After years of watching Baton Rouge’s dining scene evolve, 225 magazine felt that area restaurants deserved their own year-end retrospective.
Baton Rouge still has a number of Cajun and Creole options, but the city has also grown into a magnet for food trends like poke and bubble tea, as well as national chains.
This year, Baton Rouge got a stunning, open-air beer garden with 50-plus craft beers on tap, more than one new rooftop bars, Asian street food, Spanish tapas and Mexican nopales.
225 narrowed down its list by placing most emphasis on first-time, full-service openings that launched between October 2018 and October 2019. From there, the magazine used reader feedback to do the work.
The list includes the Mid City Beer Garden, Bumsteers, Chow Yum Phat, Blue Corn Tequila and Taco and more. See the year in review here.
