Ever want to have a “do-over” for something you did years ago? I’ve been having that sort of sensation when it comes to Facci’s Italian Ristorante in Hot Springs for quite some time.

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We’ve stopped in from time to time since way back when it was in the little building a lot down from its current location, a little weekend date place for myself and the hubster before we were married. Day after we tied the knot, we ate our first post-marriage meal there. Day after that… the restaurant burned down. I kid you not.  Of course, they moved and rebuilt and moved again.

So back in 2007 I went and wrote it up for my personal blog, Tie Dye Travels. I’ve wanted to recommend it to you for some time, but I go back and I look at the photos I took then, and I’m just embarassed.

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No more. The trip to Oaklawn may not have been a profitable one as far as the ponies are concerned, but it was fruitful as far as photos go, and I can now point you over that way and let you read more about the little restaurant that could — and did — survive fire and relocation along Central Avenue. Cheers.

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