Bistro and pasta bar coming in November

Breck’s Bistro and Pasta Bar aims to open in early November on Burbank Drive in the space that formerly housed a Qdoba restaurant (Map it!).

Restaurant owner Breck Mapp, who has been in the restaurant business for 20 years, says the menu will feature a variety of pasta dishes—from barbecue shrimp pasta to spinach and artichoke pasta—as well as paninis and salads.

Renovation on the 2,466-square-foot restaurant will begin in the coming weeks, Mapp says, and when completed it will seat roughly 85 people inside and 15 on an outdoor patio. Mapp describes the restaurant as “industrial-themed” with “a lot of hard corners.”

“It will have a small alcohol bar and a pasta bar where you can sit at the counter and watch the chefs at the back cooking,” he says.

The restaurant hopes to capitalize on its proximity to Tiger Stadium, which is less than a mile away.

“I think that the menu we’ve come up with definitely will cater to the LSU clientele as well as young professionals,” Mapp says.

Mapp hopes Breck’s Bistro and Pasta Bar will be the “first of many.” —Rachel Alexander