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Reader’s Choice

Top Healthy Eats in Baton Rouge
1. Magpie Café

James Jacobs and his wife Lina opened the doors of Magpie
in May of 2012 located at 3205 Perkins Road in Baton
Rouge following a career in sales spanning 20 years. Before
moving back to Baton Rouge, James and Lina lived in
Boston, ad Charleston and loved the concept of a farm to
table restaurant where you didn’t have to leave to get good
coffee.  As Baton Rouge’s only “3rd wave coffee house.”
(Serving high-quality coffee, and consider coffee as an artisanal foodstuff, like wineries treat grapes.)

In addition to high quality coffee, Magpie offers a fresh,
new menu daily. To keep things fun for themselves, James
and Lina had the cool idea to create a new menu daily—
written on a chalkboard in the restaurant and posted on
facebook. These menu items include a plant-based salad, hot
soup (cold soups in summer), and sandwiches on ciabatta
bread including a meat and/or veggie panini.  All breads are
baked fresh from a local artisan baker. (www.magpiecafebrla.com/)

2 Serops Café

Located at 6301 Perkins Road in Baton Rouge (across from
Pennington Biomedical Research Center) is owned and
operated by Suzie and John Kaltakjian since April 1998.
They pride themselves in fresh ingredients with consistent,
delicious flavor. Their most popular dish is the Chicken
Schwarma. Customers often enter the restaurant and don’t
look at the menu. They already know what they want. Their
restaurant is most popular for families, couples, working
professionals, and for catered events.  (225-767-5500)

3. India’s Restaurant-5230 Essen Lane-The best in Baton
Rouge for Indian cuisine--naturally provides an incredible
variety of seasoned and spiced vegetables. A daily buffet
allows the customer to try a full gambit of Indian dishes and
well-seasoned vegetables. 

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4. Mellow Mushroom

4250 Burbank Drive--Since 1974, their mission has be [