Lunchtime just got a lot better on Lafayette’s restaurant row.
Jolie’s Louisiana Bistro started serving lunch on Ash Wednesday, adding some delectable and innovative dishes to lunch choices for those of us lucky enough to work in the historic part of town. The heart of old Lafayette: downtown, the University, the Saints streets and the Oil Center, has a lot of synergy when it comes to restaurants. There are more locally owned places to dine in old Lafayette than anywhere else in town. The classy historic buildings, the century old oaks and walkable neighborhoods all invite culinary creativity, and that’s what we’re tasting at Jolie’s.
It’s impossible to choose between the three appetizers, BBQ shrimp, mussels in a garlic cream sauce, and a three way (Bienville, Rockefeller and Jolie’s) baked oyster dish. Bring a buddy and order them all. Then you can finish with a salad like the spinach with a prosciutto vinaigrette or the Louis salad, a super combo of crabmeat, shrimp and fried eggplant. If you’re hungrier than that, lunch entrees include a seared black pepper crusted Ahi tuna and a grilled rosemary and port glazed pork chop. Lunch runs Wednesday though Friday, and Sundays, which includes some brunch dishes. Happy hour by the way, 5-7 p.m., includes half-price appetizers. Check out the whole menu on Jolie’s Web site, or call 504-2382 for more info.
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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.
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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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