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Date featured: 2008-05-09 --
The thought of dressing up for an elaborate, pricey, too-filling, yet not-too-satisfying meal (have we ever encountered a Benedict that really dazzled us?) on a sleepy Sunday usually just makes us want to cower under the covers and never come out. But two recent brunches ... Read on
Date featured: 2008-05-09 --
Food: While continuing to serve Donnie Ferneau’s ambitious New American cooking at dinner, this fashionable Hillcrest restaurant is now also open for lunch four days a week. The Burger, a best bet on the lunch menu, is an 8-ounce patty at least an inch thick ... Read on
Date featured: 2008-05-02 --
Perusing the menu reminded us that Executive Chef Andre Poirot and his crew face the challenge of being a full-service hotel restaurant open seven days a week for breakfast, lunch and dinner to guests with a vast scope of tastes and appetites. For big spenders, ... Read on
Date featured: 2008-04-25 --
Not only do they serve a pie called the Funky Chicken (“Delivering you to Funkytown, Jack. Char-grilled chicken, Green Peppas, Shrooms, Onions & Black Olives”), they urge customers to try it and “Get some ‘wah-ka-chick-a’ fo dat mouth. Dig?” Shtick aside, the eatery that now ... Read on
Date featured: 2008-04-25 --
Not only do they serve a pie called the Funky Chicken (“Delivering you to Funkytown, Jack. Char-grilled chicken, Green Peppas, Shrooms, Onions & Black Olives”), they urge customers to try it and “Get some ‘wah-ka-chick-a’ fo dat mouth. Dig?” Shtick aside, the eatery that now ... Read on
Date featured: 2008-04-25 --
Not only do they serve a pie called the Funky Chicken (“Delivering you to Funkytown, Jack. Char-grilled chicken, Green Peppas, Shrooms, Onions & Black Olives”), they urge customers to try it and “Get some ‘wah-ka-chick-a’ fo dat mouth. Dig?” Shtick aside, the eatery that now ... Read on
Date featured: 2008-04-25 --
Note: This restaurant has location in Maumelle and Hot Springs Upon entering, diners are seated at a booth or a table, and presented with rather extensive menus, chips and salsa. The walls have a color scheme that features pink, yellow and green, and they’re adorned ... Read on
Date featured: 2008-04-17 --
Judging from the number of people packing the place on weeknights, a Japanese steakhouse and sushi bar fills a niche in Maumelle. It’s perfectly usual to have to wait a bit at a Japanese steakhouse until there are enough folks together, from one or more ... Read on
Date featured: 2008-04-11 --
So I asked our waiter, Jon, at Sonny Williams’ Steak Room what customer feedback he’d been getting on Sonny’s Cioppino, the River Market District restaurant’s version of the seafood stew that is a signature dish along Fisherman’s Wharf in San Francisco. “It’s very good, but ... Read on
Date featured: 2008-04-11 --
The Diner is located in a new strip shopping center on the right that also houses a Shipley’s doughnut shop and a tobacco shop. Diners seat themselves in the retro-styled diner, decorated with small vinyl records, country collectibles, and replicas of old metal food and ... Read on
Date featured: 2008-04-04 --
The Hop has been a venerable institution on Cantrell Road for years. Alas, high property values and high rents are about to do what a traumatic change of ownership and even road construction that made access next to impossible couldn’t: Force the place to close. ... Read on
Date featured: 2008-04-04 --
Not only does the accessible menu, large in size and variety, describe dishes, but it also includes color photographs to assist beginners as well as experts who might want to branch out. And sushi ordering forms are accompanied by a cheat sheet of roll ingredients ... Read on
Date featured: 2008-03-28 --
The decor is a nice mixture of Mediterranean elements, the lower parts of the walls painted a red wine color, the upper a sort of ocher/peach, with a floral ribbon between them. Dominating one wall is a photographic mural of a Greek seaside town; also ... Read on
Date featured: 2008-03-14 --
Linguistic mayhem aside, the offerings of this fast-Mexican chain, which recently opened its second central Arkansas location (the first, 10114 Mabelvale Plaza Drive in Little Rock, opened in 2006) in what is becoming Maumelle’s restaurant row, are “more Bueno,” or at least more than those ... Read on
Date featured: 2008-03-12 --
Amiable service is a sustaining virtue at 1620, where proprietor Evette Brady traces her roots to the dawn of fine dining in Little Rock as a kitchen apprentice three decades ago at the late and sanctified Jacques and Suzanne. After stints at Le Casse Croute ... Read on
Date featured: 2008-03-07 --
“Fusion” cuisine usually means a chef putting Asian elements together with European or American elements to create a hybrid that ideally incorporates the best of both worlds. Sometimes this kind of cross-breeding produces a whole new and better species. Sometimes you just get a mule. ... Read on
