There's no one street to walk here. What's good is strung across several towns, a drive apart — and everyone who knows this place learned it from someone.
The sourdough Rogers had been missing, fermented slow and yeast-free in a plain Chestnut Street storefront.
The door is a painting. The reason to go is the thirty-deep tiki list behind it, every juice fresh-squeezed and every syrup made in house.
Two rules, no exceptions: gluten-free end to end, and nothing outlasts its season. Matthew Cooper's Bentonville fine dining, up for James Beard's Best Chef: South three years running.
Bentonville's food hub inside a former Tyson plant: restaurants, makers, and the Brightwater culinary school under one roof.
Four Bentonville cafes, no template. One of them is an open-air bar in the woods you can reach only on foot or by bike.
The coalition funding Bentonville's murals by putting grant money straight in the artists' hands.
Rotating contemporary art, free 365 days a year, with a flock of green penguins loose in the building.
The airport came before the museum: Alice Walton builds infrastructure, and art is one of the things she runs through it. Much of it costs nothing to walk into.
A working artist curates these walls for thirty-plus Arkansas makers, and everything on them is for sale.
A block off the square, stocked end to end with goods from around 50 Northwest Arkansas makers.
The counter here trades and buys as well as sells, so the bins off the Bentonville square keep filling with what local collectors carry in.
Swedish for 'at home,' a downtown home-goods shop that's minimal-but-colorful and mostly women-owned brands.
You can be current on this whole scene, which isn't true of most cities. A week of it fits in one note — what changed, and what we'd move an evening for.
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