Flavors of Northwest Arkansas

FlavorsOfNWA

A podcast about the burgeoning food and beverage scene in Northwest Arkansas. Includes Bentonville, Rogers, Springdale, Fayetteville, and surrounding areas.

  1. FEB 11

    Natural State Beer Company- Mark Smith & Dan Clous

    In this week’s Flavors of Northwest Arkansas podcast, we’re talking with Mark Smith and Dan Clous of Natural State Beer Company, but before we get to them?!?! FOOD NEWS!!! The Hive at 21C made a prominent national magazine. We’ll tell you what magazine and why they’re in there! Speaking of The Hive, they’re now selling tickets for their No Kid Hungry Fundraiser. We’ll tell you how and where to get them. Zelli Pasta has a new home! Co-owner Mitchell Owen will tell us what’s different about it. Desi Fusion opened in Springdale on Monday. We’ll hear from owner Lucky Sadthra about their fare. NYC Express Deli opened their second location- their first in Benton County. We’ll tell you where! The soon-to-be AQ Chicken House had folks over yesterday for graffiti. Kind of. We’ll explain. We MIGHT have a grand opening date or week for Ozark Charcuterie & Wine Bar’s cheese and wine shop in Rogers. Brewski’s and Natural State Beer Company have Chili Cookoff’s soon! If you’ve been missing Renzo’s Italian Steakhouse, there’s now a way to have it! Happy anniversary to Bella’s Table and Dodo Coffee! In this week’s Flavors Flashback, we’re talking about hairy pasta! True story. Mark Smith and Dan Clous met in a home brewing club here in Northwest Arkansas. Their love for a unique certain style of brewing eventually led to them getting into business with each other. They talk about how they found their peaceful and serene spot to build their brewery. Once you’re there, you don’t feel like you’re a quarter mile from I-49. Soon after opening, they had to survive covid. You’ll hear how they did it, and they were able to because of their location. Also, Dan had to leave NWA for a few years, and you’ll hear why. Oh, and that Chili-cookoff. Taproom manager Haley Arnell will give you the lowdown. And finally, the beers. We had a live-to-tape taste-test, and I do NOT regret it. That’s all next here in the Flavors of Northwest Arkansas.

    1h 4m
  2. FEB 4

    Langman Winery & Restaurant – Jim Langman

    In this week’s edition of the Flavors of Northwest Arkansas podcast, we’re at the Langman Winery and Restaurant in Centerton talking with owner Jim Langman, but before we do?!?! FOOD NEWS!! The AACF Soup Sunday happened last weekend, and you’ll hear from the winners!! To the Table is having their introduction and dining experience dinner! We’ll tell you how to get tickets! Hideaway Pizza is OPEN in Rogers! NY Deli Express is OPEN in Rogers! Monte Ne Inn is back OPEN in Rogers! Desi Fusion will open next week in Springdale. Doe’s Eat Place has closed in Bentonville. Boba Journey has closed in Bentonville. In today’s Flavors Flashback, Café Rue Orleans Co-owner and Executive Chef Maudie Schmitt tells us about her first career Jim Langman was destined to be a pharmacist. He started working in pharmacies as a young teenager and worked his way up to being a VP at Walgreens. He was never a fan of beer, wine, or hard liquor, but will tell us how he ended up getting into wine. He would then buy a vineyard in the Sierra Foothills of California and will tell you why he decided against Napa. Jim and his wife Sue were going to move to California to the winery and live life there until Jim started getting courted by Walmart. After a second career with Walmart, they fell in love with Northwest Arkansas and scrapped the California plans, but not the wine. Jim will tell us about Langman Winery and Restaurant next, here on the Flavors of Northwest Arkansas.

    1 hr
  3. JAN 28

    Flashback Pizza & Milkshakes – Dustin Simmons

    Hello there- hope this finds you warm and dry! I’m John Engleman and welcome to this week’s edition of the Flavors of Northwest Arkansas podcast.  This week, we’re talking with Dustin Simmons, Co-owner and Executive Chef of Flashback Pizza & Milkshakes in Rogers, but before we talk to him?!?! FOOD NEWS!! I want to start with this. Your local restaurants and bars have taken a hit the last 5 days. Some have opened, but most folks haven’t gotten out because of the roads... and I get it. But as the conditions improve, please consider getting out to local restaurants and bars, as your favorite establishments and servers have taken a pretty big hit. There’s no better time to get out and support them than now and isn’t it about time to have someone else cook, anyway?!?! ChoKolata Dessert Lounge is officially open in Springdale! Zelli Pasta is expanding into downtown Springdale The Michelin-recommended restaurant Written by the Seasons is coming to Bentonville! The new Whole Foods in. Rogers will be opening soon! Happy anniversary to Dodo Coffee Company! You have a month to complete the downtown Fayetteville Coffee Crawl A popular coffee shop steps away from one of their locations. The Tontitown Grape Festival has announced their dates! We talk Soup Sunday with Event Chair Channing Barker! Flashback Pizza and Milkshake Co-owner and Executive Chef Dustin Simmons is a Rogers native and wanted to be a rockstar. Hey, at least he tried. He also did a stint in retail ownership but then went to Brightwater and that’s where he found his calling. His favorite job was his first one, he’ll tell you what that was. Also, how did Flashback Pizza and Shakes come up with their concept? Finally, they had their soft opening the day before the Rogers tornadoes hit.  They paused everything help the community. Dustin tells those stories and more next here on the Flavors of Northwest Arkansas.

    56 min
  4. JAN 21

    Clementine's Ice Cream- Tamara Keefe

    In this week’s edition of the Flavors of Northwest Arkansas Podcast, we’re talking to Tamara Keefe. She’s the Founder & CEO of Clementine’s Ice Cream which just opened in Bentonville, but before we get to her?!?! FOOD NEWS!! Huntsville Baker Hannah’s Cake Co made the Queen of Country’s 80th birthday cake! We’ll her from the cake-maker! Slim Chickens is building a donation to No Kid Hungry The Rendezvous Junction Brewing Company’s Third Annual Chili Cookoff was won with a family recipe. Ping Pong for Paws is back at Ozark Beer Company. We’ll tell you how to get signed up. The Artemis Temperance Lounge opened last week in Fayetteville. It’ll be many things. Tamara Keefe was saved by ice cream twice in her life, once as a kid an again as an adult. The Owner, Founder and CEO of Clementine’s Ice Cream has been professionally successful twice in life, but the first time wasn’t NEAR fulfilling. It took a come to Jesus with her closest friends to help her realize that. And that was the start of Clementine’s Ice Cream. She took her executive marketing skills, and some newly acquired DIY skills and got to work. She’ll tell you how she got her name out there while she was making her ice cream at home. Also, what was it like for her building out her first ice cream parlor? And how did she get her newest spot on the Walmart campus? We talk to Tamara Keefe of Clementine’s Ice Cream on this edition of the Flavors of Northwest Arkansas...

    52 min

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A podcast about the burgeoning food and beverage scene in Northwest Arkansas. Includes Bentonville, Rogers, Springdale, Fayetteville, and surrounding areas.

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