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Koto’s bistro menu includes Lemon Grass Grilled Rack of Lamb.
Koto’s bistro menu includes Lemon Grass Grilled Rack of Lamb.
Karen E. Segrave
2008-08-28 09:43:00

RESTAURANTS: Koto’s cuisine hits practically all the right notes

(Friday, Aug. 29, 2008)

Koto is the Hannah Montana of Little Rock Japanese restaurants. » Read story.

Pizza playgrounds

A cheesy new player has joined central Arkansas’ lineup of ‘eat first, play later’ venues

(Friday, Aug. 29, 2008)

There is no way to underestimate the power of the token. » Read story.

Olives, pepperoni and four quarters

(Friday, Aug. 29, 2008)

Here are a few more pizza places — by no means an exhaustive list — that have a sizable number of video games as a diversion. » Read story.

RESTAURANT Vieux Carre’s menu tinkering mostly superb

(Friday, Aug. 22, 2008)

Vieux Carre isn’t yet old enough or sufficiently entrenched to quite live up to its name, which means “old square” — and if you want to sound French in New Orleans, it’s the way you’d refer to the French Quarter. » Read story.

Transitions

(Friday, Aug. 22, 2008)

Mike Wallace, who had been a management fixture for 13 years at La Scala, has joined Mike Selig at Vermillion Water Grille, 200 Commerce St., where he is now the maitre d’ and catering /special events manager. » Read story.

Frosted, glazed and filled

Unconventional confections are suddenly easy to find in central Arkansas

(Friday, Aug. 22, 2008)

Remember when Krispy Kreme was a really big deal? What peasants we were! What gas we wasted idling in the drive-through ! And, at the heart and the “H-O-T” of it — as in the red neon letters that are the “Vacancy/ No Vacancy” of optimum doughnut desirability — all that fuss was over nothing more than glaze. » Read story.

RESTAURANT Browning’s freshens menu, stays in comfort zone

(Friday, Aug. 15, 2008)

Time no longer stands still at Browning’s. » Read story.

CHEAP EATS Saucer-size crab cake a highlight at Fat Daddy’s

(Friday, Aug. 15, 2008)

Catfish lovers in the Cabot area have a new place to troll for lunch and dinner with the opening of Fat Daddy’s Fish House at the corner of Southfork Drive and Arkansas 367. » Read story.

Transitions

(Friday, Aug. 15, 2008)

Zaxby’s, the “quick-casual ” chain with a chicken-based menu, opened another central Arkansas franchise last week, at 1303 E. Beebe Capps Expressway, across from Harding University, in Searcy. Hours are 10:30 a.m.-10 p.m. daily. » Read story.

RESTAURANT: Ice cream, salad: Cool finds at The Purple Cow

(Friday, Aug. 8, 2008)

When it’s 104 degrees outside, who feels like eating? » Read story.

Transitions

(Friday, Aug. 8, 2008)

Trio’s partners Capi Peck and Brent Peterson last week signed a lease on the former Imagine space in the Pleasant Ridge Town Center, 11525 Cantrell Road, and plan to open a tapas/wine bar called Capi’s Place on or about Oct. 1. » Read story.

SELECTED RESTAURANTS

(Friday, Aug. 1, 2008)

This selection of noteworthy central Arkansas restaurants is not intended to be all-inclusive. It aims to reflect a mix of the area’s dining possibilities across a spectrum of cuisines, settings and price ranges. » Read story.

RESTAURANT: Chi revival offers variety: Chinese, dim sum,‘bistro’

(Friday, Aug. 1, 2008)

We haven’t quite figured out why you would order pesto chicken or a $35-plus split-bone rib-eye steak in a Chinese restaurant. » Read story.

CHEAP EATS: Dine in or takeout, Chi’s Express a trusty mainstay

(Friday, Aug. 1, 2008)

Chi’s Express started as a glorified takeout counter, a small rectangular space in a strip mall outpost way out west on Chenal. It was intended to be nothing more than serviceable location where the larger parent restaurant — Chi’s on Shackleford Drive — could shuttle food faster to the wellheeled customers living in the nearby mansions. » Read story.

Transitions

(Friday, July 25, 2008)

You’ve probably heard that Starbucks will be closing more than 600 outlets across the country. According to a list the company has posted on its Web site, www.starbucks. » Read story.

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