Pizza Lucé

This is a review only for the wings. Love their pizza, but have not had it at this location, I am sure it is first rate pie as usual. However, they tote their wings as award winning and the 24 hour joint down the street clowns them.

One star for the building and atmosphere which are very well presented. One star for the sauce that goes on the wings because honestly, the texture appearance and flavor profile of the sauce is pretty stellar. But the greatest sauce in the world cannot save chicken wings that are cooked improperly

Chicken wings are small portions of meat wrapped with tendons and veins around bones and thick skin. You aren't cooking breasts or thighs here, you MUST cook them until crispy. Once you do this, the veins and tendons render and the skin turns from a disgusting rubbery case into a crispy texture layer that makes the wing delicious. Being that the meat is on the bone and the entire piece is wrapped in skin, the meat will stay juicy even after it is fully cooked. Seems odd that I have to explain these basics? Well, the wings were the same both times and they were requested to be extra crispy.

I have been to every Pizza Luce, even Duluth!  This is easily the best location.  

Pizza Luce is for fans of gourmet pizza, diners with food restrictions (almost everything can be made vegan and gluten-free) and anyone who appreciates fantastic food at a reasonable price!  To me, the barbecue mock duck pizza (the Rustler) is the most flavorful pizza in town.  

The staff at this Luce seems to be more agreeable and cooperative than anywhere else, and I've never had to wait for a table.  Great place!!

It's all about the Wrangler. It's a pizza. You must try it. But don't try a piece of mine, because I will fight you. Seriously.

This is only one out of two restaurants that my husband and I can both truly agree on going to. (The other one is Town Hall Tap.) We get the same thing every time. A large Wrangler. It never gets old. It's basically a bbq chicken pizza, but it's so much more - they add mushrooms, banana peppers, house bbq sauce, onions, green peppers... Oh so good.

The service we've had at the Richfield Luce has been absolutely perfect - friendly, prompt and efficient. Love it.

This new location is actually quite nice inside, it feels a bit more like a "family friendly" restaurant than the other locations I've been to. That said, there's also quite a lot of families here (which is great, if you have kids - it seems like they have coloring stuff, etc available) so it's always quite a lot louder/more full of children than other Luce locations, so don't go expecting a particularly romantic/relaxing dinner. They have a party room in the basement which they use as an "overflow" room sometimes on the weekends - if the host gives you the option of waiting 20 minutes for a table or immediate seating in the basement (she didn't sell this option very well... we asked her if she was taking us to a dungeon based on her description) choose the basement party room! It was quieter and actually quite nice. There was a nice big TV down there too, which they said we could set to whatever we wanted.

As other reviewers have noted, they've always got a great beer selection.

One downside to this Luce location is the parking. The lot gets full quickly on weekends so you may have to use their valet or hunt down street parking...