Category: Spring 2026

  • From the Kitchen

    From the Kitchen

    Arkansas restaurateurs share recent wins, challenges, and what their customers continue to love Sauce(d) Bar and Oven, The Butcher Shop, Red Moon Tavern, and Zin Wine Bar Little Rock With four unique west Little Rock eateries, Leslie and Kevin Case strive to keep quality, flavor, and local flair at the forefront of all they do How long…

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  • Get to Know: Merrick’s Menu

    Get to Know: Merrick’s Menu

    On Instagram, at Merrick’s Menu (@merricksmenu), he shares his latest restaurant visits and recs on what to order with almost 7,000 followers.

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  • Past Perfected

    Past Perfected

    Chef Rafael Rios and his family diversify Northwest Arkansas’s Mexican food offerings, while remaining true to their heritage

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  • Let’s Visit Ferndale Market

    Let’s Visit Ferndale Market

    Upon their retirement, Dr. Michelle Krause and her husband, Kent, had the idea to move to Northwest Arkansas and start a naturally grown farm stand. But life had other plans, and the pair thought, Why wait?

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  • Come One, Come All

    Come One, Come All

    For Ryan Watley, CEO of Go Forward Pine Bluff, bringing the Magnolia Food Market & Bar to fruition was a labor of love.

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  • Paradise Found

    Paradise Found

    Writer: Tiffany Adams Photographer: Bailey Dougan The cafe at Shangri-La Resort celebrates 70 years of homestyle meals in an unrivaled lakeside setting “I have found my Shangri-La.” The phrase exclaimed by Emile Dufek when he arrived with Louise and D.M. Hunter to prospect the land for Shangri-La Resort still rings true. As guests drive up a…

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  • On Fire

    On Fire

    Jason Cummings didn’t set out to create another hot sauce. He set out to create the right one.

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  • New & Notable

    New & Notable

    Writer: Virginia Brown Photographer: Lawrence Elizabeth Knox & Jamie Lee Arkansas makes waves with two James Beard Award nominations and an ever-growing list of additions to the restaurant scene Benny’s BagelsFayetteville Originally launched in Dallas in the 1990s, Benny’s Bagels is now open in Fayetteville at 826 North Leverett Avenue, in the former Eureka Pizza space. The location is…

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  • Spring 2026

    Spring 2026

    We’re so excited to share our fifth (!) edition of PLATED: The Arkansas Dining Guide! On the Cover: Yeyo’s El Alma de Mexico in Bentonville. Photographed by Rett Peek. Find this cover story on page 35. PLATED is your resource for all things dining in the state. You’ll find statewide news on the Arkansas food…

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