Food helps build community and the only way to keep this ball rolling is if each of us continue to try out new and different things. With that said, I’ve made a call to TMR readers to try out new (to them) options throughout the area and share with me their thoughts. Below is a collection of actual responses. Simply put, I encourage you to keep discovering new restaurants, dishes, baked goods, coffees, and just about anything related to food and drink. Then share it with me through a direct message on Facebook. Then I’ll share with our audience. Lunch at Gadwall’s “After living in Little Rock ..read more

Food helps build community and the only way to keep this ball rolling is if each of us continue to try out new and different things. With that said, I’ve made a call to TMR readers to try out new (to them) options throughout the area and share with me their thoughts. Below is a collection of actual responses. If this strong participation continues, we’ll make this a regular thing. Simply put, I encourage you to keep discovering new restaurants, dishes, baked goods, coffees, and just about anything related to food and drink. Then share it with me through a direct message on Facebook. Then I’ll ..read more

Food helps build community and the only way to keep this ball rolling is if each of us continue to try out new and different things. With that said, I’ve made a call to TMR readers to try out new (to them) options throughout the area and share with me their thoughts. Below is a collection of actual responses. If this strong participation continues, we’ll make this a regular thing. Simply put, I encourage you to keep discovering new restaurants, dishes, baked goods, coffees, and just about anything related to food and drink. Then share it with me through a direct message on Facebook. Then I’ll ..read more

By Dillon Garcia As someone who has spent their entire career in the restaurant industry, I know that what we’re really selling is not just food or drinks … but an experience. There’s a reason we’re willing to pay so much more to dine in a restaurant rather than at home, and it’s not just so we don’t have to do dishes. I’m even the type of person that cringes at the idea of spending $50 on new clothes but you tell me about a fun new restaurant and I turn in to Philip J. Fry screaming “Shut up and take my money” faster than Farnsworth’s dark matter engine. So when I was making plans with a frie ..read more

By: Kat Freyaldenhoven A day devoted to thankfulness, gathering, food, and wine makes it easy for Thanksgiving to be one of my favorite holidays. Here at Vino, we think of wine as an essential ingredient to the meal. Thanksgiving meals are usually all over the map, so wine pairings that can cover a lot of territory are needed. This wine tasting guide should cover all of the Thanksgiving territory and give you some great affordable options to wow your guests. Whites: Having a white wine with a little sparkle and a crisp finish is great when trying to pair for a wide variety of foods. Below are ..read more

By: Kat Freyaldenhoven For those of you who love great deals, Spanish wine is where it’s at! Fun fact: Spain is one of the largest wine-producing countries in the world, but because the majority is used for distilling Brandy, they get booted behind France and Italy. Spain is the hidden gem of all wine regions if you ask me. With so many different microclimates to choose from, it makes for the ultimate wine-makers playground. You can actually purchase really beautiful wines for a really beautiful price. Who’s not all about a good deal? Many of us were trained to think that if a wine is at a low ..read more

By Kat Freyaldenhoven Who’s ready to fire up the grill this Labor Day Weekend?I know we sure are! There are a lot of wine-lovers out there that have a hard time knowing what to bring to a BBQ. Do you just bring box wine so you don’t look too boujee when turning down the beer or spiked lemonade offered? (Obviously nothing wrong with either beverage…these are just the hard facing issues for wineo’s.) Wine should be at every occasion in my opinion! This also seems to be the Southwestern region of France’s opinion as well! Madiran is home to our featured wine this month … Petit Torus. A wine for ..read more

The revelers drink of choice.  By Kat Freyaldenhoven  Do you hear it? That! Right there! The singing in your ears at 12:00 in the afternoon on hot, Arkansas, summer days. The calling of a chilled, crisp beverage that will help you take your mind off the lawn work beckoning your attention, the kiddie pool calling to be cleaned, and the summoning of your white huskies fir needing to be tamed. (#reallife #dogdaysofsummer.) Then the phrase, “Rose`-all-day”, soothes me into permission to pour myself a glass of wine in the middle of the afternoon…because even the most mundane moments of li ..read more