On this week’s edition of the Flavors of Northwest Arkansas Podcast, we hop up to Bentonville Provisions where we talked with Chef and Owner Carrie Burse, and this lady has a pedigree!

She went to chef school in Napa Valley before getting to work at a 3 Michelin star restaurant for her externship. Wait till you hear what she did there.

She found out that there was a food program out west at Google and her stage (or tryout) was intense. What till you hear what she had to go through.

Chef Carrie will also tell us how she got to NWA and what she did when she got here before she opened Bentonville Provisions.

And speaking of Bentonville Provisions, what is it? A restaurant? Bar? Store? The answer is Yes, and more. Hear about it from Chef and owner Carrie Burse on the Flavors of Northwest Arkansas podcast.

In this week’s episode of the Flavors of Northwest Arkansas podcast, we head to the arts district in downtown Springdale, as we talk to Daniel Hintz and Chef Jennifer Hill Booker of Bauhaus Biergarten. We get into German food and German beer, a very underrepresented concept in our area. Jennifer’s background includes a stint in Germany and she tells us what it’s been like introducing it to an area.

Daniel will tell you that he’s a beer nerd and proud of it. They don’t serve domestic beers there, but they do have more than German beers, including beer from the oldest brewery on earth. They’re only a few decades away from their 1000th birthday! Not kidding.

Relationships and collaborations are their lifeblood, and they have some great stories about that and how it’s really helped them grow.

We hope you check it out (Available wherever you get your podcasts)!

On this week’s edition of the Flavors of Northwest Arkansas podcast, we found ourselves in Bentonville at a newer place that I’d heard about called Cura Culinary. It’s a smaller restaurant located inside Bentonville Provisions over by the Momentary and it’s run by husband and wife team Garyn and Mia Folden.

If Garyn’s name sounds familiar to you, you were probably at Top Chef NWA in November where he took home the big trophy. He’s no stranger to the local food scene, having worked at places like the River Grille, Tusk and Trotter and others.

Mia keeps the front of house in order while maintaining their social media, curating the wine list, and basically everything else you could possibly think of.

Garyn’s not from here, but will tell you how he got here. He and Mia had a plan that didn’t include staying in NWA. They took their talents to New York where they learned what they wanted to be, what they didn’t want to be, and WHERE they wanted to be- which was back in NWA.

They’ve been open for a month and a half at this point. They’ll tell you what their future plans are in this episode. We hope you check it out (available wherever you listen to podcasts).