January 8: Choate discusses first days of Mayoral term by Tia Lyons El Dorado Mayor Paul Choate, only a week into his first term, spoke with the News-Times as City Hall was being touched up and painted. The new mayor detailed his plans for the rest of the year and spoke about things that were already underway as 2023 began.
Reports of the demise of El Dorado landmark Betty s Old Fashion, Arkansas oldest dairy diner and an Arkansas Food Hall of Fame finalist, are apparently premature.
When we began the Arkansas Food Hall of Fame in 2017, we decided to keep it exclusive. I can think of almost 100 restaurants in Arkansas that deserve recognition, but we knew this needed to be something special. Only three restaurants a year are inducted.
Passing by Betty s Old Fashion on Hillsboro Street, it is not uncommon to see a throng of people waiting patiently to receive their order of one of the restaurant s famous hamburgers or ice cream cones.
The new establishment going into what used to be Cregeen s Irish Pub in North Little Rock, which closed Saturday, is to be called Draft and Table, says executive chef and co-owner Kev Doroski.