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This midtown favorite in Little Rock is known for serving up delicious BBQ, brisket, pork, and plenty of unique sides.

KEVIN SWARTZINSKI July 26, 1966 - Aug. 28, 2023 Kevin Swartzinski of Williamston, Michigan, formerly of Alcona, Michigan passed away on Monday, Aug. 28, 202

Count Porkula at the Crossroads opened Tuesday at 201 Keightley Drive, just a smidge north of the intersection of Cantrell Road and Mississippi Street, Little Rock.

Count Porkula on Wednesday officially moved out of its home at The Rail Yard on East Sixth Street and into its new building at 201 Keightley Drive (just north of Cantrell Road), former home (before a devastating fire) of the Ozark Country Restaurant.

We reported a few months ago that Lea Lea's Gourmet Dogs would open a second location at 3400 S. University Ave., Little Rock, in a former hookah bar in the strip center a bit off the main drag. Now it turns out that owner Cherreyl Alexander has closed the original, at 215 Center St. downtown, and is moving, lock, stock and footlongs, to the new location, which should open next week.

We reported a few months ago that Lea Lea's Gourmet Dogs would open a second location at 3400 S. University Ave., Little Rock, in a former hookah bar in the strip center a bit off the main drag. Now it turns out that owner Cherreyl Alexander has closed the original, at 215 Center St. downtown, and is moving, lock, stock and footlongs, to the new location, which should open next week.

March 15 is the target date for the opening of Arkansas' first Waldo's Chicken & Beer in North Little Rock. You will recall that it's a collaborative project from restaurant group JTJ Restaurants with Nashville, Tenn.-based Fresh Hospitality and a group of partners, who together operate a Waldo's in Tulsa.

March 15 is the target date for the opening of Arkansas' first Waldo's Chicken & Beer in North Little Rock. You will recall that it's a collaborative project from restaurant group JTJ Restaurants with Nashville, Tenn.-based Fresh Hospitality and a group of partners, who together operate a Waldo's in Tulsa.

There may have been some expectations, this time last year, that at least at some point during 2021, we’d emerge from the pandemic; that dining out would return to something close to what it had been in, say, 2019, and that God would be in his culinary heaven and all would be right with the world.

There may have been some expectations, this time last year, that at least at some point during 2021, we’d emerge from the pandemic; that dining out would return to something close to what it had been in, say, 2019, and that God would be in his culinary heaven and all would be right with the world.