Dining Out
‘Am’ fare best bet at Lupita’s
posted: 05/16/2013 3:40 a.m. Discuss
You’d expect a restaurant called Lupita’s Original Mexican Food (or perhaps Original Mexican Food Lupita’s as it appears on the exterior green-white-and-red banner) to serve tostadas, burritos and fajitas.
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posted: 05/16/2013 3:10 a.m. Discuss
Grampa’s Catfish has again broken the surface of the waters. The restaurant has reopened at 9219 Stagecoach Road, Little Rock, after being closed at that location for a little over a year.
SELECTED RESTAURANTS
posted: 05/16/2013 3:08 a.m. Discuss
Weekly theme listings reflect a range of dining possibilities in central Arkansas, across a spectrum of settings and price ranges.
Getting it straight
posted: 05/11/2013 5:14 a.m. Discuss
The Democrat-Gazette wants its news reports to be fair and accurate.
Chow still excellent at Ciao
posted: 05/09/2013 3:28 a.m. Discuss
“Ciao” is informal Italian shorthand for “hello” and “goodbye,” and Italians use it offhandedly to say “hi” and “see ya later.”
Selected restaurants
posted: 05/09/2013 2:53 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
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posted: 05/09/2013 2:48 a.m. Discuss
The first Arkansas outlet of the Louisville, Ky.-based J. Gumbo’s franchise opens today in the Centre at Ten shopping center, 12911 Cantrell Road, Little Rock.
Ding Dong! E’s is calling
posted: 05/02/2013 3:20 a.m. Discuss
It was author Ernestine Ulmer, or perhaps a Harriet Carter gift catalog T-shirt, that said: “Life is is uncertain. Eat dessert first.”
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posted: 05/02/2013 2:57 a.m. Discuss
Wendy McCrory, owner of the Little Rock location of Memphis-based Gus’s World Famous Fried Chicken (she also owns the one on Front Street in Memphis and the one in Collierville, Tenn.), says she’s hoping to at least have a soft opening by or during Riverfest — that’s Memorial Day weekend, May 24-26 — in the thick of Riverfest-ivities, in the used-to-be Redbone’s Downtown (and before that the Flying Burrito Co.), 300 President Clinton Ave., in the River Market District.
Selected restaurants
posted: 05/02/2013 2:54 a.m. Discuss
Weekly theme listings reflect a range of dining possibilities in central Arkansas, across a spectrum of settings and price ranges.
Pizza Cafe goes west, well
posted: 04/25/2013 3:19 a.m. Discuss
Let us mince no toppings: Though we have not eaten of its products so much over the past few years, we are nonetheless fans of Pizza Cafe, the small, quirky but homey pizza-salad-sandwich emporium on Rebsamen Park Road in Little Rock’s Riverdale area.
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posted: 04/25/2013 2:52 a.m. Discuss
Vesuvio Bistro, inside the Best Western Premier Governors Suites, 1501 Merrill Drive, Little Rock, is moving to 1315 Breckenridge Drive, the former west Little Rock El Chico location.
Selected restaurants
posted: 04/25/2013 2:48 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/
Enhanced Prego still delights
posted: 04/18/2013 3:37 a.m. Discuss
Cafe Prego has been a safe, dependable place to dine out Italian for almost exactly two decades, starting out at Grant and R streets in the Heights (now the location of Fantastic China) and two years later moving to the old house a few blocks away on Kavanaugh Boulevard that had previously housed a little French place called Chattie’s.
ARE WE THERE YET?: Stuttgart salutes Teutonic roots with festivities
posted: 04/18/2013 3:05 a.m. Discuss
Devouring juicy bratwursts and sauerkraut ? Ja!
