For those who know about and remember Taylor Wayne, today is his 16th birthday.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, TAYLOR!!!!

As I do at Taylor, Jacob and Amber’s birthday, I have a banana split. It’s hard to eat an entire cake. The split is manageable. The problem: Where to find a banana split. When we arrived in Little Rock the previous Saturday, I had looked for a place near the hotel. No banana splits in Downtown Little Rock that I could find. To the rescue is our tour guide Kerry Krauss and her co-worker, Gloria Robins.

Since we had arrived we had looked for indegenous Arkansas food. Little Rock tourism’s Tonya was incredibly helpful with a tasty sounding list. Unfortunately, we didn’t get to those. We asre planning another trip and I will get to those then.

Kerry had recommended a place called Cothams. She went out of her way and brought her co-worker Gloria, picked us up and drove us to just what we were looking for. There are actually two of these restaurants. Kerry caught what we were looking for and the flavor of the story Sandra was assembling of the area and took us to the more authentic one further way in Scott, Arkansas. Click here to learn of this restaurant set in a 1917 building. They have outstanding fried chicken!!! All of the food was outstanding! Below is a sketch of the counter area there. Inside are lots of bottle and items from the past hundred years. What a place!

Kerry and Gloria then set our course for a banana split! Our stop the very cool ‘The Dixie Cafe’, which is part restaurant and part old fashined ice cream soda fountain. It’s a local chain. I got the celebratory banana split. Kerry, Gloria and Sandra joined me at the counter for ice cream goodies. Well, not Sandra. Here medecine forbid milk products. She had an apple cobbler. There’s a photo of it below. Below that is a blurry photo I took of the fountain area. That’s Gloria to the left. What a neat place!!!