The valley isn't great for BBQ, but there are plenty of better options out there. To other chains and even the tiny little strip mall joints. Lucille's prices their BBQ on the same level of a Wood Ranch so I was expecting high quality meat, sides, and everything else. Instead, the end product was far far far lower than Famous Dave's (though a dinner at Dave's would have been 30% cheaper for two, and better). If Lucille's was in Mesa Riverview and not the always busy Tempe Marketplace, it would be out of business.
First the sides: The beans were fairly bland (and almost cold), shoestring fries were decent, Mac N Cheese extremely subpar. I had the Beef Brisket sandwich, fiance had the tri tip sandwich. The brisket tasted like Jerkey. Worse then jerkey. I was expecting some tender meat (as brisket should be) not this garbage I could barely bite into. The tri-tip was good enough.
This place was so just so... ugh. For one of the more expensive casual BBQ places in town, it is easily one of the worst.