To exist inside “Never Leave” — the first new release from beloved ’90s Little Rock tweemo band Everyone Asked About You in 25 years — is to be desperate but understood, occasionally even hopeful because someone feels things just as deeply as you do.
John Beachboard
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Please check in with your counselor at Camp Taco
Camp Taco at Lost Forty, the new restaurant and small batch brewery from the Yellow Rocket Concepts restaurant group, opened for business yesterday afternoon. We popped in for a look.
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Lost Forty Brewing to open in mid-December
Lost Forty, the much-anticipated brewery from Yellow Rocket Concepts and the people who brought you Big Orange, Local Lime and ZaZa, should open by mid-December with a grand opening to follow in the spring, according to co-owner Scott McGehee. Large scale brewing is scheduled to begin this week in Lost Forty’s 19,000-square-feet space at 501 Byrd Street in the warehouse district east of Interstate 30. Meanwhile, McGehee is prepping the menu for Pint and Pantry, the brewery’s tap room restaurant.
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Local Lime team buys Browning’s, to open Heights Taco & Tamale Company
The restaurateurs behind Local Lime have purchased Brownings and will replace it with a Tex-Mex restaurant, Heights Taco & Tamale Company. The group takes ownership of the space, 5805 Kavanaugh Blvd., on July 1, after which co-owner Scott McGehee said he expects around a three-month renovation, which would put opening around early October.
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Owners of Big Orange, Local Lime and ZaZa to open brewery Lost 40
Yellow Rocket Concepts, the team behind Big Orange, Local Lime and ZaZa, is expanding into the beer business. Partners John Beachboard, Scott McGehee and Russ McDonough have leased 19,000-square-feet in the former headquarters of Candy Bouquet in the warehouse district east of I-30 for a production brewery they’re calling Lost 40 Brewing Co.
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John Beachboard helps Big Orange, Local Lime and ZAZA grow from within
He grooms employees for eatery empire.
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Big Orange heading to Midtown
For all those burger-lovers who live in downtown or midtown to whom driving out to the Promenade at Chenal feels like driving to Conway, good news: Big Orange, the immensely popular West Little Rock burger joint, is expanding to the east.
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Local Lime opens in Promenade at Chenal
Local Lime, the latest restaurant from the chefs who brought Little Rock ZaZa and Big Orange, is scheduled to celebrate its soft opening tonight through the weekend and, after closing on Monday, officially open on Tuesday.
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ZaZa and Big Orange restaurateurs to open Local Lime
John Beachboard and Scott McGehee are adding to their burgeoning mini-empire of restaurants in Central Arkansas.