Butter/Scotch Bakery & Bar- Sam Gibson

On this week’s edition of the Flavors of Northwest Arkansas podcast, we’re at Butterscotch in the Bentonville Square- you know the place- part bakery, part bar. We get into that, but first! FOOD NEWS!

• Applications are open for the Arkansas Food Hall of Fame...
• The original location of Slim Chickens is closed until summer, we think. We took video yesterday and, well, the original building is gone.
• Cobblestone Farms in Fayetteville is now reserving 2025 Spring/Summer CSA shares....
• The 2^nd annual NWA’s shortest St. Patrick’s Day parade has been announced. We have the particulars.
• Fayetteville’s Spoon Fusion Korea Oh-K Dog on Dickson Street will temporarily close starting today and will re-open the 24^th, according to their social media post. (*)
• Some sad news to report. Popular Fayetteville Food Truck Swag Banh Mi announced yesterday that they’ll be closing down in 3 months. We’ll hear why from a co-owner.

Sam Gibson is the Director of Operations and Bar Manager of Butterscotch Bakery and Bar in the Bentonville Square. He’s been there since he helped concept it with longtime friends and owners Sam and Larissa KcKenzie. He’ll tell us why it’s a bakery and bar, of course, a unique pairing..

Also, how did they wrangle prime real estate on the Bentonville square?!?! We’ll hear that story as well.

We’ll talk about the bakery and what Sam wants to see on store shelves nation-wide from there, and he makes us some EXCEPTIONAL Butterscotch Old Fashions, I can say that it’s the best Old Fashion that I’ve ever had...

Sidenote- a bit of explicit language in this one, so plan accordingly.

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