Add Lucy’s On the Lake To the List of Austin Restaurants Closing

Another one brought down by the beer virus:

“March kept us open for November, December and January,” Holmes said. But one week of very slow takeout sales proved that a pivot would not be the answer for the restaurant on Lake Travis in the space that was home to the Iguana Grill before Holmes took it over in 2016.

I feel sorry for the folks who have lost their jobs. But when I first went to Lucy’s on the Lake, they had an excellent brunch menu, and a few dinner items I liked. Then they changed the menu: the last time I went to Lucy’s on the Lake (or the Lucy’s on South Congress) there was nothing on the menu I wanted to eat.

I’ve been watching the comments on my local Next Door as well. Usually, in this area, every time a restaurant closes there’s a bunch of people lamenting the closure and saying how wonderful the defunct restaurant was. In the case of LotL, though, there’s a lot of “I miss the Iguana Grill” and “I hope someplace decent goes into that space.”

It always seemed full when we drove by, but a lot of that was probably the lake factor: people don’t care about the food if they can get drinks and sit out by the lake. (See also: The Oasis.)