Baton Rouge Restaurants

Casual guide to food in the city!

Here is my guide to Baton Rouge restaurants. It contains restaurants that are unique to the area or prefered chains that aren't found on every street corner. I also have to have been to the restaurants I list. I've probably left a few out but these are the most notable places in my mind at the time of writing this. Feel free to drop me a line with a suggestion or a question. I try to put a short description thats not quite a review but just my general opinion of the place. I list mostly places I like since I don't even think of the places I don't. I try to put their official website links up for address and menu help if you're looking for that. I love to get email suggestions.

Update: August 2006: - I have alot more sites to add so I'm going to start categorizing them and moving them into their categories.

Baton Rouge Restaurant Guide:

Baton Rouge Italian Restaurants - The best places to eat Italian food.
Baton Rouge Seafood and Cajun Restaurants - I put these two together since seafood and cajun often are the same.
Baton Rouge Chinese and Asian Restaurants
Baton Rouge Mexican Restaurants - Where to get that margarita you're craving.

Other Baton Rouge Restaurants

Voodoo BBQ - [Official Site] - This is by far the best bbq restaurant in Baton Rouge. Its a small place with some outside seating in the new "keys Plaza" off of Drusilla.
George's Tavern [Official Site] - More of a bar than a restaurant but they've got some great poboy's and sandwiches. I love this place and regularly order from them. Good place to go sit for a few beers too.
Rocco's Poboys [Official Site] - Excellent New Orleans style poboys and sandwiches. Pretty cool bar too.
Walk-On's Bistreaux &Bar [Official Site] - A big supporter of LSU athletics and the Baton Rouge community. Walk-on's is a great hang out with great food. Located at corner of Nicholson Drive and Burbank.
The Jambalaya Shoppe [Official Site] - A small restaurant no larger than a Subway but the Jambalaya shoppe is a must try. They offer classic Louisiana cuisine. Jambalaya, Gumbo, Red beans n rice, crawfish pies, etc. Several locations most notable being Perkins off of Seigen lane and Gonzales.
Tsunami's Japanese Cuisine &Sushi bar [official site] is located on the top floor of the Shaw Center for the Arts in the newly renovated downtown area. On 3rd street. The view is beautiful and the food is excellent.
Fox and The Hound - This is a restaurant/bar that appears to be just a bar at first glance. If you're looking for a great place to go with co-workers thats close to Interstate in the hot spot over off of College drive then this is the place for you.
A &M Mart - If you're down at LSU for a football game and you want a great poboy sandwich or Pita then go to this little deli/store at the corner of Lee Drive and Nicholson. They make an incredibly tasty sandwich .
Mellow Mushroom [Official Site] - A pizza joint located on Burbank Drive towards LSU. A great place for pizza type food and at night its a pretty popular college bar. We've gone there a few nights for an open mic night that was packed house. Drink Specials.
Superior Grill [Official Site] - On Government St, this is one of the most popular mexican places in town. On Thursday night they have a band and one hell of a crowd.
Ninfa's - A great place to go for the whole family, its located on the service road right off of College and Interstate 10. Ninfa's has great service, great food and a damn good margarita. I've always been very happy going here.
Sullivan's Steak house - Right next door to Fox N Hound off of Corperate St. this place is where to go if you want a really good steak. Their [official site] actually has a good pitch that says exactly what they have to offer.
Kamado's - A kick ass sushi bar that has two locations. One on College and one on South Sherwood Forest Blvd. Kamado's is a locally owned and operated sushi and hibachi grill that I eat at very regularly.
Izzo's Illegal Burrito [Official Site] - I remember when this place first opened near LSU. You could buy a burrito the size of a medium pizza for not too much money. Kind of like Taco Bell / Subway here as its assembly line Mexican food. Pretty good though.

If you own or just want to recommend any great Baton Rouge restaurants I don't have listed here then please mail them to me at Baton Rouge restaurants at jerryodom.com and I'll see about listing them here for you. If you've got a website for a restaurant in the area I'd love to see it too. Linking to Baton Rouge places helps.

Baton Rouge Searches:

Update: Restaurant Guide and DMOZ

I volunteered to be the DMOZ editor for Baton Rouge Restaurants and Bars and was accepted. This is cool because DMOZ rankings help with search engine rankings so I get to place the websites of all the good Baton Rouge restaurants in DMOZ. This way when people search for places to eat around here instead of getting spam or generic junk they'll get the real websites for these local establishments. So my guide extends to DMOZ now if you want more information go look there. Mind that not all the websites I list here will be listed there because there I'm specifically listing establishments found only in the city of Baton Rouge.