Chef Payne Harding of Cache Restaurant competes in worldwide Favorite Chef competition
Chef Payne Harding of Cache Restaurant competes in worldwide Favorite Chef competition Payne Harding
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Payne Harding who, along with his father, Rush, owns Cache Restaurant at 425 President Clinton Avenue in the River Market district, was selected to compete in the online chef competition Favorite Chef. How Harding ended up in the competition is a bit of a mystery, he said, because he never applied.
Harding noticed in an email that he’d been selected for the contest shortly after going through two casting rounds for the Food Network’s Guy Fieri show “Guy’s Grocery Games.” Due to the timing, he thinks he was hand-selected by an L.A. casting director he’d been in contact with.
40 years of Arkansas Times Readers Choice
40 years of Arkansas Times Readers Choice
Forty years ago this year, the
Arkansas Times first asked its readers to vote on their favorite restaurants. That kind of history makes our annual Readers Choice restaurant poll the gold standard among an array of latecomers by other publications.
To celebrate the anniversary, here are some memorable quotes, factoids and other odds and ends from the last four decades:
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“Over the years, perhaps no activity has occupied as much of man’s attention as the getting and serving of food: not sex, not religion, not even war. First, man was a gatherer, then a hunter, and finally a farmer who raised crops and animals that made their way to their board by dint of the plow or the hatchet. Way back there, it didn’t matter so much how a meal was prepared: a Neanderthal was tickled with a loin chop just off the hoof, with little or no roasting.”
Best Restaurants in Arkansas 2021
Best Restaurants in Arkansas 2021 Matthew Martin
This year marks the 40th anniversary of the Arkansas Times’ Readers Choice restaurant contest. The issue went to press at a time when restaurants have, for just shy of one year, been faced with a pandemic and the necessary safety rules that have limited their customers. So, this year, we have a new category to join our traditional bests: Best Pandemic Dining. Our readers have praised Trio’s Restaurant and The Hive in Bentonville for keeping diners safely spaced. They’ve toasted Flyway Brewing and Superior Bathhouse Brewery in Hot Springs for their beer-to-go service. (A feature on Flyway, which also won Most Innovative, illustrates how it kept aloft.) They’ve recognized Star of India for its to-go packaging (and we give Sami Lal his due for his enduring success). Our readers found much to praise in restaurants from Fayetteville (Atlas and The Farmer’s Table Cafe)
Crafting cocktails at home with Arkansas bartendersÂ
Crafting cocktails at home with Arkansas bartenders Kat Wilson
Whether youâre starting 2021 with a Dryuary or toasting the New Year until the fetid smell of 2020 has worn off, Januaryâs become a time to get thoughtful about alcohol â what we love, what we hate and what role it plays in our newly pandemic-stricken social lives. Itâs also the month when, in 1919, Arkansas ratified the Eighteenth Amendment, establishing prohibition in the state and ushering in a formalized relationship between booze and government. So, in January 2021, the Arkansas TimesÂ
raises a glass to all things boozy with a series weâre calling Drink/Drank/Drunk: our cityâs great cocktails and mocktails, the history of temperance in the state, brews to try before you die, a boozy playlist and more.Â
Christmas takeout, anyone?
December 16, 202011:08 am
2020 is almost behind us. We just have to get through the holidays, which brings its own unique blend of anxiety and stress even more so this year. The surge of post-Thanksgiving coronavirus infections is an indicator that it’s not safe to gather indoors with people outside of our households. So if you’re staying home or changing things up, here’s a list of restaurants offering Christmas takeout meals to make the holiday a little easier.
Boulevard Bread Co. is taking holiday orders until 7 p.m., Tuesday, Dec. 22. Pick up will be Christmas Eve between 2 p.m.-5 p.m. Choose between a whole roasted beef tenderloin with horseradish cream or a smoked ham glazed with butter and honey. Also on the menu: gumbo, salmon, sides and desserts. Call 501-663-5951 to make an order.