Lucille's Smokehouse Bar-B-Que

Farr Adel

NOT RECOMMENDED - AVOID!! TRIBBLE/HORRIBLE experience due to extreme- and exaggerate amount of sweetness and added sugar in everything we ordered!! That’s insane!! We came to this Lucille's Smokehouse BBQ at 2550 Park Ave. Tustin CA 92782 for celebrating a friend. The menu was clean and had some nice pictures showing different meals. As expensive as this restaurant is, the menu could however been modern and digitized with pictures and even animation of signature meals on smart tablets or on the table. The staff were nice, polite, and helpful. The first thing that was served was warm baked bread biscuits with butter (might been margarin). But breads were sweet and were topped with sugar!! Even the so-called “butter” was sweet. Had never expected that! We ordered several different meals such as Southern Fried Chicken ($22), Hot-Honey Salmon ($27) and BBQ Two meat Combo ($36), and so-called Fresh Strawberry Lemonade ($5.50 each). See pictures. The amount of salt and sugar/sweetness in salmon was EXTREMELY HIGH as well as presence of fructose and glucose/sweetness in salmon - VERY HIGH! The salmon was also overcooked! A very hot spicy sweet sauce was poured all over the salmon, made it impossible for an old person to tolerate! Non of us could eat the salmon as the it was so spicy! The salmon fillet was very small compare to the price of the dish, $27! The salmon was literally drained in that horrible souse! As this kind of souse are not serves separately at side of the dish is sign of unprofessionalism and careless and irresponsible chef! We complained about that salmon and after a while waiting, they brought only the end part of the the fillet which was overcooked and burned! Although all the vegetables in the previous salmon were drained in that horrible spicy hon sweet sauce as well, they only replaced the salmon and did not replace the whole meal/dish (and in the bill, they added the full price of extra salmon meal, Hot-Honey Salmon (another $27)) and then cleared it as “Care and Value”, rather than not charge the customer at all. Another sign of unprofessionalism, stingy and carelessness management! The amount of salt and sugar/sweetness in “BBQ Two meat Combo”, the side beans, as well as all sauces were EXTREMELY HIGH! Bothe the chicken and the beef were also overcooked! Overcooking makes food harder to digest and metabolize, and secondly, charred and burnt foods contain carcinogenic substances. Cooking carbohydrate rich starchy foods at high temperatures results in the formation of a chemical called acrylamide! The amount of added sugar in “so-called" Fresh Strawberry Lemonade was EXTREMELY HIGH! The glass that the lemonades were served in were very large. I’m concerning about the consequences for those customers who become consumed with so much sugar in their drink! That’s insane! You guys at this Lucille's Smokehouse have no idea how salmon should be seasoned nor cooked! Send your chef to Scandinavia (spec. Norway or Sweden) so he can educate himself and learn how salmon should be prepared/seasoned. Sugar, spicy honey and so much salt have never been right combination with fresh salmon fillet. You can buy almost one-pound fresh salmon fillet at Trader Joe’s for $9 (see picture), to compare it with $27 for a small piece fillet that is served at this restaurant and with all those horrible experiences we had, make me never set my foot in this place and will tell and share our nightmare experiences at this place with everyone we care about! The amount of salt in vegetables and fries, mashed potatoes, and even in all sauces were EXTREMELY HIGH! The mash potato had garlic in it which was another bad surprise! My final opinion and conclusion: By eating at this this Lucille's Smokehouse BBQ, you put your health in dangerous and high risk as this restaurant don’t care about serving their customer with so much sugar and salt!! Everything we ordered was full of sugar and salt!! We spend over$150 (tip included) for our SALT/SUGAR-meals at this place!!! UNACCEPTABLE!!

JJ Tomlin

The sides are surprisingly the best thing here, and I am from Tennessee so I know my BBQ! We had the brisket (fatty and chewy) with mashed potatoes and Brussel sprouts (actually very good). Alabama white sauce is delicious as well. We had a gift card but if it was up to us, we would never voluntarily go back for date night lol.

wally weed

Smells are amazing. Sandwiches and burgers were great. Excellent portions. The Beef Brisket left something to be desired. Pricey and fat filled. Got 1 cup of coffee. No refill. Would have been 5 stars.

Nadalyn McInnis

Food was pretty good. Garlic potatoes had a great taste, I just wish it would have been a little hotter. Biscuits and Apple butter was very tasty. Smoke babyback rib had great flavor. Wish they could have been served hot too. Didn't care for the fried catfish, but shrimp was good. Overall food was good.