Fans of Another Broken Egg Café on Old Hammond may have gotten a little jittery when they noticed the sign gone from the building's façade—but never fear, the restaurant isn't closing. Another Broken Egg is simply hatching into a new concept: LaLou. "Everything is going to stay the same," says owner Mark Dixon reassuringly. "The only changes are that the menu is getting bigger, and we've got a new logo." Another Broken Egg began branching out into dinner service around February of this year, introducing pasta dishes, steaks and fresh fish entrees on their daily special menu. Although dinner proved popular with devotees, Dixon reports having "trouble attracting new customers for evening dining at a place called Another Broken Egg." Dixon mulled it over, and made the difficult and unusual decision to change the restaurant's name. "We're ditching three years of branding," he admits, "and we're worried we'll lose some customers with it, but everything at the restaurant is the same. Same wait staff, same cooks, same food—just more of it." The new entrees will focus on Southern Louisiana cooking: paneed redfish, seafood jambalaya, crabmeat au gratin and baby back ribs populate the new menu, alongside such established breakfast favorites as sweet potato pancakes and three-egg omelets. The newly christened LaLou will be open daily from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Thursday, till 10 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, and will close at 3 p.m. on Sundays.

The name has changed but the idea is the same—just more focused. "225 Best Eats," featuring weekly specials from some of Baton Rouge's best restaurants, will launch in September, replacing the more broadly conceived "Best Deals." "Great food is first and foremost in Louisiana, and we decided that would be our focus for now," says Julio Melara, publisher of 225. "We think our readers will love it." Subscribers to the free newsletter will be notified weekly about how they can enjoy great food at a special price, with discount offers of up to 50% off or more. "225 Best Eats" e-mail will be sent each Thursday to subscribers and feature "special offers on culinary creations from great chefs and restaurants." A bonus for early subscribers: If you sign up now, you'll receive a chance to win your choice of two New Orleans Saints tickets with limo transport to the game, a $500 shopping spree, or an Apple iPad! Registration for the free e-mail service and the promotion is now open at 225besteats.com.

Galatoire’s Bistro in Baton Rouge has announced the appointment of Louisiana native Robert Bustillo as its new executive chef. Bustillo was first hired at Galatoire’s as a lead line cook in 1998, then moved on to several prestigious chef positions in and around the South. Last year, Bustillo returned to Galatoire’s New Orleans to serve as executive sous chef at the flagship restaurant, the very best preparation for his donning the hat of new executive chef now at Galatoire’s Bistro. “We have some exciting plans for Galatoire’s Bistro on the horizon,” says Chief Operating Officer Melvin Rodrigue. “I am confident in Chef Bustillo’s ability to carry the torch and continue the Galatoire’s tradition as executive chef in Baton Rouge.”

Carreta literally means "the wagon" in Spanish, and for 12 years Queretaro, Mexico, native Saul Rubio's American-style Tex-Mex restaurants have slowly rolled, wagon-like, into the south Louisiana landscape. Rubio began his enterprise, now with eight locations, in the late 1990s with the original La Carreta in Hammond, where he had moved. Baton Rougeans know the restaurateur best for his Government Street location directly across from Calandro's Supermarket; but Rubio recently opened a second Baton Rouge location, on Bluebonnet Boulevard, on top of debuting his own beer and tequila brands. With sidewalk seating and rockin' bands playing Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings, La Carreta boasts a lively cantina-like atmosphere for downing frozen margaritas, cool ceviche or sizzling fajitas and dozens of other Latin-inspired favorites. Click here to see what our secret diners thought of La Carreta.

Big move to the Big Easy: Yesterday, Chef John Folse announced a new partnership with Chicago Chef Rick Tramonto. The two chefs presented plans to form a company called Home on the Range, with its first eatery, Restaurant R'evolution, slated to open in the Royal Sonesta Hotel in New Orleans early next summer, reports The Times-Picayune. Tramonto, who runs Tru, one of Chicago's top restaurants, is a James Beard Award winner who has appeared on Top Chef and Top Chef Masters. Tramonto told The Times-Picayune he became friends with Folse after he started serving cheese from Bittersweet Plantation Dairy. Tramanto, who says he plans to move his family to New Orleans because he's sick of Chicago winters, will be one of the celebrity judges at the Baton Rouge Epicurean Society's Fete Rouge this weekend.

Finding her place: Dorothy LeBlanc may be better known around Baton Rouge as one-half of the acoustic folk duo The Buskers, or as the eponymous singer of Miss Dorothy's Shaky-Egg Band, but this entertainer plans to soon add a new title to her résumé: business owner. Her new coffeehouse, to be named The Third Place, will be located at the corner of Sherwood Forest and Florida Boulevards, and is set to open around the beginning of October. "I got the name from the idea of the Third Place," LeBlanc says, "somewhere other than work or home, where you can relax and not feel the pressure of either of those places." The Third Place will serve coffee and handmade bakery and breakfast items, but LeBlanc also has more ambitious plans for the space—rental meeting rooms for specific events, daily acoustic concerts, child-oriented and senior citizen-centric music workshops, among many other things. Above all, LeBlanc says, "I want it to be somewhere where people can come have a cup of coffee and hang out."

"I'd have to say Juban's is my obsession. Now, what would I order there? Definitely the carousel oysters. Of course, I think all the food is delicious, the atmosphere is great, the cocktails are fabulous … but I think they just do the best job with the carousel idea. Bienville, Rockefeller and especially the Maxwell with the jalapenos—I love it so much I order it as an entrée."

Find out who else in Baton Rouge has food obsessions by clicking here.        

All Hallow's Feast: Dine at On the Border next Wednesday, September 1, and support Baton Rouge's new Halloween Parade at the same time. 10% of all food sales from 5 p.m. till close will be donated to the 10/31 Consortium, the organization behind the new event. Don't miss the cocktail social at 7:30 p.m., and be sure to bring a non-perishable food item for the Greater Baton Rouge Food Bank. Find out more at 1031consortium.com.

Return to Café Du Monde: The popular foodie monologue series has returned from a successful run in Los Angeles to stage some shows at Ralph & Kacoo's the next two weekends, August 28-29 and September 2-4. Start off the evening with cocktails and an appetizer buffet, then settle in for showtime as you listen to local chefs, cooks and foodies from all over the Red Stick and beyond talk about their favorite subject: food! Your $25 ticket includes dessert and coffee after the show. Visit meanwhilebackatcafedumonde.com for tickets and information.

"Once the school year starts, suppertime can veer into one of two miserable directions: stressful or boring," writes 225 food blogger Maggie Richardson. "There is no shortage of suggested solutions to ease the pain of the frenzied family dinner. … Practicality notwithstanding, stuff like that rarely works for me during a busy week, when the supermarket might as well be in Atlanta for the time it takes to drive, shop, stow and cook. But you needn't fall on your sword, creatively speaking. Small new additions can enliven meals—even if they're meals you cook repeatedly." Find out how Maggie freshens up her table without added stress in this week's Spatula Diaries—click here to read.