Lafayette’s newest downtown sushi restaurant, Bonsai, will be hosting its Grand Opening this Saturday. The event actually kicks off this week, as the restaurant opens its doors for lunch Monday-Friday. To entice raw fish aficionados, owner Paul Le is offering half price sushi rolls at both lunch and dinner. Saturday, he’ll greet customers with the latest thing in raw fish — nude women. “We’ll have a sushi model on the bar,” he says. The model, who will be lying on Bonsai’s sleek white bar, won’t be wearing much more than raw fish, and customers can nibble their dinner right off of her ribcage. Fittingly, proceeds from Hope Shots from the bar and donations will go to local breast cancer organizations.
David Calhoun and Elizabeth “EB” Brooks are the first two employees of Lafayette Central Park Inc., the nonprofit charged with turning Lafayette Consolidated Government’s 100-acre Johnston Street Horse Farm property into a passive public park. Calhoun was named executive director, and Brooks is director of planning and design.
At Thursday's State of the Economy luncheon, LEDA President and CEO Gregg Gothreaux said PXP has already quietly hired 180 people for its Broussard expansion.
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.
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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