Paul Gary spent three years scouring Lafayette for a taste of what he calls “real barbecue,” the kind of smoked meat he grew up on in Oklahoma. Finally, he gave up looking and started cooking--the result is 2Paul’s Radically Urban Barbecue, which opened its doors last Thursday. His wife, author Marilyn Fournet Adams, says they spent a year and a half coming up with the concept, which fuses west Texas dry rubbed, slow smoked pork and beef with Louisiana basics like Cajun rice dressing, Thai spiced cole slaw, and homemade giant chocolate chip cookies. The couple has transformed the old CC’s in the Autumwood Place shopping center at the intersection of Johnston St. and South College into a casual restaurant. The menu is barbecue joint simple: a handful of smoked meat plates, sandwiches, salads and sides, with one welcome addition, the Radical Rita margarita, which is a natural pairing with the spicy smoked meat. At 59, Marilyn says most of her friends are getting ready to retire, while she and her husband have started on a new adventure. They’ve been so slammed at lunch they’ve been running out of ribs. “We keep doubling what we cooked the day before,” she says. “We’ll get it right soon. We’ve never run a restaurant before.”
2Pauls is open daily for lunch, Monday-Saturday for dinner. Call 232-1181 for more information.
There will soon be a whole lot of shakin’ going on at Benny’s Sportshack Supplement Depot, a new concept by Opelousas native Benny Nele. Located at 2002 Johnston St., the supplement shop, smoothie bar and café, featuring hot off the press paninis and wraps, plans to open in late May.
Philip deMahy Sr., a once respected New Iberia ad exec, was sentenced May 2 to spend the next two years (he faced up to 100 years) in a state penitentiary after state and federal investigators found dozens of images depicting children engaged in lewd sexual acts on his personal computer.
This year’s Cool Town issue is all about people who are not native to South Louisiana but made a conscious decision to be here, to be among us, to participate in our culture and contribute to it.
A shelved ordinance transferring $200,000 from a northside drainage project to a south Lafayette development may not break any laws, but it stinks to high heaven.
An effort to restore a shuttered dancehall and document other vacant or razed honky-tonks could serve as a model for saving an endangered species of entertainment.
Lafayette’s gene pool has been host to a long line of eccentric characters who have blurred the lines between crazy, genius, disturbed and curiously entertaining.
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