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for people particular about their coffee
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Review by Constance MarkiewiczIf someone wrote the treatment for a sitcom based on Lulu's, the network execs would dismiss it as far-fetched: A breakfast-and-lunch cafe where world-class legal and literary scholars hang out with cops, artists, postal workers, surgeons, soccer moms, grad students, actors and three-year-olds grabbing bowls of granola on their way to daycare. When surgeon and Lulu's regular John Sundin shipped out to Rwanda with the International Committee of the Red Cross during that country's devastating civil war, he faxed each day's reports from his field hospital back to Lulu's so that the clientele had more moment-to-moment info from the struggle than the UN did. Sundin's Lulu's file later got published in Harper's.
Each morning and noon the faithful squeeze into Lulu deCarrone's tiny, art-filled cafe not only for the beautiful breads, pastries and sandwiches, but for the boss' sparkling intelligence and wit. As for the famously herculean strength of the house coffee: A Lulu's devotee who recently had to leave New Haven for a month reported with bliss that, after the hiatus, that first cup of Lulu's "lifted the top of (her) head off."
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A Unique Coffeehouse
49 Cottage Street New Haven Connecticut USA 06511
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