With July in the rearview, we're looking back at some of the best restaurant dishes the Eat Arkansas team came across over the last month (plus some of our finest home cooking). Send us your favorite bites and food selfies from the last four weeks as we plan our August dining schedules.
Lemon icebox pie at Home Plate Cafe & Bakery in Hot Springs Village
The lemon icebox pie is a creature of fabulous marketing. It's essentially a key lime pie made with lemons instead of limes, trading the tart tang of green citrus for a bright but subtle sweetness. And on a hot summer day, I challenge you to resist a treat with that name.
On a recent trip back from a Hot Springs swimming hole, my friends and I took a winding country road to visit the impressive bakery case at Home Plate Cafe & Bakery in Hot Springs Village. I wasn't sure yet what I was looking for, only that I couldn't head back to Little Rock without a quick scan of what was on offer. The Home Plate bakery case, the stuff of dreams, is a cornucopia of cannolis stuffed with custard, cobblers crafted in a rainbow of fresh berries, and snickerdoodles the size of a baby's head. But it was the lemon icebox pie that called my name on...
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