Faby's is Fabulous

roasted salsa!

road trip! looking for some tasty mexican food, not the hum drum b.s. that's being churned out at the most popular mini-mexi chains around the central arkansas area, i headed to conway. not that little rock doesn't have some unique sit down mexican restaurants, only b/c i reached out to my lovely latina resource late. we decided on Faby's located in small strip mall. pulling up looked bleak. only one freakish looking dude eating away & staring up at a tv. hmmm. we ventured in and are sure glad we did. within seconds we had thin (yes!) chips and roasted salsa (yum!). we ordered up a starter of guacamole (Mmmm) and while finishing up on the guac, a gratis mini bowl of frijoles borrachos (perfectly tender & super flavorful!) arrived.  i, trying to recapture a taste from the past, ordered a stuffed avocado - a deep fried ½ avocado "stuffed" with skrimps and cheese. my entrée came with rice, refried beans (super delicioso) and a taco wrapped in a homemade tortilla and filled with my choice of meat ☞ beef. the beef was a super tender & super tasty skirt steak. needless to say, i was stuffed after the meal. but after the server cleared our table a bonus slice of chocolate cake arrived. right, faby does not want you to leave hungry. we didn't. GO TO CONWAY.

guacamole!

free frijoles borrachos!

skrimp stuffed avocado & beef skirt taco

free choco caramel cake!

Faby's Restaurant (Mexican & Continental Fare)

2915 Dave Ward Drive, #1

Conway

501-329-5151

note: comb the menu, there are some real treasures if you read each description and don't order the same ole slop you normally do. you will be pleasantly surprised. look into my eyes, do not look around my eyes, you will drive to conway and eat at Faby's. the salsa is worth the trip, yo.

Green Corner Trolley Food Cart

Lori in the window of her cool food trolley which was made in North Little Rock!

thanks to a friend who heard it from a friend that there is a new vegetarian lunch wagon parked near vinos, we decided to hit it one late monday afternoon. the weather permitted us to sit outside at one of the two picnic tables provided. we had a long and enjoyable chat with lori, the owner of GREEN CUISINE which serves up vegetarian sandwiches and interestng sides of sweet potato slaw, red quinoa and angel hair pasta salads. I had the daily special that was sort of a ratatouille on ciabatta roll and a side of sweet potato slaw. delish. never would have thought to make a slaw out of sweet potatoes! Lori let us sample the cold angel hair pasta salad and it was truly tasty and the red quinoa salad was Mmmmmmmmmm. check her lunch trolley out: she's parked on Chester Street between 6th & 7th in a fenced in parking lot across the street from the fire station. go.

Green Cuisine
Chester Street between 6th & 7th

is this cooking? really? UPDATE

lrb went to the kitchenco soup night: crawfish corn chowder & mushroom wild rice "cooking class". cooking class is in quotes because i am not sure the instructor cooked anything...scanning files, scanning files, oh, yeah, she cooked the wild rice.  the southwestern part of the chowder was sprung on the class after we got there & were given a typo ridden recipe handout, as you can read online, the southwestern is omitted.  the bulk of the SOUTHWESTERN crawfish corn chowder recipe was opening off-brand cans of corn, creamed corn, cream of potato soup and jarred salsa, that's right, and dumping them into a le creuset dutch oven. i am sure if that le creuset pot could've screamed, it would have.  the class should be labeled as EASY/BEGINNER/RETARD and definitely isn't worth the $39.95 price tag, especially when we were being served up generic kroger brand ingredients. may i remind you that The Fresh Market is a hop, skip & jump away from kitchenco? ugh. it seemed the recipe was being test driven right then and there. not a family fav and Karol couldn't even recall the name of the magazine she ripped it off from. yes, lrb has high expectations and you should too.

UPDATE: the morning after the demonstration of pouring generic brand canned vegetables and soups into a pot and warming them up, i gave kitchenco a call. i spoke to jennifer and gave her a list of reasons why the class, was, uh, not a cooking class but rather something more akin to a recipe that one would find on the label of a can Campbell's soup. she listened and with a "we'll see what we can do" said she'd pass my comments on to jay, the manager, and he would return my call. 2 days later - no call from jay.

let me guide you to the purple rain

grape juice. you’ve never had grape juice until you’ve had FRESH JUICED GRAPE JUICE. i bought some 99¢ per lb seedless black grapes and here is the result. super sweet, pleasantly purple and tastes NOTHING like the bottled grape juices i’ve sampled. the taste is closer to that of homemade grape jelly. yeah. MMmmm.

WOKa WOKa Custom Stir Fry

coming soon to maumelle: WOKa Woka Custom Stir Fry. the menu looks a lot like Genghis Grill. hopefully, here, you'll get lunch without the colon blow.

WOKa WOKa
Custom Stir Fry
1800 Club Manor Drive #1
Maumelle
(501) 803-9083

mt. fuji

sashimi & tempura dinner!

dessert

mt. fuji. umami. comfortable. fun. never too crowded. good people watching and great service. sashimi & tempura dinner. it doesn't get any better. the meal begins with miso soup and an iceberg lettuce salad. the dinner comes with my perennial fav: seaweed salad. shrimp dumplings, veg and shrimp tempura, 3 kinds of sashimi and deep fried pork pack the bento box. YUM. the grand finale is a scoop of ice cream topped with a sabre pierced cherry. it's a celebration for your mouth. have one. $21.95 and worth every cent.

Mt. Fuji

10301 N. Rodney Parham Road
Little Rock

501.227.6498