Finely chopped at Stroube’s

For the nearly five-year span between the completion of the Shaw Center for the Arts and this spring, the gutted shell of retail space at the corner of Third Street and North Boulevard thumbed its nose at the idea that significant progress was being made in downtown Baton Rouge. But with the transformation of an old 1950s-era drugstore and soda fountain into an upscale steakhouse, the gateway to downtown’s proposed Arts & Entertainment District finally has an anchor restaurant. Find out more about this new downtown establishment in this month’s 225 by clicking here.