Month: February 2020

Spend Some Bread at Retro Baking Company

New Year’s Resolution be darned- downtown’s newest location for home-baked sweets is calling your name! The doors are open at Retro Baking Company at 500 Texas, a perfect location at the corner of Texas and Marshall adjacent to Government Plaza and the main branch of the Shreve Memorial Library and across from the Caddo Parish […]

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Parish Taceaux Takes a Bow

Parish Taceaux at 708 Texas Street has been singled out by the Only in Your State blog as a purveyor of tasty tacos and we couldn’t agree more! The little bistro is known for their creative tacos (taceauxs), a popular burnt ends salad, fried avocado, creamy queso dip and constantly re-imagined specialty drinks  created for […]

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Downtown Construction Woes

Chances are good that you, too, have been witness to spray-painted marks on the sidewalks and the streets, dirt piles, random holes, trenches and poor repairs. The city seems awash in companies digging, trenching, stringing and just generally making a mess, with seemingly little accountability. Over the last few months the city has acquired a […]

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Chef Jon Ortiz Invited to Food Prize

A big shout out to Noble Savage Tavern chef Jon Ortiz on being the FIRST local chef named a 2020 Louisiana Food Prize invitee. For you Food Prize newbies out there, this is a big deal, a chance for the chef to win fame, acclaim and a (small) fortune as the eventual winner of the […]

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