Featured image: Wine bottles are photographed following an epic dinner at Lucky Palace in Bossier City.
If you’re a food and wine enthusiast in the Shreveport-Bossier region, chances are good that you already know and love Kuan Lim. Lim is the friendly, welcoming proprietor of Lucky Palace, a gourmet Chinese restaurant in Bossier City that is widely known throughout the southern United States for its unbelievable collection of fine wines. Over the last year, Lim has endured some significant health challenges that have left many of his friends in the local restaurant industry wondering how they could help.
On Sunday, Sept. 10, 2-5 p.m., Sip UnLIMited: A Tribute to Kuan Lim will be held at Margaritaville Resort Casino Bossier City as a fundraiser for Lim. Tickets are $75 each and may be purchased here, and the official Facebook event is here. Full event details can be found on the Eventbrite ticketing page. Guests must be 21 or older.
From the time the event was first announced, I felt certain that the local restaurants and wine purveyors who stepped up to participate in this event would really “show out.” I was right about that. While only a partial list of food and wine vendor details was available as of Aug. 28, here’s a taste of what you can expect to eat and drink at Sip UnLIMited:
Food
2Johns Steak & Seafood – Gulf shrimp sautéed with tasso, herbs, and spices, served over creamy stone-ground grits
Bamboo Asian Café (Margaritaville Resort Casino) – Bahn mi sandwiches; fresh spring rolls
Giuseppe’s PastaCaffè – Rigatoni Bolognese
Lucky Palace – Northern-style duck with steamed buns; salt and pepper shrimp with steamed buns
Parish Taceaux – Menu TBA
Riverview Restaurant and Brewhouse (Margaritaville Resort Casino) – Philly cheese steak rolls; tater kegs
SALT (Shreveport Aquarium) – Shrimp ceviche
The Market Restaurant – Duck and truffle pâté, triple coconut crème cake
Silver Star Smokehouse – Smoked turkey salad
Stone Forks – Spiced duck with cherry and amaretto sauce; white truffle and porcini risotto; smoked salmon Mediterranean style with citrus, cream cheese and capers; crawfish etouffée on jazzed-up polenta cakes; crabmeat cheesecake with savory meunière sauce; spiced pears poached in red wine sauce; Tuscan-style gnocchi with browned sage and marjoram butter
Wine Country Bistro – New Orleans-style BBQ shrimp over a pan-seared grit cake with micro salad
World Tour Buffet (Margaritaville Resort Casino) – Deviled eggs with bourbon onion marmalade
Wine
Artisan Fine Wines – Arcadian Sierra Madre Chardonnay 2009 (for the wine dinner); Henri Purresset Macon–Domaine Trinvequedel Rosé Tavel; St. Cosme Cote du Rhone Rouge; Stoller Vineyards Dundee Hills Pinot Noir; Seven Hills Columbia Valley Cabernet Sauvignon; Revelry Riesling
International Wine and Spirits – TBA
Neat Wines LLC – Foggy Ridge Ciders; Domaine de la Motte Rosé; Redheads Studio Yard Dog Red; Pink Kong organic rosado; Gamling & McDuck Chenin Blanc; Oynos Pinot Grigio; Petit Cochon Bronze Rosé; Poison Muscadet
Purveyors of Fine Wine – Morgan Metallico Unoaked Chardonnay; Morgan Highland Chardonnay; Morgan Pinot Noir “Twelve Clones”; Morgan G-17 Syrah; Duckhorn Chardonnay; Duckhorn Merlot; Pine Ridge Chenin Blanc + Viognier; Seghesio Zinfandel Sonoma County; Chateau Recougne Bordeaux Blanc; E. Guigal Côtes du Rhône Rouge
Republic National – TBA
SALT (Shreveport Aquarium) – New Zealand shiraz
Select Wines, Inc. – Frank Family cabernet and chardonnay (and others)
Southern Glazer’s Wine and Spirits – A selection of wines from North by Northwest winery; Frappachata dark roast coffee and Rumchata liqueur
Wines Unlimited – 8 wines from France, California, and Germany
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If you attend Sip UnLIMited, please celebrate responsibly and please don’t drink and drive.
