This Thursday an Acadiana staple returns. Same logo, same location, yet open under a different chef.
Catahoula’s has been around since seemingly the beginning of time, functioning as the go-to place for wedding rehersal dinners and nervous daters. With its stellar reputation, fine dining and lights dim enough to hide red cheeks as well as its setting in the very pretty and historical town of Grand Coteau, Catahoula’s was an invaluable choice for diners. After a hiatus away it is back with a revamped menu and under the guidance of Chef Rachel Leckelt.
Leckelt earned her degree in food science from the College of Agriculture at LSU. This was followed by studying at Le Cordon Bleu in Paris, then back to the states where Leckelt worked as a chef on both the east and west coasts before opening a boutique catering company in Houston.
With a new chef and great new interactive website, Catahoula’s is another local restaurant that believes in keeping its fare local. The focus of the food is Southern and French, like it has always been, but with new fresh twists.
Brunch, lunch, dinner and children’s menus are available and reservations can be made online. A modern take on an old favorite.
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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