It’s not every day you will catch me going on and on about dressing. But then, it’s not every day that a restaurant opens in Little Rock with as much pedigree and promise as TAE – that’s True Arkansas Eatery. TAE comes from the team behind beloved fusion restaurant The Southern Gourmasian, which closed back …
Congratulations to One Eleven at the Capital. The Capital Hotel’s culinary jewel was recently named one of America’s Best 100 Wine Restaurants for 2018 by Wine Enthusiast magazine. One Eleven’s wine list certainly sets a high bar for Little Rock, but Wine Enthusiast also noted the restaurant’s impressive collection of value wines. Sommelier Okan Bingöl …
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This Saturday is the Great Arkansas Beer Festival, the only beer festival in the summer. That’s because it’s indoors at the Statehouse Convention Center, away from the miserable heat. Expect the largest crowd at a beer festival this year. If you’re going, spending the extra money to get VIP tickets is probably the best option. …
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New restaurant openings look to be the biggest story in June, with four highly anticipated new businesses opening their doors this month. Cathead’s Diner, a collaboration between Donnie Ferneau and Kelli Marks, opened yesterday and is serving breakfast and lunch six days a week (closed Mondays). Ira’s Restaurant by chef Ira Mittelman on Main Street …
I drove right past Saiwok in Rogers on my first visit. My GPS told me to turn into a seemingly vacant strip mall that I thought was certainly not where I was going. But it’s there, tucked away quietly in the back of a row of pastel-colored storefronts. I came because this is where almost …
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If you’re a barrel-aged beer fan (and let’s be honest, we pretty much all are), you will want to be at Lost Forty Brewing for today’s Freshcut Monday release. The taproom is releasing its Forest King Imperial Stout aged in cabernet and bourbon barrels at 4 p.m. today. If you keep up with Lost Forty …
Less than three years after it opened, Arkansas’ only Del Frisco’s Grille location is closing its doors for good. The upscale dining restaurant at the Chenal Promenade will hold its final dinner service on Sunday, June 10. A manager for the restaurant says the staff will hold a small goodbye party for their regular guests …
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This summer has turned into a whirlwind of new restaurant openings in Little Rock. After a brief lull for the past several months, we’ve seen more than a dozen new spots that have been announced, had work started, or even opened. So we thought we’d put all those new restaurant openings together in one place …
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Rebel Kettle is about to expand in a big way. Our friend John the Beer Snob first broke the news of Rebel Kettle signing the lease on a warehouse near the airport that will great expand brewing operations for the company. The East Village taproom will stay put, and some beers will still be made …
There’s not much like early hype. When a business opens for the first time, it can experience more customers in its first few weeks than it will at any point during its first year open. Case in point: The Food Truck Court at Station 801. When it first began letting food trucks set up shop, …