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| - I think the best way, for me, to describe Lucille's is "It's Pretty Good."
Let me preface, though. My mothers half of the family is super-country. I was raised by my grandma for my first 10 years of life, so I like to think I know how southern dishes are supposed to taste. They are literally from a town, in Kentucky, named Turkey Creek. How back woods is that? Therefore, my taste for Southern cooking is fine tuned, but I'm trying to loosen the reins a little bit while typing this review.
The restaurant is cute, the service is fine, and while the food is nothing to write home about, it's good. The hot towels at the end of our meal, were honestly the highlight for me. They were accommodating to our party of 20, and I don't think anyone had anything necessarily negative to say.
For me, it was just missing SOMETHING. The meat wasn't as tender or flavorful as I would anticipate from a self-proclaimed "smokehouse." The sauces were just alright. I'm comfortable with saying, they dropped the ball on their cornbread recipe. Those biscuits, though, they get a 10/10. I also thought everyone's flavored teas were pretty cute with the fruit floating in them.
Although it's a chain, I wish there were something that stood out to me to make me say, "We should go to Lucille's." - Nothing crazy bad. I've just had better BBQ, in the valley, and at a shyer price point.
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