New Hot Tails restaurant in the works for Baton Rouge/Prarieville

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Samantha and Cody Carroll, who starred together on Food Network’s “Cajun Aces” and opened Hot Tails in New Roads, have returned to Baton Rouge with big plans.

While Samantha takes the helm at Louisiana Seafood as the new executive director, Cody plans to open a second Hot Tails restaurant, as well as a crawfish wholesale distribution center. Both new establishments will be located on Airline Highway in Prairieville.

The new Hot Tails restaurant will be “bigger and badder than the first one,” says Cody Carroll, and will feature a large boiling room with windows so that customers can see the action. The couple opened the first Hot Tails in New Roads in 2010.

The Prairieville location will also be outfitted with a raw oyster bar, a charbroiled oyster station and two private rooms.

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Construction on the 8,000-square-foot restaurant is expected to start around January, with the goal of opening before the 2020 football season kicks off. Carroll estimates construction will cost roughly $2.5 million.

Next door, Carroll plans to renovate an existing warehouse to become Crawfish District, a crawfish wholesale distribution center that will be outfitted with a state-of-the-art purging system.

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