AMID a promising series of events that can help revive the tourism industry, Bourbon Street Bar & Café opened its doors on Friday night in central Garapan.
Located at the corner of Beach Road and Cpl. Derence Jack St., Bourbon Street Bar & Café offers live band entertainment on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, and stand-up comedy on weeknights, co-owner Eden Guillo Ordas said.
They also plan to have open mic nights to encourage local bar hoppers and tourists to dance, sing and join the fun all the way to 4 a.m. on weekends, and 2 a.m. on weeknights.
“Life is too short,” Ordas said. “We work hard so let’s have fun once in a while,” she added.
Butch Ordas, her brother-in-law and co-owner of Bourbon Street Bar & Café, said it was inspired by the famous street in the French Quarter of New Orleans “where the partying never stops.”
Eden Ordas said Garapan was “like that in the years prior to the Covid-19 pandemic.”
She said the recent increase in tourist arrivals and the launching of an NMI-based airline are positive news for people who are in the entertainment and tourist-oriented businesses.
After two years of enduring the hassles of Covid-19 pandemic, she said local residents deserve a place where they can enjoy their favorite drinks, music and all sorts of entertainment.
At Bourbon Street Bar & Café, Sessionista Band provides live band entertainment while Hapi Gabriel is the resident comic.
Also worth sampling are Bourbon Street’s mahi-mahi in puttanesca sauce, baby back ribs half slab, chicken strips, salmon spinach, spicy fried chicken, spicy shrimp, crispy kare-kare (deep fried pork belly in peanut butter sauce), lechon kawali (crispy deep fried pork belly), Kowloon chicken and siomai (dumpling).
Bourbon Street also serves crab meat pasta, seafood spaghetti, squid ink pasta and shrimp linguine, burgers and a variety of pizza including pepperoni, Hawaiian and meat sauce with mushroom.
Complementing Bourbon Street’s whiskeys, cocktails, tropical and other drinks are the rib-eye steak, the garlic rib-eye steak and pepper steak, chicken feet, tuna poke, beef burrito, beef quesadilla, lumpia (spring roll) in chili sauce and Buffalo wings.
Since Bourbon Street Bar & Café opens at 11 a.m., you can also order bulalo (beef shank soup), pancit noodles, patatim (braised pork hock dish), longganisa (sausage) fried rice and shrimp fried rice.
To indulge the sweet tooth, Bourbon Street Bar & Café serves crème brulée, mango panna cotta and Oreo cheesecake.
Bourbon Street Bar & Café is a family business whose owners are the husband-and-wife teams of Noel and Eden Ordas and Butch and Ailene Ordas.
Eden Guillo Ordas, center, and co-owners Butch and Ailene Ordas, third and second right, celebrate with Father Chaui Borja, employees and guests after cutting the ribbon to open Bourbon Street Bar & Café in central Garapan on Friday.
