West Monroe sports grill offers a variety of Louisiana favorites

A West Monroe sports activities grill affords a mix of gameday favorites and Louisiana-inspired dishes to sports activities lovers and meals lovers alike.

Underdogs Chill and Grill on Structure Drive affords a various menu starting from pub-grub favorites like burgers, po’boys and quesadillas to crab legs, blackened shrimp and catfish, crawfish taters and gator bites. It’s owned by Lindsay Leavitt, who can also be part-owner of Portico Restaurant and Bar in Monroe. 

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The burgers, which have come turn into one of many restaurant’s bestsellers, are hand-pattied and are made recent, normal supervisor Kim Stokes mentioned. 

“Our burgers, I’ve heard individuals say they’re the very best burgers on the town,” Stokes mentioned. “We do not use frozen, we use recent so I feel that makes a distinction. Even while you order a burger, it isn’t that outlined spherical patty, it is handmade and I feel that is what attracts lots of people to us.” 

Underdog’s specialty burgers and po’boys embody the Grand Slam burger, the Come Again burger, the David and Goliath po’boy and the Huge Gravy po’boy. The Grand Slam burger options three 4 oz. beef patties with pepper jack, American, swiss, and underdog cheese, with crawfish tails and jalapenos on brioche bun. The David and Goliath po’boy is served with shrimp, alligator sausage, lettuce, tomato and remoulade.

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Different bestsellers embody the blackened catfish and blackened shrimp. 

The restaurant opened in Could 2021 in the course of the throes of the worldwide pandemic, however Stokes mentioned enterprise and employment has been nice, though the restaurant has struggled with buying. 

“We did very effectively,” Stokes mentioned. “Our largest difficulty has been provide points similar to everybody else.”

The restaurant can also be pet-friendly, Stokes mentioned, and encompasses a patio-area for purchasers to eat with their four-legged mates. 

Underdogs additionally companions with native colleges offering a free youngsters’ meal for college kids as a part of the Accelerated Studying program, Stokes mentioned. 

“As soon as they’ve accomplished seven books and their instructor indicators off, they will really redeem that for a free youngsters meal,” Stokes mentioned. “It actually has helped getting them motivated. That is what youngsters want. They want motivation. There’s at all times that end line the place you are like, ‘I’ve obtained to get this achieved and these are going to be the advantages.’” 

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The restaurant was voted Better of the Delta’s “Finest New Restaurant” in 2021. It would even be featured on the June 15 episode of MTV’s documentary collection “Catfish.” 

Underdogs is positioned at 505 Structure Drive, Monroe and is open 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Tuesday by way of Thursday, 11 a.m.-10 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and 11 a.m.-9 p.m. on Sunday. 

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