LITTLE ROCK — The
U.S. Pizza
outlet in the former Aydelotte’s, 5524 John F. Kennedy Blvd., North Little Rock, will start serving brunch on Sunday, offering frittatas and breakfast pizzas, 10:30 a.m.-2 p.m., in addition to the pizzas it serves during normal Sunday hours. The telephone number is (501) 975-5524.
Cactus Jack’s Mexican Restaurant, in the former Hardee’s on West Markham Street between Shackleford and Bowman roads, Little Rock, appears to be somewhat closer to opening: The signs are up, and there is now a listed telephone number, (501) 227-7556. We’ll keep you posted.
Taj Mahal Indian Cuisine & Mediterranean
is pending at 1520 Market St., Little Rock, previously the home of El Acapulco, Way Out Willie’s and a couple of other Mexican restaurants, and literally within a stone’s throw of competitor
Amruth, a block away in the Market Place Shopping Center, 11121 N. Rodney Parham Road. We’ve found online the hours of operation: 10 a.m.-11 p.m. Monday and Wednesday-Thursday, 10 a.m.-midnight Friday, 8:30 a.m.-midnight Saturday and 8:30 a.m.-11 p.m. Sunday. The accompanying telephone number, (501) 520-4900, doesn’t seem to be operating yet. We’ll keep you posted.
A column in this week’s edition of Sync Weekly indicates that whatever renovations may (or may not) have been taking place at
Satellite Cafe, 5923 Kavanaugh Blvd. at University Avenue, Little Rock, appear to have halted. A window sign that identified a local architecture firm handling the so-called renovations has now disappeared. The website, www.satellitecafeintheheights. com, now carries only the cryptic message, “Coming soon! New updates on what’s been happening around the Satellite ....” We’ll try to keep you posted.
A spokesman for
Mexico Chiquito
says the local Tex-Mex mini-chain has sold the long-vacant building at 104 S. Rodney Parham Road, Little Rock, where it has continued to operate a walk-in/drivethrough Mex-to-Go operation at the northeastern tip. That operation will continue under a new lease-back agreement with the building’s new owner, the spokesman says.
Slick’s Sandwich Shop & Deli, in the state office building at 101 E. Capitol Ave., Little Rock, has gone back to serving meat and two side dishes for $6.99 plate lunches (which it did when it first opened but abandoned some time ago) Tuesday-Thursday (Monday remains Taco Salad Day, while Friday’s special will continue to be a catfish plate). Offerings, different each day, include grilled pork chops, chicken-fried chicken and chicken-fried steak; vegetable plates (three vegetables and a roll) are $4.29. vegetable/side offerings include mashed potatoes (with white or brown gravy), green beans, baked beans and corn, and Slick’s has resumed making its own homemade yeast rolls. There will also be a daily dessert: brownies on Tuesday, banana pudding on Wednesday, chocolate cake on Thursday and peach cobbler on Friday.Slick’s is open for weekday lunch, 11 a.m.-3 p.m.; the phone number is (501) 375-3420.
Meanwhile,
Lunch at the Legion, at the American Legion Post No. 1, 315 E. Capitol Ave., Little Rock, notified its customers this week that “Due todeclining business and equipment problems, we will be closing after lunch July 30.” (That’s Friday.)
The target date is Aug. 18 for Tim Farrell Jr., a Little Rock native and University of Arkansas graduate who has been tending bar at various establishments on Fayetteville’s Dickson Street for nine years, to open his own establishment,
Farrell’s Lounge, Bar and Grill, Fayetteville’s first “gastropub/sports bar,” at 311 W. Dickson St., previously the home of
Bangkok Cuisine
. “Gastropub” is one of those trendy words, British in origin, for a public house that specializes in serving high quality food; Farrell describes it as “basically a chef-driven menu in a sports-bar setting.” The chef in question is his cousin, William McCormick, who took a cooking class with James at the Mill Chef Miles James when he was 13; he has since graduated from NewEngland Culinary Institute and worked under some top chefs in Boston and Dallas. The menu will include highend burgers, hot dogs and sandwiches for lunch; dinner entrees will include steaks and weekly fish specials, plus a vegetable of the day straight from the Fayetteville Farmers Market. Hours will be 11 a.m.-2 a.m. daily; there’s no phone number yet, but the website, FarrellsLounge.com, is up and running.
Eureka Springs’ Alliance of Better Bed & Breakfasts will present its
August Taste of the Inns, 3-7 p.m. Aug. 21. Participating inns - Red Bud Manor, Main Street Inn, Heartstone Inn & Cottages, Crescent Cottage Inn, Bridgeford House, Arsenic and Old Lace B&B Inn and 5 Ojo Inn Bed & Breakfast - will each be providing two appetizers,“mocktails” (nonalcoholic cocktails) and facilities tours. Tickets are $25 per person, with discount packages for guests staying at participating lodgings. Call (800) 494-4921 or visit relaxeureka.com. Only 300 tickets will be sold.
And anyone named Dave, David or Davy can eat free at
Famous Dave’s Bar-B-Que
restaurants on Sunday. The Minnesota-based chain will offer anyone with one of those first names a free entree (maximum value of $15) at participating locations nationwide (including, according to a spokesman, the Little Rock and Rogers restaurants, even though they’re not listed among the participating locations at davesday2010.com), and an entree for half price (maximum value of $7.50) if it’s your middle name. Thepromotion celebrates the chain’s 16th anniversary and honors founder “Famous Dave” Anderson.
Has a restaurant opened - or closed - near you in the last week or so? Does your favorite eatery have a new menu? Is there a new chef in charge? Drop us a line. Call (501) 399-3667 or (501) 378-3513, or send a note to Restaurants, Weekend Section, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, P.O. Box 2221, Little Rock, Ark. 72203. Send e-mail to:
Weekend, Pages 37 on 07/29/2010