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La Divina Italian Cafe expanding its menu

Thanks to budding popularity and a new hire in the kitchen, a local café and gelateria is building on its successful menu. Lance LeBlanc, general manager of the Baton Rouge location of La Divina Italian Café, is adding entrées to the food menu, such as chicken tortellini, personal pizzas, lasagna and traditional breakfast items like grits, eggs and bacon.

“Altogether, we’ve added about 10 items,” LeBlanc says. “We’ll whittle it down to around five items that will be on the menu permanently by the end of the month, maybe sooner.”

The café hired Chef Erik Lefort about a month ago, and LeBlanc says the local spot is now able to broaden its scope outside of sandwiches, salads and gelato.

“We’re currently in the growth stage, and we’re just experimenting with what our customers want,” LeBlanc says. “I’d hope we get some pros and cons, but our customers have loved it all and want us to do it all. If I did that, I’d have a menu that’s three pages long.”

La Divina’s Baton Rouge location opened last December. Carmelo Turillo founded the business in 2007 and opened the first location in New Orleans. For more information on La Divina, click here. —Matthew Sigur