The Oklahoma Breakfast Beat!: Lucille's, The Biker Buffet and BJ's Retirement Breakfast

Well I must apologize to everyone for taking an extra week to get this review posted, it has been far to long since our last post. I'm not really sure what happened, but nonetheless I didn't get it done until this morning.

Last week was a pretty cool week when it comes to our little blog. First of all it was in celebration of BJ's retirement which officially started 3 days later on October. In memory of that special occasion we took a longer drive than we had yet to do and head west out to the tiny town of Mulhall about 20 miles west of Stillwater to try out the Biker Buffet at self-declared world famous Lucille's. We also didn't leave until about 8:30 which for those unindoctrinated readers is usually about the time we are finishing breakfast. We did this for a reason though as it allowed us to have our largest group yet go with us for this celebratory breakfast. Yes, most of the attendees think we are borderline nuts for going at our usual 7am time when it is more appropriate to be fast asleep in bed.

Now there is a bit of a story to Lucille's that makes it so famous. The first and maybe least important is that it is located in the town of Mulhall which is pretty much been wiped off the map a couple of times by some serious tornados (an F4), leaving it full of temporary homes and trailers. Lucille's is named after the daughter of the founder of Mulhall and who was deemed the first "Cowgirl" as a member of the Congress of the Rough Riders and Ropers in the early 1900's and who died in a car accident in 1940. Lucille's the restaurant has also had some tragic events the culmination of which was in 2009 when there original building, an old bank building, was gutted by a fire. Not to be kept down though Lucille's reopened in a new, larger building across the street in 2011 which was the location of our breakfast last week.

The original Lucille's across the street from the new building.

So joining BJ and I for last week's breakfast was his wife and parasitologist extraordinaire Eileen, my resident mates Mee Ja and Nick, and our friend Brendan, a 4th year vet student.

From left to right: BJ, Brendan, Nick, me, Mee Ja, Eileen.

Well enough of the sentimental crap, our blog wouldn't be complete without our breakfast review. This was relatively easy to figure out since we all got the same thing, the Biker Buffet an all you can eat filling of sausage, bacon, eggs, french toast, biscuits and gravy, seasoned fried potatoes and lots of coffee (of course)!

All of the food was quite good, but the consensus was that the potatoes and french toast were definitely the highlights. The French Toast in particular was quite amazing, served fresh and fluffy with a solid helping of powdered sugar. Though the $9.99/per person was higher than we normally go for it was definitely worth it for the amount of food you got and for this celebration!

The goods!

And overall.......

Food: 4.5 of 5 pancakes (with a 5 of 5 for the French Toast on it's own)
Cost: $$$$ (out of 5)
Overall: 4 of 5 cups of coffee
Breakfast compatriots: 5 of 5

Overall, this was probably our most fun week out with a great group of friends and lots of quality food so on that alone it should get a 5 out 5. However, when comparing it to the rest of our reviews it is going to be brought down slightly by the higher than usual price, and while the food was definitely of high quality we all agreed that it rated about a 4 out of 5, with a special first place 5 out of 5 specifically for the French Toast! The beauty of the buffet though is the flexibility to stock up on your favorite dish which can't help but raise the grade.