Date featured: 2008-03-06 --
At the end of a small strip center smack dab in the middle of Gravel Ridge sits The Meat Shoppe, an unassuming little restaurant/butcher shop that offers a wide variety of meats, plate lunches and sandwiches. Upon entering the restaurant, you’ll see five or six ... Read on
Date featured: 2008-02-29 --
Management evidently figures that we don’t need no stinkin’ knives (or spoons) to tackle the Tex-Mex fare at this convivial (i.e., noisy) Little Rock eatery and entertainment fixture, in business at the same Main Street location for 22 years. The no-knife policy works for most ... Read on
Date featured: 2008-02-22 --
They’re offering nearly all of the bagel varieties that NY Bagel did (and more than the handful to which Rx had reduced the list), including the “standards” — plain, poppy seed, salt, sesame seed, garlic and onion — and the “exotics” — apple cinnamon, banana ... Read on
Date featured: 2008-02-22 --
The name Shorty Small’s has nothing to do with the length of the casual eatery’s menu or the size of the portions. Shorty Small, for those who don’t want to take time out from devouring and drinking to actually read the facetious menu fashioned like ... Read on
Date featured: 2008-02-22 --
The name Shorty Small’s has nothing to do with the length of the casual eatery’s menu or the size of the portions. Shorty Small, for those who don’t want to take time out from devouring and drinking to actually read the facetious menu fashioned like ... Read on
Date featured: 2008-02-15 --
Wayne’s Fish & Burgers to Go, nestled deep in midtown, or what used to be referred to as the “west end,” is deceptive. For one thing, Wayne is actually a woman. For another thing, she does not specialize in fried fish and burgers, as the ... Read on
Date featured: 2008-02-15 --
The best-laid plans of mice and restaurateurs gang aft agley. Only a month ago we got an email from the management of Cafe 42, the restaurant in the Clinton Presidential Center, proudly proclaiming the hire of a new chef, John Hughes, along with his new, ... Read on
Date featured: 2008-02-08 --
Hours: 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Monday-Saturday 5-9 p.m. Monday-Friday 5-10 p.m. Saturday Read on
Date featured: 2008-02-01 --
Other Arkansas locations in Little Rock, Conway, Bentonville, Fayetteville and Jonesboro. When radio personality Michael Feldman recently performed his Whad’Ya Know show live in Little Rock, he couldn’t wait to get his hands on some of the fragrant barbecue that suffused the Robinson Center Music ... Read on
Date featured: 2008-01-25 --
Date featured: 2008-01-25 --
Date featured: 2008-01-11 --
Hours: 11 a.m.-2 p.m., 5-9:30 p.m. Monday-Saturday Read on
Date featured: 2008-01-11 --
Hours: 10:30 a.m.-8:30 p.m. Monday-Friday, 11 a.m.-8:30 p.m. Saturday, 11 a.m.-7:30 p.m. Sunday Cuisine: Sandwiches, subs, soups, salads Read on
Date featured: 2008-01-04 --
Next time you’re in Mayflower, check out Stroud’s Country Diner. It’s in the heart of the small town with easy access to Interstate 40. From the outside, Stroud’s, which offers plenty of parking, is housed in a yellow metal warehouse- type building directly in front ... Read on
Date featured: 2008-01-04 --
For the parents: The lunch menu includes appetizers, like spicy hot wings ($5.95), breaded mushrooms ($4.95), and hot tamales ($5.25 for six); salads, including popcorn chicken salad ($6.75), chicken taco salad ($6.75) and the grilled Albacore tuna steak salad ($7.25). There are a host of ... Read on
Date featured: 2008-01-04 --
Boston’s, The Gourmet Pizza Restaurant & Sports Bar, opened around the end of November as part of the Holiday Inn Airport-East’s face-lift. It’s a bright, cheerful and inviting spot to dine. The dining room features banquette seating in muted shades of purple, blue and green, ... Read on
Date featured: 2008-01-03 --
Practically everybody and everything is famous at Famous Dave’s. The waiter on our first visit was Famous Heath; on our second, Famous Derrick. Even the guy who answers the telephone is “famous.” The menu features “Dave’s Famous Fish” and “Dave’s Famous Feasts.” The latter, which ... Read on
Date featured: 2007-12-28 --
Food: Believe the poster that offers “tastier, better quality gyro!” because the owner/chef doesn’t buy it from a food service, he makes it himself, starting from scratch: He’s also a halal butcher (the meat is slaughtered and prepared under strict Islamic dietary laws, similar in ... Read on
Date featured: 2007-12-07 --
For the parents: There are five sizes of burgers, ranging from 5.5 ounces to 20 ounces and from $4.89 to $9.99. You can create your own burger or chicken sandwich, choosing from the standard toppings of lettuce, onion and tomato, and a host of other ... Read on
