Meet Bittercreek BBQ, An Outstanding New Barbecue Truck in Shreveport-Bossier
Their excellent barbecue looks and tastes different from any that I’ve eaten in Shreveport-Bossier.
Kim’s Seafood and Po’ Boy in Bossier Expands, Adds Vietnamese Menu
Kim’s Seafood & Po’ Boy, a casual po’ boy and boiled crawfish spot that’s served Bossier City for 14 years, has completed a renovation and expanded their menu to include Vietnamese cuisine. Owner Duc Duong, who is Vietnamese, recently invited me over to show off some of his new menu …
The Cajun Asian Opens in Bossier City
To say that you don’t often encounter a menu like the one at The Cajun Asian (1964 Airline Drive, Bossier City) would be underselling it. I’ve never seen a menu like it. There are crawfish wontons, jambalaya egg rolls, fried rice étouffée, Vietnamese iced coffee and funnel cakes. On its Facebook …
BeauxJax Greauxs, The Cajun Asian Opening Soon, and More
Bossier City’s restaurant community is finishing out 2018 strong, with two interesting new international eateries opening and one popular new restaurant already planning to expand. BeauxJax Crafthouse, the Cajun restaurant and bar that anchors the west side of the East Bank District at 501 Barksdale Blvd., has plans to add …
Al Noor is a Great New Spot for Middle Eastern Food
Located just down the street from Bossier City’s new Eask Bank District, at 1630 Barksdale Blvd., Al Noor is a new Middle Eastern grocery store and restaurant serving lunch and dinner. Most of the menu will be familiar to fans of Greek and Middle Eastern favorites like shish kebab, falafel, …
Fat Tuesday Is a Not-So-Hidden Gem in Bossier City
Located on the edge of Bossier City’s Shady Grove neighborhood, you’d think that Fat Tuesday Sandwich Shop and Bakery (1201 Shady Grove Drive) would be easy to miss. But finding the place doesn’t appear to have been a problem for the lunch crowd; on my recent lunch hour visit, I grabbed …
Bossier City Now Has a Corn Dog Festival (And It’s For a Great Cause)
Featured photo: Clark McLendon tends grill at Flying Heart Brewing and Pub in 2017. When Clark McLendon, owner of Running Dog Sportswear, showed me the flyer for his upcoming Corn Dog Busker Arts Festival, the first thing that I noticed was the official event hashtag: #ILIKECORNDOGS. With a hashtag that …
Wooden Spoon Pizza Makes Great, Simple Pies
It’s not that I’m a pizza snob. I just have a difficult time finding a crust that I love. I loved the crust at the now-closed Pietro’s, and I love the crust at the newly opened Wooden Spoon Pizza. Wooden Spoon Pizza is located inside of Flying Heart Brewing at 700 …
Menu Explorer: The Wooden Spoon’s Mighty B-52
Photo Note: If you’re thinking “Isn’t that sandwich in the photo upside-down?”, the answer is yes. Perhaps I was too distracted by the delicious scent of Bourbon chicken to notice; the sandwich is upside-down in every photo that I took during my visit. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ The Wooden Spoon, a mom-and-pop bakery …
Menu Explorer: The Classic Molcajete at Los Potrillos
Blogger’s note: This is the first installment of an ongoing new blog category called Menu Explorer. The purpose of these posts is to celebrate specific menu items that are particularly awesome or unusual at eateries in Shreveport and Bossier City. The more time I spend poring over the menu at …
Love Tacos? Get to Taqueria San Miguel in Bossier City
If I were asked to summarize recent changes in Shreveport-Bossier’s restaurant scene using just one word, that word would be “tacos.” Over the course of the last five to eight years, locals have fallen in love with tacos of every imaginable kind: the al pastor tacos at Taqueria La Michoacana …
Meet Rocket Fizz, the Sprawling Candy Shop at Louisiana Boardwalk Outlets
I don’t know what I was expecting to find on my first visit to Rocket Fizz Bossier City, but I certainly was not prepared for the scale of the place nor the amount of fun that I’d have there. At nearly 3,000 square feet, this huge candy shop located at …
The $20 Burger at The People’s Market Is Worth Every Penny
When you walk into the new Bossier City restaurant The People’s Market (2369 Airline Dr #500, Bossier City) for the first time, you may need some help getting your bearings. A quick look at the chalkboard menu shows that, first and foremost, The People’s Market is a health food restaurant. They’ve …
A Popular Mexican Chef Resurfaces at La Cocina De Los Amigos
Featured photo: Caldo de Pollo from La Cocina de Los Amigos in Bossier City. If you ever ate at a tiny lunch counter called Salsitas, a Mexican restaurant that once shared a space with a barbecue joint on East Kings Highway in Shreveport, chances are good that you know Salvador …
Happy Holidays, Bourbon Lovers: 2Johns Gets Their Annual Rare Bourbon Drop Today
Featured photo: Members of the bar staff at 2Johns Steak & Seafood in Bossier City. If you are a rare bourbon aficionado, you may want to plan a visit to 2Johns Steak & Seafood in Bossier City sometime in the very near future. The restaurant – which features a handsomely …
Ichigo Sushi Now Open in Bossier City
Featured photo: A sushi roll from Ichigo Sushi in Bossier City. If you’ve ever eaten Chinese take-out in Shreveport or Bossier City, you may have met Sky Lin. Lin has operated a handful of Chinese restaurants around town. 20×49.com once profiled him (in this blog post, “The Nicest Guy to …
Spicy Means Spicy at Southern Pho in Bossier City
Featured Photo: A bowl of spicy vermicelli noodle soup from Southern Phở. About halfway through my bowl of Bún bò Huế ($6 small, $10 large) during a recent visit to Southern Phở (2100 Benton Road, Suite D, Bossier City), I’m pretty sure that my spirit left my body. As I worked my way …
An Appreciation of Don Juanz Baja Beach Tacos
Featured Photo: The baja carnitas taco from Don Juanz Baja Beach Tacos in Bossier City. Photos in this post are by Chris Jay for the Shreveport-Bossier Convention and Tourist Bureau. Don Juanz Baja Beach Tacos, located at 2333 Airline Drive in Bossier City, will celebrate 10 years in business this …
The Chocolate Crocodile’s Strawberries: A Valentine’s Day Tradition in Shreveport-Bossier
Featured photo: Two chocolate-covered strawberries from The Chocolate Crocodile. Photo by Chris Jay/Shreveport-Bossier Convention and Tourist Bureau Chances are good that, if you’re familiar with the Bossier City chocolate shop The Chocolate Crocodile, you’ve heard about their assortment of huge, candy-covered apples. Their top-selling apple, the Monster Croc, is a large …
The 5 Best Things That I Ate in Shreveport-Bossier in 2015
Featured image: Chef Frederick Ngo’s clay pot fish, served at Jimmy’s Seafood and Steak. Photo: Jim Noetzel. You may have noticed that I try to avoid two things when writing about food for 20×49.com: making lists and calling things “the best.” However, as 2016 rapidly approaches, I thought it’d be …
