While there is still no word on who is going to move into Bonnie Bell’s Bistro spot downtown, former chef Paul Gibson, who opened up The Mess Hall on Kaliste Saloom several months ago, is set to open his next venture next week.
While there is still no word on who is going to move into the Bonnie Bell’s Bistro spot downtown, former chef Paul Gibson, who opened up The Mess Hall on Kaliste Saloom several months ago, is set to open his next venture.The second Mess Hall will be located at 1403 Eraste Landry, near the Coca-Cola building.
Gibson, who is married to Bonnie Bell, is having a good time using his experience as an army cook to riff on menu items like his dynamite Bazooka Burger, (Jalapeño seasoned meat, pickle, pepper jack and topped with potato chips) The Grunt (a steak sandwich), and the Airborne (a grilled chicken BLT with cheese). The Eraste Landry Mess Hall will offer some new items including wraps, and Gibson’s Submarine Dog, a 10 inch long, 8 oz all beef dog. “It’s the biggest hot dog in town,” he says, “you’re gonna love it.”
As for the building, a former donut shop, look for the red, yellow and white stripes. “You can’t miss it,” says Gibson.
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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