Luckily for local food lovers, there are two locations of Bergeron’s Boudin and Cajun Meats in Shreveport-Bossier, and they’re both great in different ways. While the Bossier City location serves some of the best smoked hamburgers to be found in either city, the Shreveport location (7805 East Kings Hwy., Shreveport) …
Featured photo: Several members of the team from The Cotton Boll Grill, none of whom were overly excited to be photographed. You know that old saying: “The more things change, the more they stay the same”? I tend to think that the more things change, the more they change. Especially …
Some folks call it “soul food”, others call it “country cooking”. Popular local food authority Chef Hardette Harris, creator of the Official Meal of North Louisiana, just calls it “what we eat around here”. Whatever you call the kind of cooking that’s given the world smothered pork chops, beef tips …
J’Shanae’s Magnolia Tea, a soul food buffet located at 7601 Pines Road in Shreveport, is unlike most local soul food restaurants in several noteworthy ways. For starters, J’Shanae’s Magnolia Tea is an all-you-care-to-eat buffet. Buffet features change daily and, for the most part, run the gamut of traditional soul food/Southern …
Located at 724 E. Flournoy Lucas Road in Shreveport, Gullo’s Fresh Produce and Bake Shop is a family-run produce stand and bake shop that has been serving plate lunches, tamales, and some of the region’s best cheeseburgers for more than 30 years. I recently visited Gullo’s with KTAL 6 reporter …
I must have looked pretty confused, standing there just inside the entrance to Murrell’s, a camera slung over my shoulder, looking like I’d seen a ghost. But then, I was confused. I’d been under the impression that Murrell’s, a 24-hour diner on East Kings Highway that closed in 2009 after …
Before having lunch at the Garden Grille and Bar – a restaurant located inside of the new, dual-branded Hilton Garden Inn® and Homewood Suites in Bossier City – I had managed to get my expectations up pretty high. Several friends who are regular lunch patrons had told me about the …
Housed in a weathered, old wooden building that once served as a country schoolhouse, Shank Cat’s Bar-B-Que sits just a stone’s throw off of I-49 in Frierson, Louisiana. The business is named for the original proprietor, Carrie “Shank Cat” Scott, who passed away in 1995 at the age of 85. …
Before you step foot in the Cotton Boll Grill, located at 1624 Fairfield Avenue in Shreveport, there are a few things that you really should know: Regardless of the time of day, it’s going to smell more like bacon than any other place you’ve ever been. It’s going to smell …
There are lots of great things to eat at Sherry’s Diner, a plate lunch house tucked away in Shreveport’s Stoner Hill neighborhood. There are spectacular daily plate lunch options that range from the commonplace (Wednesday: Chicken Tetrazzini, Smothered Pork Steak or Country Fried Steak) to the harder-to-find (Friday: Fried Catfish, …
Ask locals in Shreveport-Bossier about their “go-to” barbecue joints, and it won’t be long before someone mentions Taylor’s Catering and Restaurant (1136 North Market St., Shreveport). As they tell you about the gargantuan barbecue plate lunches served up by this humble, family-run lunch house each Friday, you may detect a …
I heard the story from someone who heard the story, so it could very well have been exaggerated in the process of re-telling. But, the way I heard it, pop music legends Earth, Wind and Fire walked into C&C Cafe on Milam Street recently and ordered up a few plate …
