Normally on Holiday Weekends we stay home as we did over Memorial Day…if we need a long weekend we can take off almost any time we please…it was a great time to catch up on movie(videos) which is what we did when not watching golf, playoff hockey and basketball, and of course Dodger and Angel games…
Donas got in her share of CSI’s, Law and Orders and a TV movie, while I got to finish a book and begin a new one…
And, we ate out for almost every meal except for a Rib Eye steak BBQ’d at home, smothered with crumbled blue cheese and asparagus spears…and a chilled bottle of Chardonnay…
The next day, with a craving for BBQ’d chicken and ribs, we started off for Lucille’s but half way there spotted a joint called Texas BBQ between Sizzler and the Post Office on Raymond Way and decided to eat there…we'd seen the place before and thought we might go there someday...
what a big freakin mistake that was…upon entering a youngish and chubby guy, with a kerchief around his neck and an apron around his pot belly asked if we wanted food to go or to eat there…
we decided to eat there…as he walked away a weather-beaten looking waitress took us to a table…then dropped a menu on us...she left and sat down across the aisle from our table and began eating with the fat guy…the TV show, (which was to our back) was a remodeling type show from the South, I think Texas, and it featured the remodeling of a mobile home! All the while we all could have watched the Lakers and Spurs…
The waitress kept on watching us and finally came over and took our order…we decided to share a combo plate with chicken, ribs, some shredded meat and corn bread...we had no idea it came with hot dog meat cut up in little pieces…oh, and cole slaw in a plastic container like you’d buy at the market…
The ribs had little or no meat on them, had no BBQ taste at all…fortunately, or not, there was ketchup and BBQ sauce on the table…
The corn bread was hard as rock and cold…the shredded meat was fairly good, but not enough to share…the non-BBQ’d hot dogs were cold and ugly…
While we shared this crappy food the two across the aisle looked only a few time at us, it seemed waiting to see when we would fall over dead, throw up or just leave…the bill came to $17, I left $20 on the table and left without saying a word…they didn't say a word and kept on laughing at the TV show...
Lucille's is like Heaven
Texas BBQ could be Hell
3 comments:
How sad! I bet they won't be around for much longer! Lucille's is the way to go! Costs twice as much...but OH so worth it!!!
The hot dogs would have thrown me over the edge. It darn well better say, cut up hot dogs will be in this. I'm sorry it was so crappy!!!! I hate crappy food and I hate crappy service more. I tip on service (To Insure Proper Service)? Maybe ensure? Allison would know.
I am the most sad about the fact that you were prepared for Lucille's and then got crap. If you had been prepared for Don Jose's, it may not have been such a let down!
Gina...ensure: to make sure or certain. insure: to guarantee against loss or harm.
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