Restaurants & Retail

The Capital Region’s social calendar has been mostly wiped out due to the ongoing pandemic, leaving the area’s caterers and event planners struggling amid a lack of business this holiday season.

Those in Baton Rouge’s business community remember the late Ruffin Rodrigue as a larger-than-life figure who loved to celebrate and advocated tirelessly for Louisiana restaurants.

Baton Rouge retailers noticed little, if any, difference in business Friday and Saturday, when Louisiana’s state sales tax wasn’t charged on most purchases under a one-time sales tax holiday aimed to help people struggling with the coronavirus pandemic and recovering from hurricanes Laura and Delta.

Nearly a month after Louisiana Lagniappe restaurant owner Kevin Ortego complained to the Louisiana...

Longtime patrons of one of Baton Rouge’s best known local eateries—George’s—may be wondering about...

Colleen Waguespack is expanding her business into items and gifts for other special occasions. 

Following the shutdown of retailers earlier this year at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, local shop owners are concerned about what another shutdown from rising cases could mean for their traditional holiday shopping season. 

After 72 years in business, including 35 years in its current location in the Bocage Village Shopping Center, Jules Madere Jewelers is closing its doors.

Beausoleil has been a Baton Rouge staple for years. New owner and local restaurateur...

Shipley Do-Nuts & Kolaches is coming back to Baton Rouge, with a location slated to open in a retail center on Essen Lane near Picardy Avenue.