Happy St. Paddy’s Day. A few beer centric thoughts for the day.
Honoring the tradition of Bennigan’s, its replacement, The Tilted Kilt, on Ambassador Caffery, has the tent, the band and the green beer. Seems to me The Tilted Kilt should be serving a Scottish Oatmeal Stout, but surely the Scots err on the side of being PC when it comes to Éirinn go brách. There is a special St. Patrick's Day menu at the Tilted Kilt, including Guinness Irish Stew and Corned Beef and Cabbage.
If it’s real Irish you’re looking for, try the taps at Jefferson Street Pub and the Tap Room in River Ranch. Guinness, a dark barley beer from Dublin, and Harp, a pale lager first brewed in Dundalk, Ireland are on tap at these two bars.
Where’s the real craic? Pamplona manager Brendan Akres, Irish to the core, has a special at his bar tonight, an Irish Car Bomb. Fill a shot glass half and half with Jamison’s Irish Wiskey and Bailey’s Irish cream. Drop it into a pint of Guinness. Shoot the moon. “Tastes like chocolate milk,” says Akres. Um hum.
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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