Date featured: 2007-12-07 --
Zaxby’s, a semi-fast-food restaurant that serves chicken fingers, wings and sandwiches and loves the letter “z” is one of Sherwood’s new hot “zpots.” Zaxby’s sells mainly boneless chicken tender selections, with the only bone-in option being seasoned wings. We decided to go with the 10-piece ... Read on
Date featured: 2007-12-07 --
Food: Dong Lee, who used to run Hanaroo downtown (it has since passed into other hands), took his excellent Hanaroo sushi menu with him to his new place in a former Quizno’s on Cantrell Road, including a fine Volcano Roll, spicy tuna and “crispy tempura,” ... Read on
Date featured: 2007-11-30 --
Flourishes include a wine list of dazzling scope with an attached three-page water list that may strike some diners hereabouts as a bit much. The 10 still and sparkling waters hail from six countries, including a $10 bottle from Japan said to have been filtered ... Read on
Date featured: 2007-11-30 --
Businessmen lunching there recently said aloud that they were regulars before and will be regulars again. You won’t get higher praise from us. The interior is luxurious without being ostentatious - old black wood in the walls and the big old bar, high ceiling, seating ... Read on
Date featured: 2007-11-23 --
Real old-time country and bluegrass tunes come over the sound system (it won’t surprise you to know that there’s a section of the country store dedicated to selling country CDs, including a new one from Alabama — found only at Cracker Barrel — that debuted ... Read on
Date featured: 2007-11-23 --
After two decades of pleasing Ladies Who Lunch and an amiable mix of other dining demographics, Trio’s executive chef and co-owner Capi Peck and her kitchen crew still purvey a few dishes with a pedigree dating all the way back to the landmark former Sam ... Read on
Date featured: 2007-11-09 --
El Dorado has acquired a little bit of age-related patina. That’s the restaurant on Asher Avenue, pronounced El Dor-AH-do, not to be mistaken for the south Arkansas town with the same spelling but a long “A” in the middle. (“City of gold” rather than “city ... Read on
Date featured: 2007-10-26 --
Ristorante Capeo was Argenta when Argenta wasn’t cool. In fact, the fine Italian restaurant, thriving four years after its June 2003 opening, is a big part of the reason why North Little Rock’s formerly dead downtown has become cool. Capeo owners Eric (chef) and Brian ... Read on
Date featured: 2007-10-12 --
The Little Rock outlet of the minichain, which has locations in Memphis and Nashville, is so rooted in its clean, comely corner, that we’ve almost forgotten all the short-lived restaurants that once occupied the space up the ramp behind Sonny Williams’.With lunch and dinner served ... Read on
Date featured: 2007-10-12 --
Those in the vicinity of Seventh and Main streets might want to check out Timmons Lunch Cafe & Takeout, which is on the first floor of the Donaghey Building. You enter the building about mid-block and Timmons is on the right, just beyond the building’s ... Read on
Date featured: 2007-10-05 --
Fridays are catfish days which explains the larger than- normal volume of diners streaming out to their cars lugging Styrofoam containers. And while the foot traffic is an unmistakable endorsement, we opted instead for a take-out plate lunch of beef tips over egg noodles, pinto ... Read on
Date featured: 2007-10-05 --
Date featured: 2007-10-05 --
Seating is at fairly sturdy tables with surprisingly lightweight but handsomely upholstered chairs. The two-top tables are a little cramped for two people but perfect for one. Delicious Temptations sells breakfast all day — well, through 2 p.m., anyway. The extensive menu offers four dishes ... Read on
Date featured: 2007-10-05 --
“Feed your inner leprechaun,” urges Bennigan’s menu. But Fish ’N Chips and Guinness- glazed items aside, Bennigan’s — from the huge portions to the fork-not-required starters (insists the starters menu: “Cast aside the tools of oppression known as silverware”), to the dessert called “Death by ... Read on
Date featured: 2007-09-28 --
Jane’s Kitchen is located in an unassuming little strip center on Main Street, right next to the train tracks. Upon entering, customers seat themselves at one of the laminate-topped tables scattered throughout the dining area. On this Friday night, the buffet was the main attraction, ... Read on
Date featured: 2007-09-28 --
Owner Suzanne Boscarolo’s Ciao Baci quickly became, and still remains, the area’s hot spot for the young (twenty- and thirtysomethings), professional, welldressed and well-heeled who don’t mind paying a fairly high price for fancy fare and fancier cocktails. Heads pop up on the partly climate-controlled ... Read on
Date featured: 2007-09-21 --
