Southside Cafe

On March 28. 1991. Southside Cafe was opened for business by Dan & Sharon DeBlanc, bartender Chris Legrand (now the managing partner) and the help of good friends. The idea was to create a neighborhood restaurant like the ones Dan, Sharon, & Chris grew up with in New Orleans. With comfort food like ya Mamma makes, a bar chock full of your favorite libations & frozen mugs of beer, you could easily imagine yourself to be in any neighborhood restaurant from the 9th Ward to Uptown New Orleans. Southside had steadily growo into a favorite meeting spot for many of Slidells movers and shakers. It also had beoome one of the most patriotic places to eat. The Military theme grew out of the rising patriotism brought about by the First Iraqi war and Dan being a former Marine Corps Helicopter pilot. As many of Slidells finest yomg men and women left to go protect our country overseas, an idea was birthed to honor them by hanging their pictures on the wall. Those pictures quickly grew to memorabilia and pictures of local veterans from all the wars our country had fought.