The Root Cafe was one of 50 U.S. restaurants to receive a $50,000 grant from the 2024 Backing Historic Small Restaurants grant program.
Corri Bristow Sundell
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The Root Cafe to open a second location in Breckenridge Village, owners sell Mockingbird Bar & Tacos
We received a press release today confirming rumors that The Root Cafe is one of the restaurants planning to open in the new multi-million dollar Breckenridge Village redevelopment. Owners Jack Sundell and Corri Bristow-Sundell have sold Mockingbird Bar & Tacos to JLC Entertainment Holdings, owned by Johnny Campbell and Harry and Joe Einhorn. Little Rock Mayor hopeful Greg Henderson, commercial real estate agent and owner of Rock City Eats, brokered the sale of the restaurant, which closed today.
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The Root Cafe celebrates 10th birthday
The Root will reopen its indoor dining room on Friday, July 9.
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Dos Rocas relaunches as Mockingbird Bar and Tacos
Dos Rocas, which opened at 1220 S. Main St. in January, officially relaunched as Mockingbird Bar and Tacos on Thursday. Jack Sundell and Corri Bristow-Sundell, who own The Root Cafe, are now the sole owners of Mockingbird, which Sundell said will be taking an Arkansas local food approach to Latin American cuisine.
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Little Rock’s Dos Rocas gives a nod to Paraguay
Arkansas Times readers named it the “Best New” restaurant in Central Arkansas.
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L’Oréal, Halter’s Scenic Hill Solar open massive new solar project in NLR.
Cosmetics maker L’Oréal and Scenic Hill Solar, a Little Rock-based solar energy company started by former Arkansas Lt. Gov. Bill Halter, cut the ribbon this morning on a massive new power generating solar array in North Little Rock.
