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22-year-old Baton Rouge bartender is a bookworm, humble spirit. Here’s why regulars love him.

The bar buzzes with motion most evenings at DiGiulio Brothers Italian Cafe in Baton Rouge. Families, old friends and couples on date nights fill the seats, boisterous chatter sounds through the room, and the newspaper’s October bartender of the month thrives at the center of it. In the midst of the bustling restaurant, Thomas Myer, a 22-year-old from Baton Rouge, mixes espresso martinis, old fashions and negronis.

Baton Rouge, LA · 15d
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Rum, Tequila and an 1895 Power Building: Touring NOEL Family Distillery in Donaldsonville

Donaldsonville sits about 40 minutes down the river from Baton Rouge, and it's worth the drive for one reason in particular: a family distillery making spirits inside a building that once kept the town's lights on. ## A father and daughter at the still. NOEL Family Distillery is run by...

Donaldsonville, LA · 17d
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Kleinpeter Eggnog Season: Baton Rouge's Hometown Dairy and Its 1975 Holiday Recipe

Some Baton Rouge holiday traditions come with a cartoon heart on the label. When the weather finally turns, plenty of local families start checking the dairy case for one carton in particular: Kleinpeter Egg Nog. A dairy with deep roots. Kleinpeter Farms Dairy has been bottling milk for South Louisiana...

Baton Rouge, LA · 15d
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Wine tasting to benefit SLU Sims Library

The group Friends of Sims Library is hosting its 18th annual Wine with Friends, a fundraiser for Southeastern Louisiana University’s Linus A. Sims Memorial Library, at 7 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 6, at the library. The front doors open at 6:30 p.m., and the wine tasting begins at 7...

Hammond, LA · 16d
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Louie’s Cafe enters a new chapter under longtime employee’s ownership

One of Baton Rouge’s longest-running restaurants is beginning a new chapter, with a familiar face taking the lead.

Baton Rouge, LA · 27d

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Third Street nightclub Violet is closing doors at start of 2027, the owner announces

BATON ROUGE — A Third Street nightclub is closing its doors at the start of 2027, the owner announced Tuesday. Violet, which is in the former location of Boudreaux and Thibodeaux's, will close on Jan. 1, David Facey said in an Instagram post. Facey said that he is "tired...

Baton Rouge, LA · 28d

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25 Years on Perkins Road: Parrain's Seafood Keeps Mid City Fed

In Louisiana, your parrain is your godfather, the one who shows up with something good. On Perkins Road, Parrain's Seafood has been playing that role for Mid City diners since September 2001. That makes 2026 the restaurant's 25th year, a quarter century of plates heading out of the kitchen with...

Baton Rouge, LA · 18d

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10 Old-School Louisiana Breakfast Spots Where Cinnamon Rolls Barely Fit On The Plate

One Louisiana breakfast counter changed its name, then tucked a note about the old one right into its official listing. It basically says, relax, same kitchen, new label. The rolls are the real story. Menus around the state use words like large and seasonal for their cinnamon rolls. One morning...

Louisiana · 20d

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Build It, Fire It, Eat It: How LIT Pizza Became a Capital Region Weeknight Staple

Picture a pizza line where you point, pile on and then watch your pie disappear into a wood-fired oven. That is the whole idea at LIT Pizza, a privately held company based in Baton Rouge that has spread across the Capital Region and beyond. Your pie, your way. Every pizza...

Baton Rouge, LA · 18d

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Christmas Blend Is Back: Community Coffee's Seasonal Lineup and the Baton Rouge Story Behind It

There's a sure sign the holidays are close in South Louisiana: the red Christmas Blend bag shows up next to the coffee maker again. Community Coffee lists Christmas Blend as available October through December. It's a medium roast of African and South American coffees, with notes of milk chocolate, golden raisin and figs. A 10-count box of K-Cup pods is $9.99 on the company's online store.

