There’s lots going on in the drinking world this week.
For starters, the New Orleans Food and Wine Experience kicks off today. Five days of glorious food and drink in venues all over town feature wine dinners; a Royal Street sipping stroll; FEASTIVAL of celebrity chefs and food parings; Vinola super premium wine tasting and auction; and a seafood cook-off pitting New Orleans’ best against the world.
Chris Hannah, bartender at Arnaud’s French 75 bar, in the French Quarter, has been honored by Food and Wine Magazine for the third year in a row, with creating one of the best cocktails in the country. Hannah’s Bywater Cocktail, a rum based drink, is one in 130 great sippers listed in Food and Wine'sCocktails '09 special edition. The magazine also names its top 100 bars in the country. New Orleans garnered seven bar stools: at Arnaud’s French 75, Bar UnCommon, Carousel Bar, Cochon, Commander’s Palace, Napoleon House and the Swizzle Stick Bar.
Can’t make it to the Crescent City? Tomorrow, Rouses’s Market in Youngsville is holding a single malt scotch seminar at 6:30 p.m. Call 362-2814 for reservations. Next Wednedsay, May 27, Rouse’s will host a talk and tasting on wines from around the world. Charley G’s offers a wine dinner the same night. Call Charley G’s at 981-0108 for a menu and reservations.
And don’t miss tomorrow’s edition of The Independent. Our Spring Dining Guide, a listing of local restaurants from white linen palaces to mom and pop plate lunch joints, is included in a handy special section designed to fit in your glove compartment. Bon appetit.
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.
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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