- Neighborhoods:
- Concordia, Northeast Coalition of Neighborhoods
- Cuisine:
- Spanish, Vegetarian, Seafood, Tapas / Small Plates
- Price:
- $$$
- Categories:
- Restaurants
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lolo, a Spanish tapas restaurant and bar from restaurateur Giorgio Kawas and chef Peter Schuh of Giorgio's in the Pearl District, focuses on finger foods designed to compliment Spanish cocktails and wines. \n\nlolo draws from the culinary traditions of all of Northern Spain, including the Basque Country, Cantabria, Asturias and Galicia. In addition to tapas and raciones influenced by Spanish favorites and Pacific Northwest ingredients, lolo's Spanish wines come from the regions including Rioja, Navarra, Rias Baixas and Catalunya. \n\nlolo's setting is contemporary: clean, simple materials and forms combine with warm colors and tactile surfaces. Displaying the work of neighborhood artists, lolo embraces the palpable energy of the Alberta Arts District.\n\n\nDue to the use of fresh seasonal ingredients, our menu changes daily. View Less …
A Portland treasure that deserves more hype!.
A smiling and friendly server seats you, and brings delicious Spanish olives, warm bread with vingear/olive oil, chicken skewers with
moorish spices, and Spanish Rioja wine.
Is your mouth watering yet? That is only a taste as to what Lolo offers.
Lolo is a Spanish restaurant found on Alberta street that offers tapas: small dishes of variety, that are meant to be ordered in numbers, in addition to larger plates if you choose. The food is impressive, tasty, and incredibly inexpensive -- especially if you choose to stick with tapas. Everytime I eat at Lolo, you'll hear me saying "Mmmmm!" quite a bit. This place is heaven for your tastebuds, and I find myself even happier when I see my check... so inexpensively priced for such great eats.
I highly recommend Lolo for the great food that is also beautiful to look at, the ambience, the wines/cocktails, and the friendly and attentive service. All is excellent and keeps me coming back on a weekly basis. Yes, weekly.
It is a must try.
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Paella was bland, shrimp was bad.. We've been wanting to try this place for a while and finally had an opportunity. For tapas we had the empanadas and the anchovie/olive/pepper sticks. We enjoyed both. And I have to admit, I've never had paella before, so if it was really good, maybe I just would rather my food have more flavor. The rice tasted like it was cooked in nothing but onion and tomato broth with a barely noticeable hint of saffron. The octopus and sea scallops on top were good, and probably are what made the dish for two so expensive at $37. But the four big shrimp were not good. My guess is that they were farmed shrimp and not wild caught. After paying $60 plus a tip for a once in a blue moon night out without the kid, I was pretty disappointed that the main dish and my first experience of paella was so flavorless. View Less …
Lolo is great.
My wife and I have traveled extensively in Spain and it is truly unfair to judge an Spanish restaurant in America, expecting it to be
identical to the food you get in Spain...its not. Many of the basic ingredients are not available (within reason) in this country (Jamon Pata Negra for instance), so at best a Spanish restaurant in the US is "variations on a theme". This being said a good US Spanish restaurant does what it can with whats available & Lolo gets this, (*as does Toro Bravo). Lolos paella was as good (or better) as any we have had in Spain. Everything across the board was better than expected. While not everything was true Spanish I say "so what", the food was great, the service was great and was a very nice dinning experience.
The only thing I can find bad to say was finding a parking spot wasnt the easiest......boo hoo on my end really! BFD!
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loved it. I am not a fan of the tapas concept. Somehow, this didn't feel like that, we ordered 1o-12 plates, for four of us, plus cocktails (plenty) and our bill was crazy low. I was full and happy and the food was fresh and gorgeous to look at. The atmosphere is great and the people-watching was epic. You should take people you like here. View Less …
really good. Always wanted to try this place and between a strong craving for spanish food and my last disappointing visit to toro bravo I visited lolo. The service was friendly and prompt. I noticed a few things on the menu that seemed strange to me (ex. american burger) but steered clear of them entirely. If you know anything about spanish cuisine you can find several authentic foods here. Between me and another we had a few glasses of wine, and tried eight different tapas for about $60, not bad. The seafood items were my favorite here. I will return. View Less …
