here is prepared daily using a machine imported from Italy.
PHOTO HUGO-SÉBASTIEN AUBERT, THE PRESS
The desserts are from Délices Lafrenaie.
PHOTO HUGO-SÉBASTIEN AUBERT, THE PRESS
The address has a Brooklyn feel.
PHOTO HUGO-SÉBASTIEN AUBERT, THE PRESS
We owe the beautiful concept to Anthousa Siounis and Jimmy Petropoulos, originally Greeks but no less big fans of Italian cuisine.
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The concept is simple: you choose your pasta (rigati, campanelle, casarecce?) and then your sauce. There's the option to create your own dish on-site or indulge in classics (chicken tarragon, Tuscan chicken, pistachio pesto, as decadent as you like). Or: “Lulu’s creations” – taco cream, cheeseburgers, etc. – surprising but anything but disappointing. Gourmet salads round out the short menu displayed behind the “bar.” For desserts we are offered cannoli, Nutella cornetti or lemon cake from Délices Lafrenaie. For drinking: bottles of wine and canned cocktails, for consumption on site or to take away.
To the couple Jimmy Petropoulos and Anthousa Siounis, originally Greeks but no less great lovers of Italian cuisine, we owe this beautiful concept, which was inspired by many trips between Montreal and New York, where they smelled a vein: the “Fast Gourmet”, quality home cooking but without spending a lot of money, take away (or not), open 7 days a week. We are also promised a terrace in summer.
1346 Notre-Dame Street West, Montreal
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