As the season swings into fall, lots of new items show up on restaurant menus. Oysters are back after beds were closed following Hurricane Ike, Sweet potatoes, pecans, persimmons and satsumas are on sale at farmers markets and making their debut on local menus. Comfort food, from braised duck to green gumbo is appearing as specials, supplying welcome fuel for chilly evenings. The change in the season is marked on our calendar by the Independent’s Fall Edition of our Restaurant Guide. In a new format this year, we’ve picked our 10 Top Restaurants in Acadiana, (it wasn’t easy) and created a listing of 101 Dining Destinations (we believe in a little lagniappe). Look for the online edition tomorrow evening, or pick up the paper Wednesday. If you’re headed to New Orleans anytime soon, the Times-Picayune’sFall Dining Guide came out this weekend. Take a look at TP restaurant reviewer Brett Anderson’s recommendations for the best places to eat in New Orleans.
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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