Diana Long, director of River Market Operations for the Little Rock Convention & Visitors Bureau, reports that west Little Rock's Old Mill Bread and Flour Co. will add a satellite operation in the kiosk formerly occupied by Craven's Popcorn in the market's Ottenheimer Market Hall, 400 President Clinton Ave., Little Rock. And David's Burgers' David Alan Bubbus is finally wrapping up a lease on the eastern end-cap with a 90-day estimate toward completion, hopefully by summer's end.
Flyway Brewing, 314 Maple St., North Little Rock, has expanded its menu to include sliders and nachos that focus on the yields of Arkansas woods, fields and waterways, says co-owner Jess McMullen, and also pair well with the beer offerings. Flyway's first tasting room food concept was quarter-pound soft pretzels. "Customers asked for more, and we had the kitchen space to do it," McMullen explains. They're not serving dinner per se, but the sliders weigh 2 ounces apiece; two of them would be the equivalent of a quarter-pound hamburger. And they're pretty upscale -- bacon-wrapped quail on a pretzel roll; choice of venison or tofu Vietnamese-style banh mi sandwiches on baguette; wild boar meatballs in a Romseco sauce. The nachos will each feature a special salsa -- duck confit with chipotle cherry salsa, smoked trout with roasted corn and poblano salsa, and crawfish with a tri-bell pepper salsa. Subsequent specials might include catfish sliders or maybe gator nachos -- "We'll ask our customers what they're interested in," McMullen adds. They'll also continue to have food trucks parked outside on Thursdays. Hours will continue to be 4-9 p.m. Monday-Thursday, noon-10 p.m. Friday-Saturday, noon-9 p.m. Sunday. The phone number is (501) 812-3192.
A month of third-birthday festivities for nano-brewery Stone's Throw Brewing, 908 Rock St., Little Rock, begins Friday with the annual release of their Anniversary Stout (replicating the first beer brewed at Stone's Throw on July 4, 2013), culminating with the third Block on Rock Birthday Bash, 4-10 p.m. July 30. And, in between, there will be special beer releases each Friday -- July 8, an "interpretation" of an 1841 Little Rock beer that was developed with the Historic Arkansas Museum; July 15, the 2015 Anniversary Stout aged in a Rock Town Distillery rye whiskey barrel; aged in the same barrel, the July 22 offering, 2015 Big Dam Horn O'Plenty Imperial Oktoberfest; and, July 29, a barrel soured version of Amarillo Warrior Imperial IPA. The Third Block on Rock Birthday Bash, commemorating the opening of Stone's Throw's taproom, Aug. 1, 2013, will occupy two blocks of Rock Street, from Seventh to Ninth streets, for a music stage and food trucks. The brewery will donate 25 percent of the proceeds to Preserve Arkansas. Normal hours for Stone's Throw's taproom and biergarten are 4-9 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday, 4-10 p.m. Friday, noon-10 p.m. Saturday and 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Sunday. Visit stonesthrowbeer.com.
You will recall we reported last summer that Lacy Pynes Galligan, the area franchisee for Another Broken Egg Cafe, had announced that she was "aggressively scouting Midtown and west Little Rock locations" with an eye toward opening the first cafe this spring or summer, with a second to follow by the end of 2016. We reported last fall that Galligan had some health issues and had put the project on hold. Partially in response to a continuing string of reader queries, we have been trying to get in touch with Galligan, who continues to not return phone and email queries. The website for the Destin, Fla.-based chain, anotherbrokenegg.com -- as it did last summer when the news first broke -- still lists Little Rock as "Coming Soon." Soon as we "break" any additional details, please rest assured we will post them.
The Tulsa-based Hideaway Pizza chain now has a first-week-of-October target date to open its first non-Oklahoma outlet, 5103 Warden Road, North Little Rock (next to Chuy's), the west access road for U.S. 67/167. Janie Harris, the chain's marketing and guest relations coordinator, says it will have 6,700 square feet with seating for 186, a full bar (20 beers, mostly from Arkansas and Oklahoma breweries, on tap) and large-screen TVs above the bar area for sports events. A local beer tasting to benefit a charity will precede the grand opening. They expect to employ about 100 people (full- and part-time). Hours will likely be 11 a.m.-9:30 p.m. Sunday-Thursday, 11 a.m.-10:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday. Plans are to open a Conway location in spring 2017, timed to coincide with the 60th anniversary of the opening of the original location in Stillwater, Okla. Check out the menu -- sandwiches, salads, "starters" and pasta in addition to build-your-own and more than two dozen specialty pizzas -- and other details at hideawaypizza.com.
The Oxford American is sponsoring -- as part of its July 30-31 Charles Portis Weekend -- A Southern Supper with Southern humorists Roy Blount Jr. and Harrison Scott Key, 6:30 p.m. July 30 at the Capital Hotel, 111 W. Markham St., Little Rock. The weekend marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of Portis' first novel, Norwood; the menu for the dinner "will feature special Norwood-theme food created by the Capital chefs." Tickets are $150; proceeds benefit the nonprofit magazine. Visit tinyurl.com/southernsupper1. On July 31 at South on Main, 1304 Main St., Little Rock, adjoining the magazine's offices, a lineup of special guests, including Blount, Key, Prairie Home Companion sound effects artist Fred Newman and singer/guitarist Tift Merritt "will pay tribute to the book's brilliance."
