My kindergartener Susie’s newfound aptitude for reading has mostly upsides, but short of throwing myself across the menu at Sazon Latin Grill, I was not going to be able to stop her from ordering the grilled cheese.
She may have changed her mind if she’d waited a few minutes for curiosity to kick in, as she tinkered with the little Latin American toys on display and tried to detach a Colombian sombrero vueltiao from the wall. And had we held her at bay till a selection of empanadas hit the table, she’d have been as intrepid as anybody.
Sazon is located in an unassuming strip mall amidst a concentration of nail salons along O’Neal Lane, and was opened by Daniel and Tay Lopera in spring 2023 as an answer to Baton Rouge’s dearth of Cuban and Colombian cuisine…