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Sunday night we celebrated Jake and Emily's birthday at Lola in downtown St. Louis. I'd been to Lola a couple times before but never for dinner. It's an interesting place with a different kind of menu. Silly me; I always thought crêpes were just some sort of breakfast thing or dessert or something. Actually Lola's is located in what used to be "Crepes in the City", a popular downtown eatery that closed over a year ago. I think it's pretty cool that Lola decided to keep crepes around for the people who loved them so much. The crepes on their menu include:

Lola
Ratatouille and Goat cheese, topped with crème fraiche

Madahari
Roasted chicken, spinach, roasted red pepper, topped with our Feta cream sauce

Lolita
Pancetta, asparagus, and carmalized onion, topped cherry tomatoes & Lola’s white sauce

Salome
Smoked salmon, capers, red onion and tomato, topped with dill crème

Jezebel
Balsamic glazed wild mushrooms topped with lola’s white sauce

Marilyn
Sliced roasted roma tomatoes, smoked mozzarella and herb pesto

For the big birthday celebration I chose the Madahari with a small spinach salad on the side. The crepe was good but my spinach salad was excellent. Yum! Jake and Emily didn't choose crepes at all. Jake had a steak (could he be any less adventurous?) and Emily chose a lobster dog (now that's adventurous!). You go girl! :-)

Lola now has an absinthe bar with organic martinis. Read about it:
Lola unveils its new lounge this weekend

Lola's website: http://www.welovelola.com/