HOT ROLLS FOR THE MUSEUM DISTRICT 
A passerby notes there’s construction going on at 5512 La Branch, around the corner from the Children’s Museum. Going in at that address: an establishment named after the proprietors’ late great grandmother, culinary entrepreneur and hot-roll-mix pioneer Lucille Bishop Smith, who on the restaurant’s Facebook page is shown in photos feeding her creations to grocery-store shoppers and boxing champ Joe Louis and greeting Martin Luther King. Lucille’s, scheduled to open this month, promises to feature Southern cooking “with infusions of European gourmet techniques.” [Facebook via Swamplot inbox] Photo: LoopNet
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Looking forward to checking this place out.
Please don’t infuse anything foreign into Southern cuisine. Stick with the basics, and you’ll do fine. Start infusing, confusing, inflating, conflating, and you’ll go the way of Textile.
Eric, I would argue that all good Southern food is directly because of foreign infusing. I think what you really mean is, don’t be pretentious foodie hipster “look how cool/unique/creative” spot, we will see how it ends up. I look forward to trying it out.
Please be affordable! I want to dine out without having to eat ramen noodles for lunch the next day.
Great location to tap into the day crowds (museum patrons, Hermann Park visitors, nearby church-goers)- but it remains to be seen whether this will draw a night-time crowd. I’m hoping this will infuse a little night life into this area.