Yesterday, I ate my first Reuben from Maxwell’s Market, a “fancy groceries” shop located at 4861 Line Avenue in Shreveport. On their lunch menu, this terrific sandwich is billed as “Martin’s Famous Grilled Reuben,” which kind of threw me for a loop. I agree that this sandwich ought to be …
The new Cuban sandwich at Abby Singer’s Bistro has been six years in the making. The small, popular bistro, which is located upstairs at Robinson Film Center in downtown Shreveport, recently released an updated menu, and the Cuban ($12) was finally there, listed under “Sandwiches & Stuff.” What you wouldn’t …
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 …
Lately, for whatever reason, I’ve been worried about Evi’s Schnitzel Haus, Shreveport-Bossier’s relatively new German restaurant. After all, they’ve occupied three buildings in a little over two years. The latest location, at 1303 Shreveport-Barksdale Highway in Shreveport, has been a half dozen bars in the last 10 years (including one …
Boy, was I ever wrong about Biscotti’s, the friendly little restaurant located inside of Lewis’ Gifts at 5807 Youree Drive in Shreveport. Prior to my recent visit, I thought of Biscotti’s as a sandwich counter that was mostly there to provide a convenient place for local ladies to grab a …
If there’s anything that beats a good bánh mì sandwich – the popular Vietnamese sandwich that consists of grilled pork, chicken, Vietnamese ham and a ton of veggies – it’s two bánh mì sandwiches for the price of one. At Pho L’amour, a Vietnamese eatery located at 530 East Kings …
The muffuletta is an unforgiving sandwich. Unlike, say, a cheeseburger, a bad muffuletta can be downright depressing in its badness. Even a bad cheeseburger is still a cheeseburger, but a bad muffuletta? With the opening of Trailer Hash, a new food truck based in Shreveport, there’s a new, genuinely outstanding …
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 …
Featured photo: A combination bánh mì from All in the Phamily. One thing about the food and drink scene in Shreveport-Bossier: when change happens, it almost never happens at a slow, steady pace. The sudden proliferation of really good Vietnamese bánh mì sandwiches – served at only one or two places …
