Two years of pandemic-caused cancellations has meant that Little Rock-based Youth Home Inc., a nonprofit psychiatric treatment facility in Little Rock, has not held either of its two main fundraisers.
City Silo Table + Pantry, which has two locations (and one in the works) in Memphis, will open its first Arkansas outlet in the former Pei Wei in the Promenade at Chenal in Little Rock, in partnership with Nashville, Tenn.-based Fresh Hospitality (Michael Bodner, chairman and partner) and the Keets father James and sons Tommy and Jake.
It was an idea whose time had come. Six years ago, Stacy Hurst, who headed what at the time was the state Department of Heritage, began visiting with historians, food industry representatives and others about the establishment of an Arkansas Food Hall of Fame. She was impressed with what Alabama was doing to promote that state's food culture and thought that Arkansas should do more.
City Silo Table + Pantry, which has two locations (and one in the works) in Memphis, will open its first Arkansas outlet in the former Pei Wei in the Promenade at Chenal in Little Rock, in partnership with Nashville, Tenn.-based Fresh Hospitality (Michael Bodner, chairman and partner) and the Keets father James and sons Tommy and Jake.
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