A sign above the entrance porch promising “authentic Vietnamese, Chinese, Thai food” denotes that Sai Gon is hedging its bets (rather more so than competitor Van Lang) for central Arkansans to whom the cuisine of Vietnam may still sound too strangely esoteric. The multipage menu ... Read on
Date featured: 2007-09-21 --
Most Chinese buffets, even the better ones, suffer from pretty much the same failings: The food is bland, it isn’t hot enough, it sits out on the buffet too long and gets gummy and greasy. And when Chinese buffets go bad, as in the case ... Read on
Date featured: 2007-09-14 --
No matter how mediocre such eateries might be, they’ve got captive audiences — travelers too weary, lazy or temporarily car-less to go somewhere else, conventioneers who have to go along with the program. They can usually get away with being just OK. But a hotel ... Read on
Date featured: 2007-09-07 --
The exterior still boasts a rather nondescript glass storefront, but the newly decorated interior feels comfortable and homey. The kitchen is somewhat open so patrons can see a bit of the action going on behind the scenes, and the dining area contains a lot of ... Read on
Date featured: 2007-09-07 --
Years after recasting Frenchfocused Alouette’s as “casual world” Gypsy’s, the estimable Denis Seyer has returned, with the help of new chef Chuck Menefee, to his more elegant Gallic roots. Read on
Date featured: 2007-09-07 --
The Butcher Shop’s beef is prime or choice, depending on the cut, in sizes ranging from the 8-ounce Filet Mignon to the 25-ounce Porterhouse. The filet and the Kansas City Strip were both close to forktender at recent dinners, as was the Prime Rib. The ... Read on
Date featured: 2007-09-07 --
Food: Addicts of La Hacienda’s cuisine can now get a fix north of the river at Cotija’s — a close relative of the minichain that also has a lunch location in downtown Little Rock — starting with the complimentary red and green salsas served with ... Read on
Date featured: 2007-09-07 --
A member of the Outback Steakhouse Co., Bonefish Grill, which recently opened a handsome outlet in Pleasant Ridge Town Center, specializes in seafood, which we’re told is flown in two to three times per week. The most popular of Bonefish’s entrees are its grilled fish ... Read on
Date featured: 2007-08-31 --
he one-page dinner menu lists a soup of the day, two salads, focaccia, three pastas (fettuccine, vermicelli, penne) available with any of six sauces, and 14 main courses. That’s plenty of Italian-focused variety, but not the befuddling overdose purveyed on the multi-page menus of some ... Read on
Date featured: 2007-08-17 --
Mary Beth Ringgold, who brought you Capers and the successful revival of Cajun’s Wharf, is on her “metal” with the menu for her third restaurant, with a separate grocery store on the ground floor of Little Rock’s new 300 Third Tower. It’s closer to Capers ... Read on
Date featured: 2007-07-27 --
Imagine chef/co-owner Adam Rosenblum has created imaginative dishes for lunch (for example, a ham, brie, spinach and apple sandwich with apple vinaigrette) and dinner (peppered lamb loin with potato medley hash and ratatouille, finished with bell pepper coulis). He’s been a little more conservative with ... Read on
Date featured: 2007-07-27 --
Where we have previously been consistently underwhelmed by other meals, brunch was superb. The Triniti Omelette, made with three cheeses and prosciutto, is just as fluffy as the menu promises. Pineapple salsa and the citrus sesame vinaigrette are the definite attractions to the Grilled Tuna ... Read on
Date featured: 2007-07-20 --
Food: Proprietor Jerry Barakat buys top-of-the-line prime beef from a Chicago supplier and dry-ages it for three or four weeks. Priciest is the Australian Wagyu Ribeye ($50), from densely marbled cattle of Japanese lineage and almost sinfully rich in flavor. Two unusual bone-in cuts of ... Read on
Date featured: 2007-07-13 --
Food: Open for nearly two decades at its Bowman Road shopping center location after previous lives midtown and downtown — in other words, “forever” by Little Rock Chinese establishment standards — Fu Lin is quite worthy of the years it has weathered. The menu is ... Read on
Date featured: 2007-07-06 --
Food: Cozymel’s is a bit more upscale than your average Mexican restaurant, not surprising since the name recalls the Caribbean island resort Cozumel (off the Yucatan Peninsula). Yes, the menu has nachos, quesadillas, fajitas, enchiladas and tacos, but they’re all rather more glorified here. An ... Read on
Date featured: 2006-03-03 --
Food: Continental entrees (from seafood to steak) with Creole influences as well as unique flavors introduced by executive chef David Bennett. Mood: Sunny yellow walls, wide-planked wood flooring and an inviting leather banquette soften the dressy atmosphere created by bright white tablecloths, heavy cutlery and ... Read on
