My dinner with Rahm.
Nothing captures the change that has taken place in my neighborhood over the past four decades than the restaurant Lula.
We think of it as our neighborhood place. You can get the world’s best BLT there for lunch and it won’t require you to take out a mortgage to do it.
Dinner is a little different. Lula has a cafe menu of regular items and and constantly changing specials that can set you back twenty bucks for an entree. Not cheap, but not crazy expensive either. It is one of those local food, sustainable, organic places that are easy to make fun of, but Lula actually makes really good good.
Living in the neighborhood means that you don’t quite notice that Lula is not a neighborhood place anymore. It is