The Culinary Scene Home-Owned Restaurants (Continued from page 70)
and daisies painted by the talented Barbara Landman herself decorate the walls and fresh flowers center each table. Barbara and Ernie’s Cafe Pierremont was preceded by Big Ernie’s Snack Shop founded downtown in 1976 and by their very elegant Terrace Club almost a full decade later. Today Cafe Pierremont offers a home-cooked buffet, sandwiches, burgers, soups & salads Monday-Friday; they do a lot of catering on weekends and often deliver to longtime customers now homebound. 2Johns out Airline Drive in Bossier City is owned & operated by John Montelepre Jr. (longtime proprietor of Leon’s Barbecue), Josh Wilkinson is the executive chef and John Montelepre III is sous chef. The elegant fine dining establishment is in a free-standing building in Airline Plaza and has an open state of the art kitchen.
Guests at 2Johns enjoy phenomenal cuisine with impeccable service and exquisite atmosphere. Open for dinner only, 2Johns has two Happy Hours. The cuisine is served in the dining room, the upscale piano bar (where James Pendley often entertains) or on the attractive patio. Discriminating palates heartily approve the fare at 2Johns, and we prophesy that you will, too. It’s a fact: Gerald Savoie is the most diversified restaurant owner in town. When he established his first local eatery called The Shrimp Boat, Gerald built it himself, poured the parking lot and did the cooking. Then fellow South Louisianian Dudley Vallot came on board and they enjoyed 10 years of success as Dudley & Gerald’s, after which the eatery became Gerald Savoie’s and soon catering moved to a large building across East 70th. Chef (Continued on page 76)
At right: The super creative Chuck Ashley is SRAC’s “main man” when it comes to catering but he and his talented staff also keep an impressive multitude of food afficiandos happy as can be with innovative casseroles, an array of salads and awesome cakes and pies. Chuck’s Smokehouse 301 has Slow Smoked beef and sausage sandwiches, poboys, ribs and burgers, top; Salvadore Flores and his brother Alfonso have opened their 4th store, The Ranchera, on Youree. The brothers offer customers an excellent meat market, many products from Mexico including hand-tooled cowboys boots & matching belts and a huge selection of pinatas! Below: The Cub Restaurant’s Roger Wilbanks goes over the biz with headwaiter Brad Victory at the popular 20year-old steakhouse.
Deli Casino’s Dayle & Sam George, at right, began their little eatery in 1979 & contend they will never ever retire. From Po-Boys, Player’s Choice and Chicken Salad to fresh Apple Pie , the fare at their cozy cafe is healthy and tasty.
MAXWELL’S MARKET A Divison of Barclay’s Market
Handmade Entrees, Soups, Gumbos, Dips, Twice-Baked Potatoes & other assorted edibles ◆ Aged Midwestern Grain-fed Beef ◆ Fresh chicken & pork Seafood flown in twice weekly from Florida & Hawaii ◆ Party Platers & Full-Service Deli featuring Boar’s Head Meats & Cheeses 4861 Line Avenue @ Southfield • Shreveport • 318.865.3315 • www.maxwellmarket.com Market Hours: Mon.-Sat. 10am-7pm • Barclay’s Sandwich Shop: 11am-3pm
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