There’s so many Serop’s Express buffets in town now that it’s easy to forget about Serop’s Cafe until the weather turns cold and windy and you get that Baton Rouge winter rain that feels like sleet even though it’s only forty degrees outside and your thoughts turn to lamb shank. Serop’s Cafe is the only place I know of in town that has lamb shank available night and day so that’s where I head. Everyone’s always nice at all the Serop’s locations, but the staff seems even more welcoming at the Cafe. With the recent demise of the last Arzi’s on Government (still don’t know the story, and we used to have such good times on Sundays at the one on Nicholson, ordering up the raw kibbi and downing bottles of Boutari Nemea) the Cafe jumps right in the mix with Roman’s. Really like Albasha too, so maybe I need to run over to Citiplace soon but this visit was all about the slow cooked lamb shank with brown gravy and a heap of rice pilaf with roasted green beans and of course Lebanese tea and hot pita and a feta salad with the garlic dialed all the way up. Some people will recommend honeyed tea with lemon or hot toddies or any number of treats to try to avoid the pitfalls of cold and flu season, but I say go with the lamb shank at Serop’s.
