Maybe you’ve seen the photos circulating on social media: decadent-looking little layered cakes in Southern flavors like honey bun cake, cookies n’ cream and banana pudding served in clear, eight-ounce jars. Caked by Britt, the project of an aspiring culinary entrepreneur named Brittany Shaw, creates the cakes, which are sold exclusively …
Featured photo: Whisk Dessert Bar is now open in Shreveport. Chef Blake Jackson’s Whisk Dessert Bar is now open at 724 Azalea Drive in Shreveport’s South Highlands neighborhood. Whisk is a chef-driven, dessert-only eatery serving artful pastries, cookies, gelato and other fine desserts. On my first visit to Whisk, I …
Recently, a boba tea and smoothie shop called N2O Puff (1131 Airline Drive, Bossier City) opened in Rams Airline Plaza, at the corner of Airline Drive and Barksdale Boulevard in Bossier City. My interest was initially driven by the simple fact that a boba café was opening in Shreveport-Bossier; most boba sold in …
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 …
Featured photo: A chocolate chip scone from The Glenwood Village and Tearoom. Jarred and Kera Hamilton, the new owners of The Glenwood Village and Tearoom at 3310 Line Avenue in Shreveport, are in a really unique position as new business owners. They’re assuming control of a business that, having been …
If you’ve recently visited Rhino Coffee, the independent coffee house located in Shreveport’s South Highlands neighborhood, you may have noticed that the coffee shop’s baked goods offerings now include an array of oversized, festively colored macarons. Macarons are sweet meringue cookie sandwiches that are commonly filled with such tasty fillings …
Photo: A sign marks the new location of Geauxsicles at 1817 E. 70th Street in Shreveport. Long before Shreveport-Bossier discovered local craft beer or farm-to-table dining, we were wooed by Geauxsicles, a family-run shop serving locally made “gourmet ice pops.” Founded in 2010 at their original location on Youree Drive, …
Sitting alone at an enormous table in the back of his restaurant, the recently-relocated Sevendipity Café at 3030 Creswell Avenue in Shreveport, chef/owner Scott Roebuck is describing his restaurant’s newest menu item. “It’s part croissant, part doughnut. It’s delicate, it’s flaky. It’s almost like a croissant that dissolves in your …
Sitting down for lunch at Cat Daddy’s Old School Café, located at 4158 Hollywood Avenue in Shreveport, can feel like riding inside of a rocket ship as it re-enters the Earth’s atmosphere. You get the feeling that every component is being pushed to its absolute limit and the whole thing …
