Restaurants & Retail

Restaurants, shops, and retailers across the Baton Rouge area — openings, closings, expansions, and the people behind them.

Chicken Shack owners planning new restaurant near LSU

Joe Delpit, owner of Chicken Shack, considered by many to be Baton Rouge’s longest running restaurant, received a permit late last week to begin construction on a new Highland Road restaurant.

See this entrepreneur’s tricks for getting past the first lull

"Once you start out, after that stage of being new and exciting, that's is where the hard work comes in," Kirsha Barker says.

Walk-On’s to open non-traditional location through Aramark partnership

Baton Rouge-based Walk-On's today announced a new partnership with college food service provider Aramark, where the restaurant will anchor a new "Purdue Marketplace" on the university’s West Lafayette campus in Indiana.

Williams Sonoma closing its Mall of Louisiana location

The Williams Sonoma location in the Mall of Louisiana is set to close on Jan. 31, store staff confirmed today.

Baton Rouge’s retail sector remains stable as pandemic wears on real estate

Given the financial pounding retailers have absorbed during COVID-19, it would seem the last place one would find a real estate commercial bright spot is in the retail sector.

Ruffino’s planning on business as usual in the wake of Rodrigue’s death

Nearly three weeks after well-known restaurateur Ruffin Rodrigue’s unexpected death from a heart attack, plans are in place to keep Rodrigue’s signature Highland Road restaurant, Ruffino’s, up and running, as well as two sister establishments—Ruffino’s on the River in Lafayette and Ruffino’s Catering at De La Ronde Hall downtown.

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