Bucky’s Delight: a haven for foodies

Oct 02, 2022 News

==Cuisine Culture==

By Renay Sambach

Kaieteur News – With a variety of satisfying dishes to quell your cravings there is Bucky’s Delight – the ideal place for foodies. You certainly don’t have to be shy when choosing from the chicken bar, sides, tacos, pasta, seafood, pastry and dessert menu, for they are impossible to exhaust.

Apart from their daily menu, the business caters to events such as birthdays, weddings, anniversaries, graduation, baby showers, bridal showers and thanksgiving.

In fact, at the food establishment, which is located at Lot 321 Charles Street, Parika, East Bank Essequibo, there is a preorder system and these, like all other orders, are catered to during the hours of 11:00 to 19:00, Monday through Saturday.

Among the tantalizing deliciousness offered at this haven for foodies are ham and cheese puffs, strawberry cupcake, spicy cheese straws, rainbow sandwich, donuts, chicken puffs, eclairs, cheese straw, and baked custard. There are even more amazing choices on the dessert menu including: cheese cake, chocolate cake and custard block.

And if you happen to be a lover of seafoods, there is a menu with mouthwatering treats like seafood boil, Cajun prawns and garlic prawns.

You can also choose to satisfy your taste buds with wings and fries, chicken and fries, fish and fries, baked potatoes and stuffed chicken, burger box, loaded hotdog combo, Rasta pasta, shrimp pasta, Mac and Cheese, onion rings, garden salad, stir fried veggies, chicken/beef taco, ripe plantain pie, loaded fries, prawns pasta or crab curry.

Shakes are also made to perfection at this food joint with flavours like strawberry, blue berry, banana, Oreo, vanilla, chocolate, and mixed berries that are available on demand.

The business, which was introduced back in April 2018, is owned by 23-year-old Lashona Rushella Joseph. She, during a recent interview with this publication, said, “Well I always had a passion for cooking but after leaving school I wanted to become an immigration officer so I applied. While waiting on the response, I did a cake course and started to do cakes in my free time and that’s when I realised that I have a passion for the kitchen.”

Although, she eventually became an immigration officer, Lashona said that she realised that, that career path simply couldn’t rival her passion for cooking. As such she decided to give up that path and focus her attention on her own business – a decision she has not regretted.

“I joined the police force in 2020 but then I realised that it’s not for me so I withdrew my service in January of this year and that’s when I started paying more attention to my business and I started becoming more creative to draw customers’ attention,” she shared.

The hardworking and dedicated woman, who grew up around a food business, said, “being around the business for my entire life made it very easy for me to handle myself and deal with my customers.”

Meanwhile, on October 16, 2022, she is planning to have a grand opening of another branch at the Vintage Commercial Plaza located at Vergenogen, EBE. “When that restaurant opens the working hours will be every day from 07:00hrs to 22:00hrs,” she proudly quipped.

Her long-term goal is to have her business expand exponentially in the future, perhaps even globally. But in the next five years, she hopes to be recognised as the owner of “one of Guyana’s finest restaurants.”