Add Zydeco Blues to the roster of new restaurants that must overcome a location charitably described as challenging. The 5-month-old establishment anchors one end of what you would normally call a ...

For a restaurant to be successful in a less-than-optimum location requires a hook, a gimmick, at least one attraction significant enough to overcome the obstacle. When Ron Gordon, a seasoned ...

Do you know what it means to bypass New Orleans? Well, if you’re driving in either direction on Manchester Road, just west of I-270, you’re likely to find out. Like a rerouting in the channel of the ...

Southern California has no shortage of bona fide cultural institutions. But few of them are as much fun as the Simi Valley Cajun & Blues Music Festival. Swinging into its 24th edition May 25 and 26, ...

It's the cold-hearted human who can sit still to zydeco. Southern Louisiana gets the credit for this feisty music's origins, a strangely intoxicating mix of French Canadian songs, the strings and keys ...

Zydeco is happy music, they say. Unlike many of the solemn or suave partner dances you find in ballrooms around the world, zydeco is pure joy. "We have a lot fun," said Chere Weiss, president of ...

Zydeco Blues is a new restaurant from Ron Gordon, who founded Wild Horse Grill (now closed) in Chesterfield. To head the kitchen, Gordon chose former Eleven Eleven Mississippi executive chef Wade ...