Eunice

Chef Drake Leonards shares his cooking philosophy in a demonstration kitchen at the LSUE campus during the Experience Louisiana Festival in October 2015. Leonards will be chef-partner of Eunice, a restaurant planned by Chef John Besh in Houston. The restaurant will offer a taste of food from Southwest and Southeast Louisiana. (Photos by Harlan Kirgan)

A restaurant named Eunice

Thu, 06/09/2016 - 5:35am Harlan Kirgan

Chef Drake Leonards will carry his hometown of Eunice to a new Chef John Besh restaurant in Houston named Eunice.
Leonards, named chef-partner, said he was on his way to a menu-planning session when he answered his phone Wednesday morning.

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Pat Dossman, second from right, enjoys a moment with Michel Levay, right, during a luncheon meeting at Ruby’s Tuesday where the possibility of Eunice twinning with a French city was discussed. From left, are Marion “Nootsie” Sattler, a Eunice alderman; Claude Grejean of Jouars-Pontchartrain; Marianne Hastir, of Brussels, Belgium; Pierrette Grajean, of Jouars-Pontchartrain; Dossman, of Eunice; and Levay of Brussels, Belgium. (Photo by Harlan Kirgan)

Twin city discussed in Eunice

Thu, 05/14/2015 - 7:14am Harlan Kirgan

The French flowed like, well, more like iced tea as about 20 people met Tuesday over lunch to discuss twinning the city of Eunice with Jouars-Pontchartrain in France.
Jouars-Pontchartrain is in north central France and has a population of about 5,000 people.