Dining Out
No blues at Bleu Monkey Grill
posted: 02/02/2012 4:21 a.m. Discuss
Bleu Monkey Grill is not a chain place, but it looks a lot like one.
CHEAP EATS: With fine-tuning, Pie has a hunka potential
posted: 02/02/2012 4:01 a.m. Discuss
Hunka Pie has hunkered down in North Little Rock. Again.
Selected restaurants
posted: 02/02/2012 3:59 a.m. Discuss
Weekly theme listings reflect a range of dining possibilities in central Arkansas, across a spectrum of settings and price ranges. To read recent restaurant reviews in their entirety, visit arkansasonline.com/restaurants.
TRANSITIONS
posted: 02/02/2012 3:57 a.m. Discuss
By the time you read this, Cinco Entrees should have opened — Wednesday was the target date — in the River Market’s Ottenheimer Market Hall, 400 President Clinton Ave., Little Rock, offering “Southern culinary cuisine” from chef Travis Meyer. The menu, as you’d imagine from the name, features five upscale entrees — $9 plate lunches including a corn muffin and pickle chips:
Sekisui less snappy, still cool
posted: 01/26/2012 4:33 a.m. Comment 1
Sekisui was Japanese before Japanese was cool. The restaurant, complete with tatami mats and moat of floating sushi boats, was innovative in scene and cuisine when it opened about a dozen years ago — back when one could count its hibachi-and-sushiserving competitors on one hand.
Chef kicks Ciao Baci up a notch
posted: 01/19/2012 3:51 a.m. Discuss
Ciao Baci recently hired as its new chef Yolanda Diaz, who had been the pastry chef at the Capital Hotel.
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posted: 01/19/2012 3:26 a.m. Discuss
It might have something to do with the start of Oaklawn’s racing season, but all of a sudden Hot Springs’ Central Avenue has seen a lot of restaurant action in the last couple of weeks: We have two hits on Lake Hamilton. The Boathouse Restaurant has opened at 4904 Central Ave., formerly Doe’s Eat Place. They’ve kept the same phone number, (501) 525-8585.
Selected restaurants
posted: 01/19/2012 3:26 a.m. Discuss
Weekly theme listings reflect a range of dining possibilities in central Arkansas, across a spectrum of settings and price ranges.
CHEAP EATS: Curry? Yes. Hurry? No.
posted: 01/12/2012 3:55 a.m. Comment 1
From the cradle of civilization to the 21st century, restaurants have promised speedy delivery of food and have opened under names to match. Babylon 5 Minutes. Euphrates No Waiting. Go Fast in the Dessert.
Selected restaurants
posted: 01/12/2012 3:34 a.m. Discuss
Weekly theme listings reflect a range of dining possibilities in central Arkansas, across a spectrum of settings and price ranges. To read recent restaurant reviews in their entirety, visit arkansasonline.com/restaurants/.
TRANSITIONS
posted: 01/12/2012 3:33 a.m. Discuss
The Shorty Small’s at 4317 Warden Road, North Little Rock, has closed. As of late last week, the phone number, (501) 758-8111, had not yet been disconnected, but we couldn’t get anybody to answer it. The front of the building, in that restaurant row that has grown up behind McCain Mall, sports a sign announcing the approach of Newk’s Express Cafe with a May target opening.
Slim pickings
posted: 01/11/2012 1:26 a.m. Discuss
WHAT: Top Chef Cafe Steamers Healthy Choice Entrees STATS: Vary by flavor. The Barbecue Seasoned Steak with Red Potatoes, for example, contains 330 calories and 6 fat, 47 carbohydrate, 4 fiber and 20 protein grams. I found them at the North Little Rock Wal-Mart Supercenter.
It’s Take & Bake, and I helped
posted: 01/05/2012 3:45 a.m. Discuss
Pepperoni, mushroom, extra cheese — hold the baking.
CHEAP EATS: Jo-Jo’s is smoking hot stop for tasty barbecue
posted: 01/05/2012 3:20 a.m. Discuss
Even though Sherwood is a small town, there are several restaurants that serve the area with good food and friendly service.
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posted: 01/05/2012 3:17 a.m. Comments 2
The Root Cafe, 1500 Main St., Little Rock, is now serving full breakfast, including an all-local-ingredient sausage-egg-and-cheese biscuit (ham is also available; the lunch menu’s “Falling Sky” ham doesn’t specify its provenance ; however, the cafe’s mission statement notes its dishes feature “fresh, seasonal ingredients sourced from local farmers” ), muffins and breakfast casserole — “rotating options include strata, grits casserole [and] cornbread quiche,” according to the restaurant’s patron newsletter.
