Drink of the Week: Dixie Sweet Tea at Lucille's Smokehouse

Edwin Goei • OC Weekly • October 14, 2011
I was with a bunch of visiting businessmen from Texas who had just come back from Lucille's Smokehouse, and what they had to say wasn't kind. “It was good,” one them said, “but it wasn't barbecue.” The rest of them nodded. ] If it were a group of...
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