Lucille's Smokehouse Barbeque

10/24/11

Lucille’s Smokehouse Bar-B-Que brings Southern barbeque to L

by oc food diva at Citysearch

Lucille’s Onion Straws is a mountain of irresistible buttermilk battered fresh onions, seasoned and deep-fried and served with their own BBQ ranch dipping sauce. These onion straws are amazing! These are fried like a good fried chicken – salt, pepper, flour. If you can get the right combination, the flavor is addictive. The portion is just right for 2 people to share while your barbeque plates are being prepared. Thumbs up, way up!

The BBQ Two Meat Combo Platter is your choice of two of Lucille’s best meats: BBQ tri tip, BBQ half chicken, baby back ribs, St. Louis ribs, beef ribs, spicy hot link, pulled pork, rib tips or beef brisket. In this case, BBQ tri tip and beef brisket were chosen along with creamy cheese grits and shoestring fries. The tri tip was very smoky and tender. You can tell that the tri-tip was smoked to perfection by the smoke ring on the meat. The brisket was extremely tender and juicy, turning into almost pot roast level consistency. The flavor had just the right amounts of smoke and salt. The cheese grits were fantastic – creamy, cheesy, and a bit of a kick from the jalapenos! The shoestring fries were okay. The coating on the fries tasted a little weird, almost metallic. Thumbs up!

St. Louis Spare Ribs are lean, juicy pork ribs, seasoned with Lucille's special rub, slowly smoked, then grilled and basted with their homemade BBQ sauce. Southern braised greens and sweet potato fries were chosen as the sides. The ribs had a rich, smoky flavor with a sweet and spicy BBQ sauce. The ribs were a little tough – maybe cooked too long or too hot making them dry. But the sweet potato fries were cooked just right with a nice combo of sweet and salty. The greens had all the bitterness cooked out of them leaving only the base flavor of the leaves. Thumbs up!

The Snickers Ice Cream Pie is chopped Snickers bars mixed with vanilla bean ice cream in a crisp, chocolate cookie crust and served with homemade caramel and chocolate sauces. This dessert was like a Cold Stone creation in a pie crust. The chopped up snickers bars were minced and blended perfectly into the ice cream. The chocolate cookie crust helps keep the pie together and helps you scrape up the caramel and chocolate sauce. Thumbs up, way up!

11/24/08

Great bbq (& I'm from Texas) - really nice wait staff

by chefvj at Citysearch

I LOVE Lucille's BBQ (bb ribs are yummy!!)...I've never had a less than great meal here and always try to save room for dessert (especially the cobbler). The staff is very very nice & always very accomodating. It's a fun place to go with a group too-

• Pros: Great BBQ - really big menu...
• Cons: sometimes a bit of a wait (but well worth it)!

10/09/08

horrible food bad service

by mixsprit2332 at Citysearch

the food was served cold after we waited 45 minutes. the waitress was rude and smelled like cigarettes. the meat was dry and over-cooked, it was too busy and i felt like i was rushed out the door before i was done eating the horrible food.

• Pros: the water was fresh
• Cons: food was burnt service sucked