Well, dreaming of fish tacos anyway. The best place to eat them is with your feet in the sand of the beach at Santa Monica. The second best place may well be the bright mango-yellow taco stand on the corner of Vermilion and Johnston streets, in Lafayette. The Taco Sisters, Molly and Katy Richard have been dreaming of opening a restaurant for 24 years. When Katy moved back to Lafayette recently, they finally decided to make the dream come true.
The sisters smoke fresh Gulf fish. Albacore tuna and wahoo are on the menu today, as well as chicken, pork, brisket cooked in adobo sauce, and down the road shrimp and oysters. The smoked meat is served as a soft taco, over a salad or on a poboy, all dressed with a fresh combo of spring greens, chopped apples, celery, green onions, carrots and a wipe of their secret sister sauce.
“It’s a California style,” says Molly, “with a signature gringo Cajun twist.” The Taco Sisters stand opens today.
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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