Restaurants in Baton Rouge, LA

Baton Rouge lists 1,213 places in this guide, and 867 are restaurants. Quick service accounts for 124, cafes for 70 and bars for 144. Bars (141), coffee shops and cafes (72) and sandwiches and delis (68) are the top categories among the listed places.

Baton Rouge's 54.9 places per ten thousand residents sit well above the 41.8 median across all cities.

784 listings are independent; the chains that show up most are Subway (29), McDonald's (23), Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen (11) and Burger King (11).

In the Servestack Independent Restaurant Index, Baton Rouge ranks #147 of 332 large US cities for the share of places that are independent.

Food in Baton Rouge by cuisine

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Place data from the Overture Maps Foundation (overturemaps.org), which includes data from Meta, Microsoft and Foursquare, used under the CDLA Permissive 2.0 and Apache 2.0 licenses. Restaurants open, close and move; check with the restaurant before you go. Data refreshed 2026-10-11.