‘Garden Gun’ highlights B.R.’s growing culinary scene

“After a lifetime in the shadows of its culinarily renowned neighbors, Louisiana’s capital city is finally cooking,” reads the opening of a new profile of Baton Rouge in Garden & Gun magazine. The piece is written by former Baton Rouge resident Rien Fertel, who says, “I have always found Baton Rouge to be geographically and culturally ‘unorientable,’ with a river lined by casinos and industry, a farrago of congested highways, infamously corrupt government, and a massive university plunked in its midst.” But since Hurricane Katrina, Fertel says things have changed. “Baton Rouge has witnessed large numbers of formerly itinerant, culinary-minded young professionals root themselves in this city rather than New Orleans,” the profile says. “And these chefs, farmers, and other entrepreneurs are redistricting the city’s gastronomic map.” The complete profile highlights Tin Roof Brewery, Dolce Vita, Restaurant IPO, Magpie Café, Juban’s, Beausoleil Restaurant & Bar, among other local eateries and bars. Check it out here.