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Wine Loft opens in Fuqua Building

By CHAD CALDER
Advocate business writer
Published: Mar 11, 2006

The Doyle Restaurant Group has opened The Wine Loft at Laurel and Third streets in the back half of the historic Fuqua Building.

The Wine Loft will offer wine, light cuisine, fondue and desserts in 3,300 square feet of the building.

Doyle Restaurant Group, based in New Orleans, owns the vodka bar Rasputin’s, which opened on Third Street.

Chief Executive Officer Jason Doyle has said the Baton Rouge location will feature the relaxed atmosphere similar to its Tchoupitoulas Street location in New Orleans, which features 85 wines by the glass, 220 by the bottle.

Doyle Restaurant has four New Orleans establishments: The Wine Loft, an upscale 1950s-style diner called Huey’s, the Lafayette Sports Bar and Rasputin’s.

Doyle said Friday morning that construction is complete, staff was trained and ready and inventory was complete.

He said an upstairs loft will open when the spiral stairwell is fabricated in about three weeks.