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Cox Creative Center, 120 River Market Ave., Little Rock, on the Central Arkansas Library System Main Library campus. The menu will be basically the same as it is at the original restaurant, 5116 W. Markham St., Little Rock, including soups, salads, side items, but sandwiches, instead of being toasted, will be grilled on a panini grill, says manager Brad Ahrens, so the texture will be “a little bit different.” Owner Jimmy Wiseman has added several tables and hanging plants to the small seating space. Hours are 10:30 a.m.-3 p.m. Monday-Saturday. A phone number is pending.
Owners Barbara and Tom Fuge report they’ll once again be reopening The Happy Egg (formerly B-Side), in the Market Place Shopping Center, 11121 N. Rodney Parham Road, Little Rock, on Friday “with a streamlined menu and streamlined service.” Hours are 9 a.m.2 p.m. Wednesday through Sunday. The phone number is (501) 716-2700.
Sandy Woods marked the 40th anniversary of her Sandy’s Homeplace Cafe, in a little yellow house at 1710 E. 15th St., Little Rock, on Tuesday by giving away cake to loyal customers. Woods does all the cooking and, says her daughter, Cassandra DeCoursey, “For several years she was the only person running the whole operation.” The cafe offers a country lunch buffet with a weekly rotating menu, 10 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Monday-Friday. The phone number is (501) 375-3216.
The website, blackbeardiner.com, for the Redding, Calif.-based Black Bear Diner chain, which has outlets in several Western states (previously no farther east than Oklahoma), lists a North Little Rock location as “coming soon.” A company spokesman told us it’s headed for Lakewood Village Drive, which would put it in the Lakewood Village Shopping Center, off McCain Boulevard — very possibly, though we have not yet confirmed it, in the free-standing building left vacant by the closure of the Dixie Cafe chain — with a target opening date of mid-November. The restaurants serve an all-day breakfast menu of impressive proportions, plus a lunch that focuses on burgers and sandwiches and a more-orless homestyle dinner menu.
Woodland Bakery is moving at the end of the month from 2808 E. Kiehl Ave., Sherwood, to 13121 Arkansas 107, at Brockington, and with a new name: Woodland Bakery & Bistro, reflecting the addition of a homestyle lunch and dinner menu. That, in turn, will likely result in a change in the hours of operation, currently 10 a.m.6 p.m. Tuesday-Friday, 10 a.m.4
p.m. Saturday. The move is supposed to be seamless, with no closure planned. And the new location, according to the Facebook page, facebook.com/ woodland bakery sherwood, will also apparently include an event center, with two rooms each holding up to 32 people that can be combined to make one larger room. The current phone number is (501) 8195070; the website: woodlandbakeryar.com. A Freddy’s Frozen Custard
& Steakburgers outlet opened July 12 at 820 E. Oak St., Conway, next to the Best Western. The 3,400 square-foot, freestanding restaurant seats 100 with drive-thru service. Hours are 10:30 a.m.-10 p.m. Sunday-Thursday, 10:30 a.m.-11 p.m. Friday and Saturday. The phone number is (501) 2054091. It joins central Arkansas locations on East McCain Boulevard in North Little Rock and at Bowman Road and Chenal Parkway in Little Rock.
And speaking of burgers and frozen treats, the Dairy Queen that opened Friday at 1000 W. Main St., Cabot, opened to what its owners, Blake and Gracie Lively of You Scream Holdings, LLC, say was DQ-record-breaking business — the most transactions in one day and a worldwide DQ record for highest one-day sales, and “outpacing all 7,000 DQ stores in the company’s 78-year history,” according to a news release. Fans, they say, started camping out on the restaurant patio at 7:30 p.m. the previous day to receive one of 100 tickets for free Chicken Strip Baskets for one year with the purchase of a DQ cake on opening day. The Livelys and their company also own