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| - I've been wanting to try this place forever, but I'm not sure why other than yelpers seem to love it and it is close to the house. However, let me disclose that there is few BBQ restaurants I've been to that I really have loved, so you may not want to listen to me if Lucille's is your bag.
I hadn't eaten anything the day I went here, and a plate of filling BBQ sounded good to me. I wanted to try a few things so I got a combo plate with baby back ribs and the beef ribs. I knew it would be too much food but I figured I could take home what I didn't eat. For sides, I had corn and cole slaw for a tiny bit of vegetables. My husband and I tried the onion strings and he had the pulled pork.
I found the onion strings to lack any sort of discernible onion flavor, which is what I like in onion ring type dishes. It was too much focus on breading, not enough on the sweet onion. However, my husband, who isn't into onion rings, really loved this dish.
The main dishes were okay, nothing I haven't made at home much better. The baby backs were not that tender, but I thought the flavor was good, and I love the vinegar based sauce they have. They were disappointing a little, but compared to another restaurant in the area, like Memphis Championship BBQ, they were a lot better. But the beef ribs were a big disappointment, as if they managed to burn them and make them kind of "charred," but not in a good way. I felt like I was just eating burned crunchy flesh and couldn't get through more than one rib. My husband liked his pulled pork but it wasn't anything he hasn't had better before.
What really impressed us was they have some of their own "Lucille's beers," that included a Hefeweizen, which was delicious! While our dinner wasn't impressive, we would come back for this and the wonderful unsweetened iced teas. So we're more than excited to do Happy Hour here, but I'm not sure we'll come back for a normal dinner.
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