OT: Baton Rouge?

JohnInCarolina

I’m going to be down in Baton Rouge for a couple of days this week for a workshop at LSU. I’ve never been, and I’m not sure how much time I’ll have to get out for lunch or dinner, but if any of you have restaurant/bbq recs for the area please post them here.

Thanks in advance!

lousubcap

Just rent a high performance machine and road trip to meet up with @nolaegghead.  Even if that is too far out there, gotta be great groceries await.  Screw the Q-cajun for the win.  

Battleborn

Not sure about Baton Rouge per se, but when we lived in Texas we rode through Louisiana a lot. Ate at a ton of hole in the wall type places that looked like they should receive an F from the health inspector. Luckily no one died, but it was some good eats.

JohnInCarolina

lousubcap said:

Just rent a high performance machine and road trip to meet up with @nolaegghead.  Even if that is too far out there, gotta be great groceries await.  Screw the Q-cajun for the win.  

I’ll be hanging out with Nola for a couple of days around the weekend.  

Mickey

The grilled oysters are outstanding 

thetrim

Two must stops:

Tony's seafood - Boudin Balls and crawfish etoufee (I prefer w/o rice)

Louisiana Langniappe - Best house salad on the planet.  I'd probably just ask for a whole bowl of that and nothing else.

nolaegghead

https://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g40024-d1020782-Reviews-DiGiulio_Brothers_Italian_Cafe-Baton_Rouge_Louisiana.html

nolaegghead

That's my neighbor's family restaurant. (Aka brisket camp lawyers) 

thetrim

Do they serve vegan chili?

northGAcock

Had a hotdog at Tiger Stadium once. Not recommended dinning. 

HendersonTRKing

A fave from a long time ago . . . if you get there, I'd love to hear that's it's still awesome.

http://www.jubans.com/#home

Don't miss the Duck Camp Poppers.

nolaegghead

Did someone say "duck"?   This was a conversation today....

YukonRon

R&O's Seafood for no nonsense fried goodness.

JohnInCarolina

We went to this place for dinner tonight.  Was pretty damn good:

https://www.mansursontheboulevard.com/main/home

ColbyLang

JohnInCarolina said:

We went to this place for dinner tonight.  Was pretty damn good:

https://www.mansursontheboulevard.com/main/home

One of my customers. How was the bread? If you’re interested in Italian, go to Little Village. Order the village bread (also mine) as an appetizer 

JohnInCarolina

ColbyLang said:

JohnInCarolina said:

We went to this place for dinner tonight.  Was pretty damn good:

https://www.mansursontheboulevard.com/main/home

One of my customers. How was the bread? If you’re interested in Italian, go to Little Village. Order the village bread (also mine) as an appetizer 

The bread was great!  That’s your bread?  Very cool.

ColbyLang

Yes, we have a very large presence in Baton Rouge as well as Lafayette and the closer cities. Due a lot of volume out of state frozen. Mainly the gulf coast. Glad you enjoyed

thetrim

Did you stop by Tony's yet?

xfire_ATX

I spent 2 weeks there when I was just starting out my professional career- been so long no idea where I ate but it was all good.

Went there this summer for the kid to tour LSU and every place we tried was closed fro some reason.

Just keep in mind its Crawfish season so Im sure there are plenty of options for that.

JRWhitee

I heard Popeyes is good there.

Foghorn

I've heard from a coworker that you can get some great nutria gumbo there.  

Although that may just be at his mom's house.