Found! I’m talking about the superb tacos at Taco Tico, which closed over a year ago.
Found! I’m talking about the superb tacos at Taco Tico, which closed over a year ago.
Owner Irene Salvatierra left the big barn of a restaurant on University for a rainbow bright concept on Moss Street called La Paletera. “Paletas” is the name for the crushed fruit popsicles popular in Mexico. La Paletera, which is a franchise, offers banana, coconut, mango, lime, strawberry, pecan, cookies-n-cream and leche quemada popsicles, as well as smoothies, ice cream, and fresh fruit cups. The fresh fruit concept is where the franchise menu stops. But don’t let that stop you.
Salvatierra gives savory depth to the fruit snack menu with her sensational tacos. Personal faves are the Pastor (pork), Alambre (grilled steak, bacon, onion and bellpepper), and the Parrillada (grilled steak, grilled onions and chorizo). They come four to an order, which means you can mix and match, and the whole shebang will set you back a mere $6. I’m also partial to her tamales, both the pork and an unusual and delicate chicken filling. There’s daily plate lunches, super nachos and a burger that gets the La Paletera touch, along with the usual meat patty, bacon, cheese lettuce, tomato and onion, Salvatierra slips in a pineapple slice. Sweet.
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.
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.
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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