After many months of being closed on Monday nights due to staffing challenges, Trio’s Restaurant will be resuming Monday night dinner service beginning Aug. 5. buff.ly/3ymO59R

Community Bakery is opening a new West Little Rock location in the Market Place shopping center at 11121 N. Rodney Parham Road. buff.ly/3AcVgSu

Lowell’s Goat Lab Brewery has released a new pilsner named TUSK to celebrate its partnership with Arkansas Razorbacks and Arkansas Edge collective. buff.ly/4dF6X2T

Platnum BBQ has taken over the restaurant space formerly occupied by David’s Burgers in the River Market’s Ottenheimer Hall food court. buff.ly/3yKnCTA

Serving the tastiest of traditional New York-style pizza, Different Dough Pizza Co. in Bryant also stealthily introduces Arkansas to the hottest pizza style fresh from Michigan: the deep dish, sauce-on-top, cheese-crusted Detroit-style pizza. arktimes.com/eat-arkansas/2…

Pizza Hut is officially back in the Riverdale Shopping Center and giving away free pizza for a year to the first 25 customers on Friday. arktimes.com/eat-arkansas/2…

Arkansas Times culture editor Daniel Grear is off to a great start to the weekend after playing a show at White Water Tavern Thursday night and waking up early on his day off to be the first in line to score free pizza for a year. arktimes.com/eat-arkansas/2…

After 55 years in the restaurant business, Mark Abernathy is hanging up his chef coat after selling Riverdale restaurants Loca Luna and Red Door to Fidel Samour’s Remolinos Group, the entity behind Sterling Market and Fidel & Co. arktimes.com/eat-arkansas/2…

The former Olde World Pizza building across the street from the State Capitol has been leveled, and the owners of the property want to build an office space on the lot that will complement the Capitol. arktimes.com/eat-arkansas/2…

Minute Man No. 14 in El Dorado — the last remaining restaurant in a storied fast food franchise founded in downtown Little Rock in 1948 — appears to have closed. buff.ly/4dxYGOu

Anthony Valinoti’s wildly popular Hot Springs pizzeria, Deluca’s, will open its second location on Wednesday, Oct. 2, in West Little Rock’s Breckenridge Village shopping center. arktimes.com/eat-arkansas/2…

A food pantry in Flippin, AR only has funding until December according to AR Dept. of Human Services. Phillip Powell arktimes.com/arkansas-blog/…

Red Lobster's West Little Rock location will be the first in Arkansas to close following the company's Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing earlier this year. arktimes.com/eat-arkansas/2…

Feltner’s Whatta-Burger, a longtime popular restaurant for Russellville residents, Arkansas Tech students and Interstate 40 travelers heading to and from Northwest Arkansas, was listed for sale earlier this month. arktimes.com/eat-arkansas/2…

Vino’s new Bottom Feeder Lager, brewed to celebrate the Arkansas Times’ 50th anniversary, isn’t as murky as it sounds. It’s delightfully crisp, clean and palatable for a table full of suits or a band of train-hopping punks pre-gaming before their set. arktimes.com/eat-arkansas/2…

Matt Knight, the pitmaster and barbecue mad scientist behind KnightFire BBQ, announced plans over the weekend to relocate his barbecue joint from its current location on South Main Street to 1404 E. Race Ave. in Searcy.arktimes.com/eat-arkansas/2…

Diamond Bear Brewery of North Little Rock will be up for auction in October unless owner Russ Melton gets a suitable offer beforehand, Arkansas Business reported on Wednesday. arktimes.com/eat-arkansas/2…

The winners of the 2024 Arkansas Food Hall of Fame class will be revealed on Monday, Sept. 30 at Ben E. Keith Food Mid-South Distribution Center in North Little Rock.arktimes.com/eat-arkansas/2…

Southern Tail Brewing — the newly built, 11,000 square-foot brewery/taproom located at 900 E. 9th St. — will open to the public on Monday, becoming the third brewery operating in the downtown area east of Interstate 30. arktimes.com/eat-arkansas/2…

There’s still time to support the Arkansas Food Bank’s efforts to combat food insecurity in Arkansas by eating at local restaurants for Central Arkansas Restaurants Weeks.arktimes.com/eat-arkansas/2…