. . . "4"^^ . "3"^^ . "2011-05-01T00:00:00"^^ . "4"^^ . "I love the name Lola. If I could convince my husband to name one of our way-down-the-line, future children, Lola, I would. Not because of this restaurant, but because I like the name. And I like the song.\n\nBut I digress.\n\nWhile me and the hubs were leaving the outlet mall after working up an appetite from shopping, we were at a loss for where to go to lunch. As we are at the stop light in front of Lola's, which is located next to that old Holsum Bakery (you've seen it- bright neon lights on Charleston, with a large clock), I made a fast turn into the parking lot.\n\nWe walked into Lola's and its a very small, quaint little place that has that has that feel of \"this could be either really good or really bad\". Luckily for us, it was good!\n\nOur waiter, totally forgot his name (Frankie?) was really nice and gave us plenty of time to decide what we wanted.\n\nWe decided to share a crab cake appetizer and the Bronzed Catfish and Grits. Me, being from the Midwest, I've never had grits and was very excited to try them!\n\nOn the menu, it says there is a $5 charge for sharing, but it's just there to discourage people from doing that all the time, so there really isn't a charge- hooray!\n\nOMG- the Bronzed Catfish & Grits- Fresh bronzed Catfish served over Smoked Gouda Grits with an Andouille Sausage and Mushroom Ragout. Totally DELISH! WOW! \n\nThe seasonings on the catfish will blow you away- perfect amount, just a tiny bit of spice (if you don't like spicy, you will love this as there isn't really any spice at all), cooked flaky. The grits, ohhh man, the grits. These gouda grits are so yummy! creamy and have great flavor! I don't like sausage (hey- get that 6th grade humor outta here! ;) ) but this was very good. However, I don't remember a mushroom ragout... maybe it was mixed in?\n\nI would layer my fork with catfish, grits & sausage and smile as i was chewing, it was that good.\n\nThe crab cake appetizer was good, but unfortunate for us, we asked for it to come out with the catfish & grits and the catfish & grits totally took over and we ignored the crab cake.\n\nWe would love to come back and try the crawfish... we hear Friday's are the day to enjoy them!\n\nWe will be back... L-L-Lola, L-L-Lola!"^^ . "3"^^ .