Down Home Restaurant & Catering, 9219 Stagecoach Road, Little Rock, has formed a partnership with Hot Springs legendary McClard s Bar-B-Que that will create McClard s and Down Home Catering.
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.
James Hale, the former executive chef and co-owner of Acadia in Little Rock’s Hillcrest, has taken over as executive chef at Allsopp & Chapple in downtown Little Rock.