Restaurants & Retail

Despite LSU moving Saturday’s planned home game to Missouri due to Hurricane Delta, Baton Rouge’s hospitality industry is heading into this weekend expecting a boost in business—which, at first glance, may seem counterintuitive.

Business Lunch: Kalurah Street Grill, under the Perkins Road Overpass, features contemporary American cuisine and its signature spicy fried chicken.

Big John’s Fast Fries, billed as a “startup french fry concept,” is moving into the South Sherwood Forest Boulevard building most recently vacated by Best Boilers.

After being shut down for essentially six months, Baton Rouge doubt reopening so close to the fourth quarter will remedy the significant damage done to their industry, especially given the restrictions.

Nearly seven months after the first round of COVID-19 restrictions were issued, restaurants in Baton Rouge and New Orleans are still posting layoffs. 

Hughes is in the process of opening a new Mexican restaurant, Rio Tacos and Tequila, on the ground floor of the building, beneath City Bar, and is one of many projects in the works for the local restaurateur. 

Red Stick Social has laid off most of its staff, manager Will Durham tells...

Lululemon is moving into the outparcel in the Acadian Village Shopping Center that formerly housed Provisions on Perkins and, previously, Galatoire’s.

Business Lunch: Pizza Byronz, located in Willow Grove, offers pizza three ways as well as pasta, sandwiches and its popular burgers.

Business owners and many conservative elected officials are praising Gov. John Bel Edwards’ announcement that the state will move to phase three.