The waffle lives again. Lafayette’s fledgling mobile food-vending industry was burned last July when the Viva la Waffle truck, not even a week in business in a lot behind the Burger King near the UL campus, when an electrical fire swept through the cab of the van while it was parked in co-owner Colin Cormier’s driveway. But the business’ Facebook page announced today that Viva la Waffle is back on the street and setting up shop in its off-campus location:
WE ARE BACK BABY!!!! And it feels SO GOOD!!!! Behind burger king on St. Mary!!! 10:30 to 2:00! Full lineup for Tuesday... Roscoe, figgy piggy, viva las Vegas, Caprese, s’more, nanner nutella, cinnamon roll, we are rolling out our new sea salted caramel (if collin and fred dont eat it all first!! Garlic butter waffle fries and cinnamon sugar waffle fries as well!!!! Come one come all! THE WAFFLE REVOLUTION IS BACK!!!
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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