Lulav Review: Overpriced, Slow, and Average Food in Little Rock
For those who have heard of Lulav restaurant on 6th Street in Little Rock what has been heard is usually good. It was that good word that led us to go to Lulav for dinner recently even though we had never been before. We knew it was a pricey place and reserved this dinner for a special occasion with something to celebrate. What a mistake that was. Lulav disappointed on every count that a restaurant can be graded on.
Let’s start with the service. It is never a good sign when you stand at the door waiting on a server to even greet you, much less seat you (we had reservations too), but we stood for around 3-4 minutes just looking around when we were then greeted and told our table would be ready soon. Another 3-4 minutes later we are taken to our table at which time we don’t even have our drink orders taken, but do receive menus. About 5 minutes later, the waiter finally came back and when we weren’t ready to order our entrees yet, he left without taking our drink order still, but we were able to catch him and get a drink order placed. Then, about 10 minutes later, drinks finally arrive and our order is taken. So, about 20-25 minutes from being seated to get our drinks and our orders taken. The rest of the dinner service was similarly poor with drink refills not occurring timely and the waiter generally only appearing to bring the next course of food.
The food when it did finally arrive (the cooking times were similarly long to the wait service times) was almost obscenely of below average to average quality from a restaurant that is supposed to be a top level restaurant and that charges prices that would cause you to expect to receive top quality food. The entree steak was tough with a lot of gristly meat and was badly over seasoned. The accompanying sides were not worthy of the name and were also overcooked. The other entree steak was average, but definitely not worth the $38 dollar price that was being charged for it. As readers know, we normally sample dessert, but could not wait to end this dining experience so are unable to give a dessert review.
When all was said and done, the bill came to a total of $150. Wow! For that price there are several top notch restaurants that we could have eaten dinner at and they will be the ones getting our business in the future, not Lulav.
In its drive to be pretentious and try to make a name for itself, Lulav has failed miserably to bring its standards up to those required of those type of restaurants it aspires and falsely claims to be. The food, service, atmosphere, and price are all failures and going to Lulav to eat is not a recommended activity of this site.
Lulav in Little Rock gets two huge thumbs down from this writer and is currently residing at the very top of the list of this site’s worst restaurants in Little Rock report. The standards at Lulav need to rise significantly to justify a meal at half the price of what they are charging, but this writer will not be going back to find out if they ever improve. This was a disastrous experience that will hopefully not be repeated in the future by not going to Lulav.
