Fun at Lucy's, 2nd Grazing Congress Outing

Boy, did we have a fun time tonight at Lucy's Fried Chicken!  There were a total of 6 of us.  We ate outside in the picnic area which was very nice & cool.  Our waitress named Sam was great.  She saw our critique sheets and said "are y'all taking notes?  Let me start over."  The only problem with the place is the parking, I circled the block several times until I found a spot along the street by the catholic school.  Two ladies braved the HEB parking lot even with signs warning that vehicles would be towed if left there.  Luckily, both the cars were still there after our dinner.  We counted the actual spots for Lucy's and there are 8, 9 if you count the handicap spot so like a lot of downtown Austin places, parking can be a challenge.  It was worth the trouble though to find a parking spot. 
We had no wait time and were told to sit wherever we liked.  We picked a table in the shade and under the fan.  Mary, who is new to Austin, joined us and bought a Lucy's t shirt (see picture below) as her cat is named Lucy.  Mary, it was great to have you join us and I hope you will keep coming.  Also Debbie H. joined us for the first time, welcome Debbie.  Last but not least my stepson Jonathan came and joined us for dinner.
Lucy's had some unique cocktails, Mary and I had the Juicy Lucy which was a watermelon margarita, very good but very strong!  Gina tried and liked the Donkey Show and Debbie had a Front Porch Tea.  Jonathan drank a Texas 512 IPA beer. 
Now on to the food.  Everybody raved about the food.  I ordered a bucket of fried chicken for myself, Jonathan & Gina.  The menu says it will feed 4 but I brought more than half the bucket home to Kenny so it was a large bucket and the chicken was very very good.  The two sides I tried were mexican coke sweet potatoes (as good as they sound) and grilled smashed potatoes (which were potatoes smashed flat and then grilled).  They were also delicious.  I tried the fried deviled egg and it was good too.  I guess you can fry anything and it will taste good.  We had to try the pie also so we tried two out of the five.  The lime pie (lime custard) was my favorite and it was very tart.  The shoofly (oatmeal strudel with molasses) pie was good too and reminded us of a pumpkin pie.  Enough from me, here are the other comments from the group.
Jonathan said the wait time and the waitress were good. He had the fried chicken and said it was great with an awesome taste and flavor.  When asked if he would go back, he said "why not?"  He was the only one of us that could remember what our waitress said her name was.  Maybe her age had something to do with that!
Mary said the place was fun and clean, that our waitress was very nice and funny and that the wait time was perfect.  She had the vegetable skewers (she was the winner for healthy choices).  She said the skewers were delicious but could have had more vegetables on them.  The veggies were grilled perfectly and they had a great vinaigrette dressing.  There was a grilled cactus pad at the bottom of the plate and she said it tasted like cactus :).  Mary will go back there again.
Teresa said the waitress was very nice but she was scared of the food.  She ordered cornbread dressing and grilled corn on the cob.  I did not know this but she does not like any meat on the bone and definitely was not fond of the fried chicken gizzards or fried chicken.  The grilled corn was too spicy for her with cajun spices.  She will not go back.  Sorry Teresa but you were great company and a good sport!  More reviews to come from Gina.
Debbie was our "steak night" tester and she had the Tuesday night steak special.  She said it was good and had great flavors in the steak and potatoes.  She liked their unique drink selections.  She commented "flys were the only problem but what do you expect outdoors?"
Overall it was a very fun night with new and old friends.  Our next outing will be June 5.  Time and place to be announced.  See pictures below and in the next blog.