Wine Country Bistro, Chef Jason Brady’s long-running restaurant at 4800 Line Avenue in Shreveport, quietly introduced an exciting new feature this past winter. Wine Country Bistro’s new chef’s table is one of only two that I know of in Shreveport-Bossier, the other being offered at The Mabry House. The chef’s …
There’s a lot of good eating to be had in Shreveport-Bossier these days, especially, it seems, in the “$10 or less” category. Two of the best food experiences I’ve had recently have been the brunch biscuits created by Chef Nick Simons at Wine Country Bistro and the habanero jack cheese-stuffed crawfish …
Featured photo: Chef Tom Ramsey of the Louisiana Food Prize will co-host a cooking demo with Chef Marco d’Emidio on June 27. Photo used courtesy of Richard Creative Group. Wine Country Bistro in Shreveport will kick off their Summer Chef Series on Tuesday, June 26 with a dinner featuring Marco …
If there’s one Shreveport-Bossier food event that surprises and delights me, year after year, it’s Wine Country Bistro’s Wine & Swine. Tickets are now on sale for the 2018 event, which will take place, 3-6 p.m., on Sunday, Apr. 22. The 2018 event will feature 60 wines, live music from …
Wine & Swine is growing up. The annual whole hog roast and wine tasting event held in the parking lot of Wine Country Bistro may have started out as a bacchanalian throw-down built around smoked whole hogs and really good wine – and it’s still that, for sure – but the …
Featured Photo: Anthony Felan (center) and Jason Brady serve whole hog-style pork at Wine and Swine in 2014. Wine and Swine, an afternoon-long wine tasting and cook-out held each April at Wine Country Bistro & Bottle Shop, will return for 2016 on Sunday, April 10. I’m sure that there will be …
Featured photo: Chef Anthony Felan’s chicken-fried rabbit porchetta, featured as part of the “Louisiana Lone Star Restaurant Night” in Austin, Texas on Tuesday, Oct. 13. On Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2015, Louisiana Culinary Trails – a program administered by the Louisiana Office of Tourism – hosted nine Louisiana chefs in nine restaurants …
Featured photo note: The featured photo in this post is Chef Anthony Felan at work in the kitchen of Wine Country Bistro and Bottle Shop, photographed for the Shreveport-Bossier Convention and Tourist Bureau by Jim Noetzel. If you’ve got a friend who loves food and lives in Austin, Texas, do …
Featured photo: An Old Fashioned cocktail prepared by Joanna Foster of Wine Country Bistro & Bottle Shop. Photo by guest blogger Judd Smith. Editor’s Note: This post brings to a close a series of three contributions on local cocktail culture by guest blogger Judd Smith, author of the Beard and …
Featured photo: Wine Country Chef Anthony Felan (center) and owner Jason Brady (right) serve food at the 2015 Wine & Swine event. On Sunday, May 31, 2:30-6:30 p.m., Wine Country Bistro and Bottle Shop and local t-shirt company Sweet Tee Shreveport will partner on a shindig to simultaneously celebrate the …
Featured photo: Chef Anthony Felan, of Wine Country Bistro and Bottle Shop, is filmed on the set of a new reality television show, Big Bad BBQ Battle. Big Bad BBQ Battle – a new, barbecue-themed reality television program on Cooking Channel – will feature several well-known Shreveport-Bossier businesses and filming …
Wine Country Bistro and Bottle Shop‘s annual whole hog barbecue and wine tasting party, Wine & Swine, will host what organizers are calling its “79th Edition,” 3-6 p.m., Sunday, April 12. While we’re pretty sure the party isn’t nearly 80 years old, we’ve also gotta respect Wine Country owner Jason …
Two years ago, when Chef Anthony Felan left Shreveport for California, the farm-to-table movement hadn’t really arrived in Shreveport-Bossier. Few restaurants were serving locally sourced ingredients and it remained to be seen whether consumers would demand it. There were a lot of connections that still needed to be made between …
Featured photo: Judd Smith of Wine Country Bistro. A self-described “obsessive nerd,” Judd Smith is the affable but difficult-to-photograph (“I have resting meanface, I always look angry”) beverage director for Cadre Hospitality Group, the company helmed by Chef Jason Brady that operates Wine Country Bistro, Zocolo Neighborhood Eatery, Southern Fork …
