Fillmore Farmer
Full Fledged Farker
So the wife and I decided to have dinner out and try a new restaurant that opened-up not far from us, Lucille's BBQ
The waitress starts by telling us that they have the BEST BBQ around…oh really? LOL. We split a salad and then did a 3-meat deal….brisket, beef ribs and chicken. She also tells us that most their meats are smoked right on location for about 24 hours. I asked her what temperature they’re cooking at and she has no idea….never got back to me about that either. When I do a whole packer cut brisket at 235F it’s done in about 12.5 to 14 hours….how the heck are they going 24 hours…she says the average is about 23 hours…what are they cooking at, 190F?
The ribs were good, they had a really thick built-up glaze with a sauce that was almost too sweet while also lacking a vinegar kick. To their credit it did have a strong smoked flavor, you can tell the meat had done some serious time in the smoky bowels of a smoker…it had a heavy pit smell…not bad but a bit overpowering. These were the first-ever ribs that I didn’t add sauce to, the glaze was 1/16th thick and almost gummy…but I’m big on flavor so I didn’t mind.
The brisket was just plain wrong…it was over-cooked, chewy, dry and had very little flavor. In fact, it tasted so much different then my brisket that we figured it was tri-tip that was overcooked since I’ve heard tri-tip will be dry and tasteless if you go past rare/medium. I've had better cardboard! :icon_smile_tongue:
The chicken was pretty good….it was moist and had nice flavor on the outside…but the inside was merely the moist flavor that comes from brining. Funny how we can dissect food once we’ve learned how to cook them. All in all I’d say it was fair to good….but I’d put Wood Ranch well above this place.
Then get this…the bill comes and we slap a fresh $100 bill into the little black folder. The waitress comes to pick it up…and then comes back in about a minute and tells us that we forgot to put the credit card inside. We tell her that we put a $100 bill in there and she briskly walks back to her register and frantically looks around before coming back to tell us that there was no cash and that we must be wrong…can you imagine? The wife and I check around the table, she’s looking around her register and NOTHING…it’s the Bermuda triangle…and I’m absolutely certain I saw the C-note in the folder…it was there!
The waitress gets a bit more assertive with assuring us that there is no way we had put cash in the folder and the wife is rearing-up to refuse to pay another $100…it’s getting VERY uncomfortable. I suggest she ask some of the staff if they saw any money on the ground and she disappears…moments later I see her approach another table, kneel by a gal sitting at the table…and suddenly the gal opens her purse and gives our waitress a $100 bill…..
Turns-out a bus-boy saw the $100 bill falling in the air near that gals table…so he picked it up and asked the girl if it was her $100 bill….to which she says “yes” and proceeds to put it in her purse. Yeah, what the FarK?....this gal is in her late 30’s or early 40’s….she just straight-up lied to the bus boy and took the $100 cash. I could tell she was embarrassed but she played it off like it was just a misunderstanding: how is that a misunderstanding? Needless to say our waitress was incredibly apologetic but we reassured her that from her perspective it must have seemed like we were lying. The waitress said that they did look at the video surveillance and they did see the C-note flying in the air after is somehow slipped out of the folder…so she assured us it would have been cleared-up but I’m disinclined to believe that.
So there’s my adventure to Lucille’s....
The waitress starts by telling us that they have the BEST BBQ around…oh really? LOL. We split a salad and then did a 3-meat deal….brisket, beef ribs and chicken. She also tells us that most their meats are smoked right on location for about 24 hours. I asked her what temperature they’re cooking at and she has no idea….never got back to me about that either. When I do a whole packer cut brisket at 235F it’s done in about 12.5 to 14 hours….how the heck are they going 24 hours…she says the average is about 23 hours…what are they cooking at, 190F?
The ribs were good, they had a really thick built-up glaze with a sauce that was almost too sweet while also lacking a vinegar kick. To their credit it did have a strong smoked flavor, you can tell the meat had done some serious time in the smoky bowels of a smoker…it had a heavy pit smell…not bad but a bit overpowering. These were the first-ever ribs that I didn’t add sauce to, the glaze was 1/16th thick and almost gummy…but I’m big on flavor so I didn’t mind.
The brisket was just plain wrong…it was over-cooked, chewy, dry and had very little flavor. In fact, it tasted so much different then my brisket that we figured it was tri-tip that was overcooked since I’ve heard tri-tip will be dry and tasteless if you go past rare/medium. I've had better cardboard! :icon_smile_tongue:
The chicken was pretty good….it was moist and had nice flavor on the outside…but the inside was merely the moist flavor that comes from brining. Funny how we can dissect food once we’ve learned how to cook them. All in all I’d say it was fair to good….but I’d put Wood Ranch well above this place.
Then get this…the bill comes and we slap a fresh $100 bill into the little black folder. The waitress comes to pick it up…and then comes back in about a minute and tells us that we forgot to put the credit card inside. We tell her that we put a $100 bill in there and she briskly walks back to her register and frantically looks around before coming back to tell us that there was no cash and that we must be wrong…can you imagine? The wife and I check around the table, she’s looking around her register and NOTHING…it’s the Bermuda triangle…and I’m absolutely certain I saw the C-note in the folder…it was there!
The waitress gets a bit more assertive with assuring us that there is no way we had put cash in the folder and the wife is rearing-up to refuse to pay another $100…it’s getting VERY uncomfortable. I suggest she ask some of the staff if they saw any money on the ground and she disappears…moments later I see her approach another table, kneel by a gal sitting at the table…and suddenly the gal opens her purse and gives our waitress a $100 bill…..
Turns-out a bus-boy saw the $100 bill falling in the air near that gals table…so he picked it up and asked the girl if it was her $100 bill….to which she says “yes” and proceeds to put it in her purse. Yeah, what the FarK?....this gal is in her late 30’s or early 40’s….she just straight-up lied to the bus boy and took the $100 cash. I could tell she was embarrassed but she played it off like it was just a misunderstanding: how is that a misunderstanding? Needless to say our waitress was incredibly apologetic but we reassured her that from her perspective it must have seemed like we were lying. The waitress said that they did look at the video surveillance and they did see the C-note flying in the air after is somehow slipped out of the folder…so she assured us it would have been cleared-up but I’m disinclined to believe that.
So there’s my adventure to Lucille’s....
