Rock City Eats
In a summer full of exciting news from Little Rock’s food scene, this new development might just beat them all. Hillcrest Artisan Meats, the adored restaurant that closed in December 2016, is back. And by “back,” I mean today. Brandon Brown is in the kitchen at District Fare as you read this getting several of […]
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Fans of Banana Leaf who don’t feel like heading downtown for lunch will have another option starting this weekend. Husband-and-wife team Shan Peth and Purni Muthaian will be starting up a second location inside Asian Groceries on Rodney Parham Rd. The new location should be open this coming Saturday and will specialize in South Indian
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Bark Bar carved out a niche for themselves a year ago as the only dog park and bar combo in the city. A lot has happened within the bar as they have figured out how to run an indoor/outdoor dog park that has a bar and restaurant inside. One of the things that has changed
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Get ready for a new wave of biscuits to arrive in Little Rock this fall. Delta Biscuit Company has been working for almost two years now on getting its food truck business up and running, and this week announced it will be ready before Halloween. Owner Hayne Begley has been developing his biscuit-centered menu into
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Little Rock has a mountain of potential thanks to the very strategic positioning of the city, potential access to technology, being a capital city, and the quality of regional centers for higher learning. Yet Little Rock faces a huge issue of a long period of being generally stagnant as a city. So much so that
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If all goes according to plan, Rebel Kettle Brewing Company could very soon be the largest brewer in the state of Arkansas. The company has signed the lease a monstrous warehouse on 17th Street and is testing the location’s viability as a production brewery. While it’s still very early in the game for Rebel Kettle,
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The summer’s hottest party is this Saturday when Stone’s Throw Brewing throws the Fifth Annual Block on Rock all-evening celebration. Stone’s Throw will shut down Rock Street in front of the brewery from 4 p.m. until 10 p.m. for the party. Beer lovers will want to check out the new Collaboration Beer Fest at Block
First poke came to downtown, then to the Heights neighborhood, and soon to Conway. That has to have left folks in West Little Rock feeling left out, but not for long. Ohia Poké owners Sonny Nguyen and Au Tran are opening a second location in the Promendade at Chenal. The new restaurant will be located
At the beginning of 2017, chef Ira Mittelman announced he was closing Ira’s Park Hill Grill for a move to downtown Little Rock to participate in the revitalization of Main Street. At that time, he told me he was hoping to open by spring, though delays could push him into the summer. The summer of
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The Arkansas Brewers Guild is heading to Baxter County this weekend for a tap takeover at Gravity BrewWorks in Big Flat, Arkansas. On Saturday, Gravity will host 10 local breweries in addition to their own brews: Apple Blossom, Bentonville Brewing, Brick and Forge, Bubba Brews, Fossil Cove, Gravity, Lost Forty, New Province, Ozark, Prestonrose, and