Chef Gabriel Balderas and his wife and partner, Brooke, are detail-oriented people. This fact is in evidence everywhere you look inside of their soon-to-open second restaurant, Zuzul Coastal Cuisine. The Balderases, who also operate El Cabo Verde in south Shreveport, have gone to great lengths to transform a shopping center …
Featured photo: Hunter from Smokin’ Bowls Stir Fry prepares an order at Great Raft Brewing. Between some fun new pop-ups, fundraiser events, special dinners and some educational events, Shreveport-Bossier’s food and drink community is staying hella busy as the Summer of ’17 draws to a close. Here, in no particular …
***UPDATE: This event is SOLD OUT! Thank you for supporting 318 Restaurant Week.*** During a 318 Restaurant Week dinner at El Cabo Verde on Tuesday, March 14, Chef Gabriel Balderas will present a six-course meal celebrating the important role of corn in traditional Mexican cooking. Balderas, who was recently named …
Featured photo: Gabriel Balderas will open a restaurant this fall in South Shreveport’s Provenance neighborhood. Gabriel Balderas is having a really interesting year. Named to Louisiana Cookin’ magazine’s “Chefs to Watch” list for 2016 (six chefs are featured each September; past groups have included folks like Cory Bahr in 2011 …
Featured photo: Gabriel Balderas of El Cabo Verde grills oysters as the sun sets on Caddo Lake during the first Pineywoods Supper Club event. When farmer Evan McCommon, of Princeton, Louisiana’s Mahaffey Farms, attended a Delta Supper Club event in Clarksdale, Mississippi, he was impressed by what he saw. Supper clubs are members-only …
