The owners of popular North Little Rock burger spot North Bar have elected to renovate their original location at 3812 JFK Blvd. in Park Hill’s Lakehill Shopping Center, changing previous plans of relocating the restaurant following the fire that heavily damaged the eatery last October.
The fire broke out on a Monday night when the restaurant was closed. North Bar has been operating out of a food truck known as the North Bar Mobile Kitchen since January.
We reported shortly after the food truck’s debut that co-owners Kyle Dismang and Snee Dismang were planning to relocate the restaurant into one of the spaces in the former Rook’s Lamplighter Antiques building at the corner of JFK Boulevard and West H Avenue.
Despite North Bar’s original home needing to be “gutted down to the studs” following the fire, the turnaround there would still be faster than if they moved into the former Rook’s space, Snee Dismang explained in an email response to the Arkansas Times. The storefront will be brand new, and the layout to the front of the house will be rearranged, with the bar that was previously along the west end of the space placed toward the back wall, which they anticipate giving the eatery a “much better flow,” Snee said.
North Bar opened in 2017. It was featured in a season 29 episode of Guy Fieri’s “Diners Drive-Ins and Dives.”
The owners expect construction to be completed in late July to early August. You can follow the progress and keep up with the mobile truck’s schedule here.