Baton Rouge restaurants offering Lent specials: Know where to go
BATON ROUGE, La. (BRPROUD) — Looking for dine-in restaurants that offer Lent options? Several Baton Rouge restaurants will be serving tasty, unique specials for Lent. These restaurants around the area offer a selection of different seafood and vegetarian options.
Ash Wednesday signals the start of Lent, the 40-day season of feasting and prayer. In 2024, it runs from Wednesday, Feb. 14 to Thursday, Mar. 28. Eating meat, such as chicken, beef and pork, is abstained from on Fridays.
Check out some of these restaurants in the capital city, where they each put their special touch on their seafood dishes and special meals during Lent.
Did you know you can eat more animals than fish on Fridays in Lent? Here’s a list
The Gregory
The Gregory has several options for lunch and dinner, including a fried catfish taco, fried oyster po-boy, cauliflower bites, roaster Brussel sprouts, smoked shrimp rillettes, softshell crab linguine, vegan scallops, bronzed fish and or king salmon.
Where: 150 Third St.
Willie’s Restaurant
WIllie’s Restaurant’s menu offers many great options during Lent, including fish tacos, fried green tomatoes, bayou salad, grilled shrimp po’boy, the Waylon, fish and shrimp, and redfish Ryn.
Where: 11260 Coursey Blvd.
River Rouge Kitchen & Bar
River Rouge Kitchen & Bar has a variety of Cajun cuisine, seafood plates, and craft beers. Try some of their starters or enjoy one of their select seafood entrees.
Where: 550 Hilton Ave.
The Kingfish Grill
The Kingfish Grill menu provides a selection of seafood options, including a hummus plate, shrimp cocktail, Louisiana crawfish pies, a variety of house salads, blackened salmon, crawfish linguini and seafood platter Pontchartrain.
Where: 201 Lafayette St.
Crawford’s Restaurant
Crawford’s Restaurants has a selection of their ‘South’s best seafood lunches.’ Those options include a catfish lunch with two sides, chargrilled catfish and shrimp with two sides, chargrilled catfish lunch with two sides, and Ken’s creole with two sides.
Where: 1980 Staring Lane.
Beausoleil Coastal Cuisine
Beausoleil Coastal Cuisine has several options for lunch and dinner for Lent. The restaurant has an oyster bar that customers can choose from or a variety of small plates. Some of their main course entrees include fish Jean Louis, Chilean seabass, lobster mac and cheese and popcorn-crusted scallops.
Where: 7731 Jefferson Hwy.
Drusilla Seafood Restaurant
Drusilla Seafood Restaurant will provide a ton of options on their main menu. Some of their favorites include a fried seafood platter, shrimp platter, crab platter, broiled seafood platter, Drusilla chilled platter and seafood eggplant casserole.
Where: 3482 Drusilla Lane.
Eliza Restaurant
Eliza Restaurant offers a variety of options on their lunch and dinner menu. Their entree selections include a fried fish sandwich, paneed fish, shrimp and grits, grilled gulf fish, corn-fried local seafood and Eliza crab cakes.
Where: 7970 Jefferson Hwy.
Superior Bar & Grill MidCity
Some of Superior’s Bar Lenten specials include a Yucatan lime soup, grilled veggies quesadilla, Lent grilled avocados, seven-layer Camaron salad, grilled veggies burrito bowl, and a Lent wrap.
Where: 5435 Government St.
The Bullfish Bistro
The Bullfish Bistro has a selection of vegan and seafood options on its menu. Their vegan selections include avocado beets salad, Caribbean pasta, legume wrap, fresh wrap and a strawberry chickpea salad.
Where: 14241 Airline Hwy. Suite 105.
More places to get Lenten meals in Baton Rouge
There are more seafood restaurants that are provided in the Baton Rouge area. Here are the top 10 seafood restaurants in Baton Rouge, according to Trip Advisor:
Louisiana Lagniappe Restaurant
Parrain’s Seafood Restaurant
Mansurs on the Boulevard
Southern Pearl Oyster House
Tony’s Seafood
Acme Oyster House
Sammy’s Grill Highland
The Chimes Restaurant & Tap Room
Cecelia Creole Bistro
Roux 61 Seafood & Grill
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