Ashley’s. Sweet. Chef Lee Richardson’s
place really heads back to Southern roots; pastry chef Tandra Watkins creates a
sweet cracklin’ cornbread that goes perfectly with peas, greens or beans on any
particular day. It’s made from War Eagle
Mill grain and it’s delightful.
Markham
& Louisiana inside the Capital Hotel * (501) 374-7474 * www.capitalhotel.com/ashleyswebsite * Read more here.
Bobby’s Country
Cookin’. Sweet. The lines start forming around 11 a.m. each day for folks hoping
to get their meat-and-two-veg on over at the Shackleford cafeteria. The corn muffins are sweet and crumbly. Have yours with some Great Northern Beans,
some sweet tea and if you’re lucky some fried chicken.
301 North Shackleford Road (Little Rock) * (501) 224-9900 * www.bobbyscountrycookin.com
Brown’s Country Store
and Restaurant. Sweet. For 39 years the Benton landmark has been serving up a buffet
featuring catfish, ribs, Southern cooking and fluffy sweet cornbread. Goes well with a little margarine, or if
you’re feeding a sweet tooth try some honey on the table.
Cock of the Walk. Non-traditional. It would be enough for
Cock of the Walk’s cornbread to be the moist, somewhat cake-like
jalapeno-tinged cornbread that it is; when it’s served up by a waitress who
flips it in the skillet… well, that’s just different.
7103 Cock of the Walk Drive (North Little
Rock) * (501) 758-7182 * www.cockofthewalk.biz.
Cotham’s
Mercantile. Johnnycakes. If you’ve only ever tried the burger at Cotham’s you’ve missed out
on the full experience. Cotham’s serves
up its cornbread selection like unsweetened flapjacks with margarine; they’re
nicely crusty on the outside and crumbly in the middle. Get you a mess of collard greens with that.
5301 Highway 161 (Scott) * (501) 961-9284 * Read more here.
1401
West Third (Little Rock) * (501) 370-9177 * www.cothamsinthecity.com
Eunice’s Country
Cookin’. Sweet. Eunice’s serves up fabulous homestyle Beef over Rice and Chicken ‘n’
Dumplings, both of which are improved by the application of the restaurant’s
sweet white cake-like cornbread. You can
even order a pan to take home with you.
3325 South 74th (Fort Smith) * (479) 484-1465 * Read more here.
Franke’s Cafeteria. Skillet
traditional. Here’s a true Arkansas favorite:
that great, crumbly skillet-fried cornbread from the state’s oldest
continually operating restaurant. Still
soaking up all your butter next to your scalloped eggplant on your plate after
all these years. Bonus -- Franke’s is
now doing gluten-free jalapeno cornbread muffins, too.
11121 North Rodney Parham * (501) 225-4487
Regions Center Building downtown * (501) 372-1919 * www.frankescafeteria.com * Read more here.
Fred’s Country
Cooking. Traditional. A welcome haven for travelers in the western part of the state,
this log cabin restaurant south of Waldron serves up fantastic catfish and
burgers as well as some of the best traditional yellow cake cornbread you’ll
find in the state.
16538 Highway 71
(Boles) * (479) 577-2676 * Read more here.
Grandma’s Beans and
Cornbread. Traditional. Can you build a business
on nothing but beans and cornbread? Yes
you can. Though the little Eureka
Springs shop has changed hands numerous times, it’s still serving up barely
sweet cornbread alongside that nearly famous pot of pinto and Great Northern
beans. The combination is one of the
cheapest and most filling dinners you’ll get in town.
200 Village Circle (Eureka Springs) * (479)
253-6561 * www.grandmasbeansandcornbread.com
Homer’s. Traditional and
non-traditional. This is sopping cornbread, the sort you want when you have a plate
of candied yams and turnip greens.
Homer’s serves up meat-and-three plates with your choice of a roll (also
good), the traditional unsweet Arkansas cornbread or a non-traditional
variation with jalapenos. Cornmeal never
meets sugar here, not even in the hush puppies.
2001 East Roosevelt (Little Rock) * (501) 374-1400.
Momma Max’s. Traditional. Beautiful, golden yellow
and buttery, cooked up in a rectangular pan and served with love. Momma Max’s thick cornbread is moist but
crumbly and perfect with some Lima beans or PurpleHull Peas.
1102 West Main (Prescott) * (870) 887-5005 * Read more here.
Shannon’s
Restaurant. Sweet. Better known for doing breakfast any hour of the day, Shannon’s
also serves up great plate lunches, almost always with a choice of roll or
cornbread (except on Fridays, when it’s hush puppies). The sweetish cornbread is meant for sopping
up bean juice and is great with turnip greens.
5511 Dollarway Road (Pine Bluff) * (870) 267-0000
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