Park Hill’s Lucina is an undeniably fun restaurant. Not like ordering-out-of-aclown’s-mouth fun or, ahem, watching-cliff-divers-plunge-off-a-waterfall fun. Instead, Lucina’s particular brand of amusement for diners is allowing them to try—and delight in—something they may have never eaten before. It’s a trust fall sort of fun, where you’re nervous and giddy because you don’t quite know what’s about to happen, but you have a hunch it will be exhilarating.
Lucina’s namesake is chef-owner Erasmo (Ras) Casiano’s mother, who made sure that everyone who entered her home
