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Little Rock, Arkansas, USA
Cantrell Gallery is the longest continuously running art gallery and custom-framing business in the Little Rock area, showing work by established and emerging local and regional artists. Alongside its rotating exhibits, it offers restoration, conservation and formal art appraisal services.
Best for Regional art, custom framing, art appraisal
Little Rock, Arkansas, USA
Started in 1947 by Ralph Hinson in North Little Rock, this bakery has run around the clock from Little Rock's historic Cohn Building since Joe Fox reopened it there in 1993. Overnight bakers keep the cases full of scratch-baked donuts, cakes and tiramisu for the morning rush.
Best for 24-hour scratch bakery in the historic Cohn Building
Ralph Hinson started this bakery in 1947 in the Rose City section of North Little Rock, moving it to a storefront near 14th and Main Streets in Little Rock in 1952. His head cake decorator, Agnes Bargiel, bought the business from him in the late 1970s and ran it until she sold it to Joe Fox in 1983.
Fox relocated the bakery again after renovating the vacant, historic Cohn Building at 12th and Main, reopening there in 1993 — the location it still occupies today. The kitchen inside now runs continuously, seven days a week, to keep pace with demand for fresh product each morning.
That round-the-clock schedule produces the donuts, cakes and tiramisu the bakery is known for downtown, made from scratch overnight so cases are full when the doors open. The Cohn Building itself predates the bakery inside it, giving Community Bakery a home with its own local history layered onto the business's — a corner storefront that has sat at 12th and Main since the 1993 renovation, in continuous overnight production ever since.
Little Rock, Arkansas, USA
Guillermo's Gourmet Coffee operates an independent café on North Rodney Parham Road in Little Rock, pouring a wide range of coffee and tea it markets as a farm-to-cup selection. It functions as a single local coffeehouse rather than part of a regional or national chain.
Best for Coffee and tea selection, cafe seating
Little Rock, Arkansas, USA
Loblolly Creamery makes small-batch ice cream in Little Rock, with a SoMa scoop shop on Main Street. Its recipes begin with a scratch-made base and take inspiration from Arkansas seasons and local food producers. The menu includes non-dairy choices as well as baked treats, while the business also offers ice cream cakes and catering.
Best for Small-batch ice cream and baked treats in Little Rock
Loblolly Creamery's SoMa scoop shop is at 1423 Main Street in Little Rock. The business makes its ice cream locally and builds recipes from a scratch-made base. Its flavour choices draw on Arkansas seasons and relationships with local food producers, rather than a fixed list of scoops that never changes.
The creamery describes collaborations using fruit from Barnhill Orchards and bourbon from Rock Town Distillery. These give a sense of how regional ingredients enter the recipes, but a particular flavour may not be available on every visit. The current flavour list is the place to check before setting out for a favourite.
Baked treats and ice cream cakes extend the range beyond a scoop in a cone. Non-dairy choices are available, with ingredient information published separately for customers who need to check a recipe. The company also lists a Benton scoop shop and a Hillcrest soft-serve location. Those are different destinations from the Main Street shop, so selecting the intended branch matters when placing a pickup order.
Little Rock, Arkansas, USA
M2 Gallery relocated to Little Rock's South Main (SoMa) district, where it shows and sells work by a roster of Arkansas-based painters, potters and sculptors. The space is owner-run and doubles as a working studio rather than a franchised showroom.
Best for Arkansas contemporary art, ceramics, studio visits
Little Rock, Arkansas, USA
Mylo Coffee Co. grew out of a Hillcrest Farmers Market stall run by husband-and-wife team Stephanos and Monica Mylonas, who opened a brick-and-mortar shop on Kavanaugh Boulevard in 2014 and later added in-house roasting. The Hillcrest storefront pairs espresso drinks with scratch-made pastries; ownership changed in 2019, but it remains a single neighborhood coffee shop and bakery rather than a multi-city chain.
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Mylo Coffee Co. began as a stall at the Hillcrest Farmers Market around 2012, where husband-and-wife team Stephanos and Monica Mylonas sold hand-crafted pastries and pour-over coffee. Stephanos brought a focus on local ingredients that started on his home island of Cyprus and deepened in the United Kingdom, where the couple met; working with his brother Markos, he built the market stall's baked goods and coffee into enough of a following to open a brick-and-mortar shop on Kavanaugh Boulevard in Little Rock's Hillcrest neighborhood in 2014. The shop later added its own coffee roasting to the pastry-and-espresso program. Ownership changed hands in 2019, and Mylo has since operated under new ownership while keeping its original Hillcrest storefront and scratch-pastry, espresso-forward format rather than becoming a multi-city chain. Today it functions as a single neighborhood bakery-cafe: espresso drinks paired with pastries made in-house, in the same Hillcrest neighborhood where the Mylonas family first sold coffee out of a market stall. It suits regulars who want a genuine neighborhood coffee-and-bakery stop with a documented local-market origin, rather than a franchise outlet.
Little Rock, Arkansas, USA
Phil Brandon left a corporate career in 2010 to open Rock Town Distillery, Arkansas's first legal distillery since Prohibition, distilling bourbon, vodka and gin from Arkansas-grown grains and fruit. Its spirits have won medals at the San Francisco World Spirits Competition, including recognition in 2013.
Best for Arkansas bourbon, vodka, gin, distillery tours
Little Rock, Arkansas, USA
WordsWorth Books stocks new fiction, poetry and Arkansas-interest titles from its Hillcrest storefront and is listed among the state's independent bookstores by national directories such as Poets & Writers. The shop relies on staff recommendations and author events rather than a chain's centralized buying list.
Best for New books, staff picks, author events
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