James Hale, former executive chef and co-owner of Acadia (1999-2015 in Little Rock’s Hillcrest) and briefly, for about a pre-pandemic year, chef at Capital Bar & Grill, departed the Little Rock restaurant scene in 2020 to head up the kitchen at The Grumpy Rabbit in Lonoke. Now he’s back, taking over last week as executive chef at Allsopp & Chapple in Little Rock.
Reports have been swirling that a DeLuca's Pizzeria will be a part of the Breckenridge Village Shopping Center revitalization. Jim Keet of JTJ Restaurants, one of the partners who bought the center at North Rodney Parham Road and Interstate 430, confirms that "while we don't have a final signed deal" with owner Anthony Valinoti, "it's 95% a 'go.'"