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Rumbles: Jerky's Temporarily Closes, Greek Food Festival Date, Westover Wednesday Delayed

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, …

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Rumbles: The Root Ready to Expand, 4th Friday in SoMa, Brown Sugar Moves to Park Hill

News The Root is close to breaking ground on its long-awaited expansion plans. Owner Jack Sundell tells me the work will start either this Monday or the Monday after. The Root is using ten repurposed shipping containers to greatly expand the dining room and kitchen areas, which will allow for a brand new dinner service. …

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Rumbles: Rebel Kettle Hires Chef, Lost Forty Heads to NWA, Boulevard now at Baptist, Crawfish at the Rose

News As if you needed another reason to get excited for Rebel Kettle Brewing Company’s upcoming grand opening, the brewery has hired Jim Pat to serve as its head chef. Pat last worked with The Southern Gourmasian, both in the restaurant and back in the food truck days. Pat tells me he will be presenting …

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Rumbles: kBird Set to Reopen, Zara Abbasi Selling at Faded Rose, Rebel Kettle is Brewing

News After taking a month off to travel and do some work, Richard Glasgow is planning to reopen kBird on Monday with some brand new hours. This month, the city of Little Rock approved Glasgow’s request to expand his hours to include a full dinner service. Starting Monday, kBird will be open from 11 a.m. …

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Rumbles: Treatsie Hires Kelli Marks, Flyway Plans Big Events and Damgoode Goes Mobile

News For those of you wondering what Kelli Marks would do after Sweet Love closed, it seems she is wasting little time getting back to work. Marks has been hired by Treatsie to head up its digital content department. Before she opened Sweet Love, Marks worked for a creative agency, and Treatsie says her dual …

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Rumbles: Lost Forty Adds Permanent Beers, Rebel Kettle Gets Its Permit, Damgoode Closes Rogers Spot

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 …

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