Eat Arkansas

Damn. I need to get over there before it goes belly up.

Bop, get the scallops if you go. I've gotten them and been with a friend who did. They were cooked perfectly and the smashed potatoes and portabello mushrooms they are served on are REALLY good. Friend also got french onion soup and declared it wonderful. I've had their short ribs and they were quite nice.

I believe V.R. jumped in with both feet first when it should have tested the water first. I expect lunch to return bigger and better this fall. As for now, their dinner menu and service is superb. I will be dining there again tonight.

Best thing about Velo Rouge: killer mussels and really ridiculously good mac and cheese.

Wine list is a little weak, a little short. They don't know what kind of fish they serve or where it hails from.

I agree w/ 09'er. I don't understand what "crowd" they're trying to cater to. What's their angle? It's doesn't seem to be very authetic for French food, if that's what VR is aiming for.

I ordered lunch to go at Velo one time. French onion soup and a caesar salad with added (cold, broiled) chicken strips. It was $17. WTF.

The locale seems to have a hex on it: Markham 220 (or whatever that place was called), Nu. I give VR place a year, at most, before they go bust and some sort of consulting firm tries, again, to conceptualize a classy, yet original restaurant theme for downtown Little Rock.

Whatever.

I've been there once with 4 other folks. I was eating light, so the onion soup was good, if not fabulous. I tasted the fondue, and thought it was grainy, more of a rarebit than fondue. Anyway, had a nice chard by the glass. I don't know where they justify their prices however. I don't mind dropping some bucks on an occasional meal, but I want to be awed by the food. This was servicable, but I saw no imagination in the food.

Too bad.

Burgers are good.

Expensive. I don't need all the noise, or the TV

Some restaurant locations are cursed, and this is one of them.

Back in the day, I was a partner in a restaurant in Atlanta. Everything was great, including the location. Several places had went out of business there, but we, of course, had superior food, management, marketing, yadda yadda yadda.

What a mistake that was.

Some locations are cursed, and I feel sorry for the Red Bicycle.