Luna Cocina on Perkins

Where on Perkins?

Got it.. 3109 Perkins.. In the old Keen's.

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In the old Keen's.

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How many times can a building be renovated??

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How many times can a building be renovated??

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That building is a death trap

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High end mexican from the folks that run Mi Padres and some of the Greek places around town from what I understand.

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Isn't the Soji dude the one who initiated the renovation? Did he give up and try to sell part of the way through or something? Explains why it sat there for so long if so..

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r3lay3r

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Saw this earlier today. Obviously no idea whether it's going to be worth a shite, but the reno, particularly the rooftop area, looks really nice. I'm pleasantly surprised.

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BR doesn't need another Mexican spot

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I agree in a vacuum, but Mexican is always popular.

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and certainly not competing 200 feet away from a popular one.

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Zippy's? Come on, those two aren't even kind of competing with one another in spite of nominally offering roughly the same region of food

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Best thing this has going for it is the views and weather coming tomorrow night .

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Which has kept asses in seats at Tsunami downtown for a couple of decades now, in spite of being fairly mediocre and very overpriced. I have no idea whether the food will be worth a shite, whether they are leveraged to the hilt and will fail, etc. But that space looks really good, at least from the pictures.

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Again, BR does not do Mexican well, and it's not like they would care about that. Zippy's has a long standing customer base that still comes. The quality is nothing exciting but it does the job.

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If I want good elevated Tex-Mex, I go to Blue Corn. If I want something more traditional, I'll probably do La Tienda or the Aztecas food truck. Is any of it the best Mexican ever? Nope. Are all of them significant departures from something like Zippy's? In my opinion, absolutely.

And this isn't to shite on Zippy's. People like what they like, and I'm not judging that. But I can count on one hand the number of times I've eaten at Zippy's in the past decade. I'm just not going to stop there over other places in the area. On the other hand, this place looks like a nice spot to grab drinks after work and maybe grab a bit of food while we're there. I would absolutely go there. And again, this isn't my saying it's "better" or anything like that. I'm trying to convey that they are simply targeting utterly different clientele.

An upscale twist on mexican is just what Baton Rouge needs! We already have dozens of low to middle end mexican.

Looks like overpriced soda sopa hip bs.