"NOLO’s strikes a balance between buzzy North Loop restaurant and cozy neighborhood cafe. It’s especially popular for brunch, dishing up salted caramel sticky buns, breakfast fried rice, and chipotle sweet potato hash. There’s also a reliable, unpretentious dinner menu of pasta, wood-fired pizzas, rice bowls, and entrees like red curry seafood stew and pork belly al pastor. This spot also accepts orders for takeout." - Stacy Brooks
"NOLO’s strikes a balance between buzzy North Loop restaurant and cozy neighborhood cafe, dishing up weekend brunch specials like salted caramel sticky buns, burrata with cantaloupe and prosciutto, red chili chilaquiles, and breakfast fried rice. Or go for the wood-fired breakfast pizza." - Justine Jones
"NOLO’s happy hour, served Monday through Friday from 3 p.m. to 5:30 p.m., is comfortable and chic all at once. Grab a $10 espresso martini or a $5 draft beer, and pair it with comfort food snacks like turkey meatloaf sliders, yuca fry poutine, and focaccia cheese bread. Throw back a wine shot for just $2." - Alex Lodner
"NOLO’s strikes a balance between buzzy North Loop restaurant and cozy neighborhood cafe. It’s especially popular for brunch, dishing up salted caramel sticky buns, burrata with cantaloupe and prosciutto, and red chili chilaquiles, not to mention breakfast pizza — but also offers a reliable, unpretentious dinner menu of pasta; entrees like coconut curry seafood stew and sea bass a la plancha; kale Caesars and cobb salads; and small plates." - Justine Jones, Alex Lodner
"Nolo’s Kitchen & Bar are such experts at comfort food that they literally have “comfort all day long” spelled out not once, but twice, on the building’s exterior. Get the serotonin pumping after feasting on the cheddar cornmeal waffle with buttermilk fried chicken and the extra-large cinnamon sticky buns with salted caramel sauce. Located in a former hardware store, the rooftop has views of converted warehouses and factories in the surrounding North Loop neighborhood. There’s also a rooftop bar where you can challenge friends to a game of foosball, but if you just want to curl up in a ball and nap after a giant walleye sandwich, that’s totally understandable. " - stacy brooks