In this week’s About Town, we sample menu items — including some excellent baba ghanouj — at the new La Roche Lebanese-Armenian eatery in Cooper-Young. Plus, a new deli opens Downtown in the former Big River Market space, and there’s a new bubble tea shop in Midtown.

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The little house on Cooper Street has reincarnated yet again, this time as La Roche, a Lebanese-Armenian restaurant.

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