For this week’s Taco Tuesday, AY About You dines with Mockingbird Bar & Tacos in the SoMa district in downtown Little Rock. Mockingbird Bar & Tacos has remained to-go only during the pandemic, but they’re still coming up with new farm-to-taco specialties. Jack Sundell and Corri Bristow-Sundell opened Mockingbird last year after gaining…
This week’s Taco Tuesday features Tacos Atilano, the food trucks that are serving up Central Arkansas’ most authentic Mexican food. When Serginho Atilano began Tacos Atilano food truck, he wanted to bring the street tacos he missed from his visits to Mexico growing up. “When I would go to Mexico in the summers, the…
For today’s Taco Tuesday, AY About You heads to North Little Rock to visit Chuy’s on Warden Road. On Cinco de Mayo this year, Chuy’s on Warden Road expected orders to slightly increase. Their dining rooms had been closed for a month by then, and they expected the holiday to increase their number of…
This week’s Taco Tuesday takes AY Media Group to Tacos Godoy, a taco truck launched last year in Little Rock by Alejandro Gutierrez. “I always wanted to do a restaurant, but realized that was too expensive,” Gutierrez says. “I was about to sign a lease for my restaurant when the food truck came along.”…
Every Tuesday AY will be highlighting a different taco from one of our many wonderful Mexican restaurants and food trucks throughout Arkansas. This week, we’re taking a look at Tacos el Gordo, a food truck set up in the Cupid’s parking lot at 5400 JFK Boulevard in North Little Rock. The funny story is…
This week’s Taco Tuesday takes AY About You to Little Rock’s Casa Mañana where family and authenticity reign supreme. Casa Mañana originally started in Santa Maria, Calif. by the Juarez family, who moved to Little Rock in the early 1990s, according to Ivette Juarez, daughter of the owner and founder. Juarez has worked at…
This week’s Taco Tuesday takes AY to La Hacienda Mexican Restaurant on Cantrell Road! According to Fernando Alvarez, manager and son of the owner of La Hacienda, the restaurant originally started in Hot Springs in 1985 before branching out to Little Rock in 1996. His family currently owns and operates the Hot Springs,…
This week’s Taco Tuesday takes AY to Tacos 4 Life which is making a difference both locally and abroad through its food. Tacos 4 Life was founded by Ashton and Austin Samuelson not just to feed Arkansans, but to feed those facing food insecurity. “We saw world hunger as a solvable problem, leading…
For this week’s Taco Tuesday, AY visits Local Lime on Chenal Parkway! The restaurant opened in November 2011, but the original concept was focused on margaritas. “Conceptually, we wanted to sell a margarita,” Executive Chef Ben Brainard tells AY. “So all of our research started with that. It took two years of trial…
Every Tuesday AY will be highlighting a different taco from one of our many wonderful Mexican restaurants and food trucks throughout Arkansas. And what better place to kick off this new feature than the wildly popular Heights Taco & Tamale Co.in Little Rock’s Heights neighborhood? The menu is filled with plenty of winners, from…
