On a scale of never again to I've gotta have it, I give it an ehhh. A friend had suggested trying Lola's some time ago, but we went in another direction. After having visited my hometown in SC, I was craving some southern goodness and after searching on Urbanspoon, we picked Lola's. I didn't realize it had been featured on DD&D until I read the reviews on Yelp.
Lola's is quaint. The restaurant has about 10-15 tables. It's best to get there before 6 if you want to minimize the wait time. When all my friends arrived we ordered. I ordered the jambalaya. It was really flavorful and tasty. The only problem is that the rice was so over cooked and mushy, it resembled something you would spread between bricks, not put on plate. Again it was very tasty, yet mushy or "moggy" in the words of my southern mother.
A friend ordered the read beans and rice of which I had to sample. I've eaten rice with every kind of bean imaginable so I figured this would be good. I mean how can you go wrong with rice and beans. Well Lola's was utterly FLAVORLESS!!! No taste whatsoever.
Could I come back? I guess, but it definitely wouldn't be my first choice.
Side note: unless I missed it, beignets were missing from the menu. What Louisiana, creole/Cajun restaurant doesn't have beignets on the menu?