It does not try to be everything to everybody. Manager Doug Knoll displays art by local artists, including Diane Rey, Ben Brein and Adam Kemp. He uses live entertainment on weekends to attract a college-age crowd. The restaurant is artsy and appropriately located in a historic building. The old brick and wooden floors were retained in the decor.
Ceilings are high and open.
There are white tablecloths under glass and large, white, cloth napkins. JZ says she likes the way Lola's keeps tall wooden pepper grinders on each table. They do away with that awful business of eating a nice meal with your coat or jacket hanging over the back of your chair. Lola's is marking its fourth anniversary in Grand Forks during October. The Italian restaurant was opened here by Doug and Ralph Knoll and chef Kim Holmes in September 1996.