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| - I have been coming here off and on for some years and it's always been decent but it seems like in recent years they have stepped their food game way up. Now it's not just decent but grrrrrreat! And this is coming from someone (me) who generally isn't big on "going out for brunch" (always crowds, noisy, I can make pancakes at home, etc.) and thinks bacon belongs in two crisp little strips next to scrambled eggs on a breakfast plate once a month or so rather than chocolate dipped, on everything, every day. Did I mention that the pecan crusted bacon here is just about the best thing ever next to kittens? That the tortilla soup is better than most Mexican restaurants? The reuben is completely scratch made and has a sauce that doesn't taste like any Russian dressing I'm familiar with but man was it good, even if its name should maybe be Rudolph rather than Reuben. They have a very impressive pastry case as well. The icing on the cake is the super-hip servers who look like they would give you the Portlandia thousand-yard bored stare but are actually really nice, engaging, helpful, and interested in serving you.
Now yes it is small and crowded. Your odds of getting a table are much better if you show up in ones and twos rather than fives and sixes (or just go on a weekday when everyone else is at work). And the menu is a bit changeable (for example, they have different things on the weekend than they do the rest of the week). So I recommend looking at the menu on the web and on the Facebook before you go down there, and having a backup choice picked out if they don't happen to have the mac and cheese that day or whatever. This shouldn't be hard as it's all good stuff. Also, don't plan on asking for a lot of substitutions - this isn't your local diner. But other than that, by all means, go to Lucky's. And eat some bacon. Mmmm, bacon.
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