News The Little Rock food community is coming together to help Midtown Billiards rebuild after a kitchen fire Monday. Four Quarter Bar in Argenta will hold a benefit concert Saturday night, with proceeds going to support the Midtown employees who are currently out of work. Also, there is an account set up at Centennial Bank …
News David’s Burgers is making moves with its two new locations. Owner Alan Bubbus tells me that his Cabot restaurant is just a few weeks from its April grand opening. It will be the seventh David’s Burgers location in Central Arkansas when it opens. Bubbus says he is still looking to hire staff for the …
News Jerky’s Spicy Chicken and More has had a rough few months getting the new Center Street location open. Several problems with the building delayed the restaurant’s opening significantly, and now Jerky’s is closed again. Owner John Walker Jr. posted on Facebook that Jerky’s is in a dispute with Rental Realty, which owns the building, …
Little Rock’s food truck scene is a hodgepodge of quality businesses, interesting characters and a wide diversity of food to explore. What it isn’t is centralized. Much of that is the nature of the business, with truck operators packing up to different locations throughout the week to meet customers where they are. Still, it’s nice …
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News We tend to spend quite a bit of time here talking about breweries, but that’s only because something new is happening almost weekly in Little Rock’s blossoming beer scene. Take Lost Forty Brewing, for example. A few weeks ago, the brewery began selling its Day Drinker Belgian blonde in cans at retail locations around …
More interesting food truck developments coming your way. You know, Hot Rod Wieners has been one of my favorite trucks since I first sunk my teeth into one of their wieners. I like hot dogs. I know they’re nothing fancy, but there’s just enough creativity and quality at Hot Rod to keep me coming back …
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News Downtown bakery Brown Sugar Bakeshop will close its retail location on 3rd Street on Christmas Eve. The move doesn’t mean the end of Brown Sugar, however. The business is moving to a new commercial kitchen to expand its dessert delivery and catering service. Also, Brown Sugar has announced it will launch a new dessert …
Our second annual Trucksgiving food truck festival in Bryant wrapped up this Saturday. The official estimate is still being calculated, but I believe we at least doubled the turnout from last year. For those of you who missed it, Trucksgiving each year is a partnership event we do with First Methodist Bryant to bring the …
Our food truck scene is in a constant state of flux…folks coming and going, some transitioning to brick-and-mortar. But one truck that remains a consistent favorite around town is the deceptively delicious, Hot Rod Wieners. On the surface, this team of dog-slingers are putting out what some might consider a relatively simple product…hot dogs. But …
How have the first few weeks gone for downtown’s newest eatery … The Southern Gourmasian? “I think it’s gone great. We’ve had a few minor hiccups, but when you go from three people working in a truck to 20 people working lunch and dinner in a restaurant, that’s bound to happen. My staff is overwhelmed by …