Starting this week, Lucille’s Smokehouse Bar-B-Que — a chain of restaurants started by a Cal State Long Beach graduate — will celebrate its 25th anniversary by bringing back several fan-favorite menu items and launching a slew of new beverages.
For a limited time, loaded comeback fries, cajun chicken pasta, Mardi Gras chicken and beef ribs for two will join the menu at Lucille’s 19 locations throughout California, Arizona and Nevada, including its two Long Beach locations: one on Second Street and one in the Long Beach Towne Center.
Craig Hofman, who graduated from CSULB in 1973, founded Lucille’s in 1999. Before opening the first location in Long Beach, Craig went on a barbecue tour, which included Texas, Kansas, Tennessee and the Carolinas.
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His father, Harold, started a burger stand in Long Beach in the 1940s. His success eventually grew into Hof’s Hut, a restaurant and bakery with locations in Long Beach, Seal Beach and Torrance…