The Oasis has been at 2921 Verot School Road (in between La Neuville and Vincent roads) for some time, but only recently has it come under the ownership of downtown alumni Robert Guercio and Michael Delcambre. Originally just looking to invest in property, Delcambre and Guercio stumbled across this place. Chantel Larpenteur, formerly of Artmosphere, has been brought on board as manager.
Several years ago in my drink-slinger days The Oasis had a weird reputation and was a favorite of offshore divers and the like. The locale has been there 25 years, first as The Bullseye, then as Kitty’s, then after a brief time as a restaurant Wade Bourque bought it and named it The Oasis Sports Bar & Grill. After much rehabbing and rehashing Guercio and Delcambre have turned it into an Oasis you won’t recognize from before.
Today with the explosive expansion of Youngsville and its location being halfway between Lafayette and there the turnout should be tremendous. Live music several nights a week and ladies never, ever pay cover at The Oasis. Up to eight beers on tap with nightly draft and pitcher specials. There are three pool tables for your pleasure.
Open now but the owners are tinkering with improvements still. Grand opening forthcoming. When that goes down the kitchen will be open serving food day and night. Call 857-8198 for information or booking your band or find them on ye olde Facebook at The Oasis Sports Bar.
David Calhoun and Elizabeth “EB” Brooks are the first two employees of Lafayette Central Park Inc., the nonprofit charged with turning Lafayette Consolidated Government’s 100-acre Johnston Street Horse Farm property into a passive public park. Calhoun was named executive director, and Brooks is director of planning and design.
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This year’s Cool Town issue is all about people who are not native to South Louisiana but made a conscious decision to be here, to be among us, to participate in our culture and contribute to it.
A shelved ordinance transferring $200,000 from a northside drainage project to a south Lafayette development may not break any laws, but it stinks to high heaven.
An effort to restore a shuttered dancehall and document other vacant or razed honky-tonks could serve as a model for saving an endangered species of entertainment.
Lafayette’s gene pool has been host to a long line of eccentric characters who have blurred the lines between crazy, genius, disturbed and curiously entertaining.
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