Baton Rouge, LA · 17d

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The Jambalaya Shoppe in Denham Springs Adds a Buffet, With a Ribbon Cutting Oct. 27

Denham Springs has a new reason to grab a plate and go back for seconds. The Jambalaya Shoppe on Magnolia Beach Road has added a buffet, and the Livingston Parish Chamber of Commerce is throwing it a ribbon cutting next week. The celebration. The ribbon cutting is Tuesday, Oct. 27,...

Denham Springs, LA · 19d

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Sweet Potato Pie Season Is Back at Hi Nabor, Baton Rouge's Homegrown Supermarket

Some grocery store traditions are better than a calendar. At Hi Nabor, fall officially starts when the Signature Sweet Potato Pies come back out of the oven, and they have been back since Oct. 1. The pies are a limited, once-a-year run, and the store keeps the recipe simple: real...

Baton Rouge, LA · 17d

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Beignets Since 1976: Why Coffee Call on College Drive Is Still a Baton Rouge Ritual

Some Baton Rouge traditions involve a tailgate. This one involves powdered sugar on your shirt. Coffee Call has been pouring cafe au lait and frying beignets in Baton Rouge since 1976, when the Cannatella family founded it. Nearly 50 years later it is still family-owned and operated, and it still works as a meeting spot for students, families and business people who need a table and a warm cup.

Baton Rouge, LA · 18d

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The Family-Owned Chicken Restaurant Baton Rouge Locals Have Loved Longer Than Raising Cane's And Popeyes

The world loves fried chicken in many forms. From karaage to schnitzel to ayam goreng, there are many methods and variations for frying chicken around the globe, but in the United States, Southern fried chicken has a chokehold on the nation. Nationwide, Popeyes and Raising Cane's are usually the most popular names in Louisiana-style fried chicken, yet there's one fried chicken restaurant in Baton Rouge, LA that's been serving "knuckle suckin' good" fried chicken for decades longer than either of those chains: Chicken Shack.

Baton Rouge, LA · 10-12

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Bingo winners at Madisonville bar go home green

At The Lit Rooster in Madisonville, bingo winners now take home plants.

Madisonville, LA · 20d

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Boutique Furniture and Interior Design Chain Expanding to Baton Rouge

J Allan's is a Mississippi-based interior design chain

Baton Rouge, LA · 19d

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West Baton Rouge Council votes to rezone warehouse for development of Community Coffee distribution facility

PORT ALLEN — The West Baton Rouge Parish Council voted to rezone a former warehouse in Port Allen for the development of a new coffee processing and distribution facility for Community Coffee. The council on Thursday unanimously voted to rezone the old Conn's Warehouse from an Industrial Transitional Industrial...

Port Allen, LA · 18d

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No Cover, No Reservations: Inside The Colonel's Club Piano Bar on Perkins Road

Most Baton Rouge bars want you to shout over the music. At The Colonel's Club on Perkins Road, the piano is tuned to conversation. The building has a story before you even order. Entrepreneur and pilot Col. Jesse Lee Sheppard built it in 1936 as a mechanical shop and airplane hangar near what would become the Perkins Road Overpass. According to the club, he often flew Gov. Huey Long. Over the decades the building served as an electrical shop, a refrigeration school, a voting precinct and, in the 1960s, a private club with live music and gambling called The Colonel's Club. Today it holds a restaurant, a lounge and event space under the old name.

Baton Rouge, LA · 19d

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Baton Rouge chain with donuts, coffee and burgers is opening a third location. See where and when.

Locally owned chain Donuts Coffee and Burgers will open a third location in Baton Rouge this week. A new sign has been posted at 1955 Staring Lane, Studio E, for Donuts Coffee and Burgers — a Baton Rouge-born business that opened its first location in February 2024 at 3617 S. Sherwood Forest Blvd. The third location, equipped with a drive-thru, will host a soft opening at 4:30 a.m. Oct. 22, according to owner Sambou Menach.

Baton Rouge, LA · 20d