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# Restaurant week: a few suggestions from us
- URL: https://www.redeyebr.com/restaurant-week-a-few-suggestions-from-us/
- Published: 2026-07-15T23:17:50.000Z
- Updated: 2026-07-15T23:17:50.000Z
- Description: Some local eateries will have prix-fixe menus next week, a chance to spend a little and try dishes that are not on the regular menus. Go someplace you haven't been.
- Author: Mukul Verma
- Tags: Get Out, Food

Restaurant Week returns all next week, giving Baton Rouge a reason to eat well while helping local restaurants through the slowest stretch of summer.

**Why it matters:** July can be punishing for restaurants. Families travel, routines disappear and dining rooms thin out. A strong [Restaurant Week](https://digbr.com/restaurant-week?ref=redeyebr.com) can help carry them into August, when people return to their lives and begin preparing for college football season.

**The fun part:** Chefs often use the week to loosen up, introducing new dishes and trying ideas that may not appear on the regular menu. It is a chance for them to show off their chops—and for the rest of us to eat well.

*RedEye* scanned the available menus for dishes that sounded novel, delicious or both. Here are a few that caught our eye:

**The Bullfish:** Caribbean Seafood Paella, with saffron rice, shrimp, mussels, crawfish and crab, finished with the chef’s signature Caribbean seasoning.

**Bistro Byronz on Government:** Champagne Crevette Pasta, made with shrimp and angel hair pasta tossed with cherry tomatoes and sautéed spinach in a champagne cream sauce. It comes with a sliced baguette, presumably to make sure you clean your plate, as your parents demanded.

**Cecelia Creole Bistro:** Hunter’s Gumbo with tasso, venison sausage and duck from Chef Mark Reilly, a man dedicated to the serious business of making soup. Also tempting: jerk fried chicken with red beans and andouille sausage over Louisiana rice. The red beans are already among the best around.

**Southdowns Grille:** Homestyle Duck Meatloaf with creamed potatoes, wild mushroom jus, roasted carrots and scallions. Or Redfish on the Halfshell with crab butter, toasted almonds and chives. Choosing between them may require a second visit. This new restaurant has quickly established itself as among the best in the parish.

**Nino’s:** The lunch-only Smoked Turkey Pastrami Reuben, built with turkey pastrami, homemade sauerkraut, provolone and signature Russian dressing on grilled rye bread. It comes with a chilled antipasto salad. Nino’s also has a separate dinner menu. Nino’s hidden location inside a strip center is forgettable; the food is not. 

**A note before you go:** Not every participating restaurant had posted its menu when we looked. Check the [Restaurant Week website](https://digbr.com/restaurant-week?ref=redeyebr.com) before making your choice—and make reservations. Dining rooms can get crowded, which is good news for the restaurants.

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