re: Fayetteville Recommendations for Traveling Tigers

I love NWA more than just about anywhere. My wife and I chose to move back here after she finished graduate school despite the fact we lived in Colorado and could have realistically moved anywhere we wanted as both our jobs are pretty in demand anywhere.

That being said, the Little Rock food scene is currently superior. It's just a bigger metropolitan area, and it has more people who can afford to spend high dollar on food. Fayetteville is always limited (but also invigorated) by the college market. As such, restaurants are seasonal, and they tend toward the low-end and lowest common denominator. That's one of the reasons that Bentonville is starting to outpace Fayetteville on their higher end restaurants. College kids would rather go and get a huge burrito from Flying Burrito Company (and I love that place) than hit up the Tusk and Trotter at lunch for some interesting cuisine.

I'll throw out a place that hasn't been mentioned yet but that is probably one of of my current favorite places to eat on Dickson: Arsaga's Depot. It's a total locals restaurant, but they pretty much hit on all cylinders for me. Great interesting salads. Poutine if I'm feeling decadent. Killer crepes. Good beer selection. Great atmosphere to sit on the trail and watch the folks go by... that being said, trail probably won't be real happening on Saturday due to the weather.