For this week’s Taco Tuesday, AY About You visits Con Quesos: Fusion Tacos in Fayetteville. The idea of Con Quesos began when Omar Kasim was a student at the University of Fayetteville. He created a plan for a restaurant that would serve fusion tacos to the Fayetteville community for a course project. He fell…
For this week’s Thirsty Thursday, AY About You sits down with Nathan Mattox, director of operations at Shadrach’s Coffee in Jonesboro. Shadrach’s Coffee started in the late 2004, early 2005 season, and the coffee kiosk drive-thru was originally given a different name. At the time, coffee wasn’t incredibly popular yet, and business at the…
We have been highlighting some amazing tacos over the past several months with our Taco Tuesday feature. For this edition, I wanted to take a little bit of a different approach and feature an untraditional taco, Kemuri’s Ahi Tuna Crispy Taco. Yes, you read right, Kemuri has tacos. Well, they only have one taco,…
For this week’s Taco Tuesday, AY About You visits the food truck-turned-brick and mortar restaurant Mo’Tacos and Churros in Fayetteville. When Juan Garcia decided to start a food truck in 2018, he started from scratch. He had never worked in the restaurant business before, but he was excited to open the truck and serve…
For this week’s Taco Tuesday, AY About You sat down with Rubis Mexican Food, the Conway food truck serving tamales and tacos from scratch. In 2017, Zoila Navarro began selling tamales outside a church in Conway every Saturday. Rain or shine, Zoila would sit under a canopy at the church to make extra money…
For this week’s Taco Tuesday, AY About You stops by TrickDilly, Bentonville’s food truck-turned-restaurant that specializes in tricked out tacos. TrickDilly began as a food truck six years ago with just five tacos on the menu. The owner, Troy Walker, wanted to create special “tricked out” tacos that were available at affordable prices. …
For this week’s Taco Tuesday, AY About You is featuring El Sur Street Food Co., Little Rock’s Honduran-inspired food truck. When Luis Vasquez opened El Sur food truck in April 2019, he wanted to serve traditional Honduran street food, but he wasn’t sure if people in Little Rock would be willing to give the…
I have been keeping an eye on Wicked Taco Factory, the fast-casual Mexican food establishment in the heart of downtown Little Rock for a few weeks now. The restaurant is still new, and I generally wait for a place to work out the kinks before checking it out. But for whatever reason, I deemed last…
For this week’s Taco Tuesday, AY About You heads to Yeyo’s in Bentonville for sustainably sourced tacos. Rafael Rios, founder and executive chef of Yeyo’s, has always focused on a farm-to-table concept for his restaurants. Nearly all of his ingredients are sourced from the Rios Family Farm, which he and his family have operated…
For this week’s Taco Tuesday, AY About You visits Taco Mama in Hot Springs. When Diana Bratton opened Taco Mama, she was no stranger to the restaurant business. She and her husband Shane owned Cafe 1217 in Hot Springs when they decided to remodel a neighboring hardware store. The Brattons decided to remodel the…
