Palace Café — Louisiana / Breakfast, Baton Rouge
The Palace Café has been on Government Street since 1922. A Louisiana morning institution that has served the state government, the university, and the surrounding neighborhood through a century of Louisiana history. The coffee is still the same and the biscuits still arrive hot.
The biscuits here. Louisiana-style, layered and buttered, served with cane syrup or the house preserves. Are the morning's central act. The eggs and the Louisiana sausage exist to support them.
The coffee is the Louisiana chicory variety. The French and African tradition that New Orleans made famous and that the Palace Café has been brewing for a hundred years. It is the correct coffee for a Louisiana morning.
The Government Street location means the Palace Café has always served the state's political class. The legislators, lobbyists, and government workers who start every session day here and whose conversations have shaped Louisiana's political history.
Best Occasion: Perfect for Solo Dining
Louisiana chicory coffee, hot biscuits with cane syrup, and the Government Street morning. Solo dining's most specifically Baton Rouge start.
Best Occasion: Works for First Dates
The Louisiana morning date. Chicory coffee, biscuits, and the 100-year-old café that political Louisiana starts its day in.