A former drag-queen heaven is getting smoked.
Myron Mixon, the star of cable TV’s “BBQ Pitmasters,” is taking over the former Lucky Cheng’s at 24 First Ave. on the Lower East Side.
The restaurant has 9,000 square feet on three levels, and plans are already underway to add special barbecue smokers to provide those authentic Southern tastes and smells.
The building is owned by Lucky’s proprietor, Hayne Suthon, and her family.
Suthon has already reopened Lucky Cheng’s in its new Times Square digs, where she says she has been able to attract “amazing talent” for the outlandish transvestite cabaret show.
Night-life king Alex Picken and colleague Michael Sottile repped Suthon in the Lower East Side deal, in which she is getting a blended rent and key money. “It was very important to me to keep a restaurant tenant, but we didn’t want a bottle-service tenant,” said Suthon in a nod to her neighbors.
Mixon, a good ol’ Georgia-based barbecue chef, cookbook author and star of the Destination America reality show, took part in the Madison Park Big Apple Barbecue event this past June under his sauce and cooking school brand, Jack’s Old South.
Mixon but did not immediately respond to a request for comment about the new city hot spot.