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1 week ago | 
arktimes.com | Rhett Brinkley
The Pantry owner Tomas Bohm will be serving up his “famous paella” on Sunday to celebrate the restaurant’s 16 year anniversary since opening in West Little Rock in 2009. When Bohm, a native of the Czech Republic, started serving up his Czech and German-inspired fare in the space in West Little Rock that once housed Alouette’s and Gypsy’s Grill, the Arkansas Times called it “the next logical step.
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2 weeks ago | 
arktimes.com | Rhett Brinkley
Hunger relief is a time-consuming job, but a new mobile app from Central Arkansas-based nonprofit Potluck Food Rescue is making swift work of it. Case in point: About 40 minutes ahead of a meeting I was assigned to cover for this publication, I headed to a North Little Rock Little Caesars where an employee casually handed me a comically large stack of 15 boxed pizzas.
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2 weeks ago | 
arktimes.com | Rhett Brinkley
Student athletes are one step closer to receiving payment directly from Arkansas universities after a state Senate committee gave its approval to the measure Thursday. The move follows the final settlement hearing on Monday of a landmark $2.8 billion federal antitrust lawsuit that could alter the way students earn compensation for their name, image and likeness, often called NIL.
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2 weeks ago | 
arktimes.com | Rhett Brinkley
Clay’s Sunday Special, a benefit for Youth Home featuring a school-cafeteria inspired menu and solo performances from Kevin Kerby, Isaac Alexander, Sammy Williams and Adam Faucett, will take place at the White Water Tavern on Sunday, April 20 from 4-8 p.m. Local chef Adam Sweet, who along with his wife Alicia Sweet opened Problem Child pizzeria last month, will be serving up a tray of school cafeteria lunch nostalgia from the White Water kitchen.
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2 weeks ago | 
arktimes.com | Rhett Brinkley
A bill to legalize online gambling statewide for the three licensed casinos in Arkansas was withdrawn for interim study following a House committee meeting last week. Sponsor Rep. Matt Duffield (R-Russellville) and Saracen Casino Resort chief market officer Carlton Saffa presented House Bill 1861 to the House Judiciary Committee on Thursday. The bill would regulate online gaming in Arkansas and make it a felony for any unregulated entities to operate online casinos in the state.
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2 weeks ago | 
arktimes.com | Griffin Coop |Rhett Brinkley
The storms that raged for the past several days are gone (thank God) but they left plenty of damage behind. Flooding, power outages, downed trees, injuries and at least one death are among the toll. The Arkansas Department of Emergency Management reported 13 injuries statewide since Wednesday. A 5-year-old in Little Rock died on Saturday, the state’s only storm-related death reported so far.
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2 weeks ago | 
arktimes.com | Rhett Brinkley
The Barnaby Group, the same organization behind Little Rock restaurant George’s and the recent acquisition of the Town Pump, will be constructing a new restaurant called The Lady in Little Rock’s Heights neighborhood and a hospitality retreat called South School in Fayetteville.
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2 weeks ago | 
arktimes.com | Rhett Brinkley
More than 100,000 Arkansans are without power Saturday afternoon following day upon day of severe weather that has uprooted trees, downed power lines and flooded dozens of roadways, according to preliminary reports from the Arkansas Department of Emergency Management. The flooding is forcing evacuations and water rescues around the state. One weather-related fatality was reported in Little Rock on Saturday, a 5-year-old at a home in the 8500 block of Mablevale Pike.
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3 weeks ago | 
arktimes.com | Rhett Brinkley
Just a few days after the announcement that The Bagel Shop will close at the end of April, owners Trevor Papsadora and Myles Roberson revealed that they’ll be staying put, but in a different capacity. Their buzzy pop-up concept, Rex’s, will take over the same SoMa neighborhood space they’ve operated in since August 2023. Rex’s will be familiar to fans of the restaurant who have followed its various pop-up dinner concepts: Cafe Diner, Fancy Place and Tiger Palace.
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3 weeks ago | 
arktimes.com | Rhett Brinkley |Stephanie Smittle |Daniel Grear |Benjamin Hardy |Austin Gelder
As March comes to a close, we’re looking back at some of the best restaurant dishes the Eat Arkansas team came across over the last four weeks. Send us your favorite bites and food selfies over the last month as we plan our April dining schedules. Pad thai curry with yellow curry (off menu) at Bangkok Thai CuisineI’ve been eating at Bangkok Thai Cuisine in the River Market’s Ottenheimer Hall for years, alternating mostly between their pad thai and yellow curry, depending on my mood.
