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After working on Hop Gardens for about two years, Matt Hawkins is ready to offer a bold assertion about the new Curtis Park business.

“I know that I have the best draft list in Sacramento,” said Hawkins, who owns the taproom and eatery at 2904 Franklin Blvd. with his wife, Jeannine, and his father, Pete.

Intrigued? You'll be able to decide for yourself when the locally owned business opens in the former Coffee Garden space on April 12. Hop Gardens will offer 24 taps, most of which will be beer,…

When you’ve got a hankering for a sandwich loaded with fresh meats and cheeses, sometimes a fast food sub just won’t cut it.

Birmingham is home to some outstanding delis that have attracted loyal customers from all around town. To find out which ones have earned the best ratings from vocal patrons, we looked to the latest online reviews and calculated scores to rank the top 10 delis in the Birmingham area.

The 10 delis on the list range from family-owned standalone stores like Mr. P’s to…

At 2:30 a.m. Wednesday morning, Mid-South farmer Mike Sullivan received unwelcome news: China had just announced it was planning on putting a 25 percent tariff on American soybeans — a crop Sullivan just started planting on 13,000 acres of his Arkansas farm.

“It's been nerve-wracking, to put it mildly,” Sullivan said. “We absolutely cannot lose China as a buyer.”

China buys more American soy than any other nation and purchases about 30 percent of soybeans grown in Arkansas, where most Mid-South…

Cracker Barrel, the Lebanon, Tennessee-based restaurant chain, has always been about good ol’ boy, down-home hospitality and unpretentious Southern cooking.

That’s not exactly the kind of stuff that readily appeals to millennial restaurant-goers — an audience segment that no company can afford to ignore these days.

So Cracker Barrel turned to the Epsilon ad agency in Chicago to develop new advertising specifically aimed at millennials and Gen X’ers and tied to the introduction of a new…

Adjacent to the popular Highlands neighborhoods of Denver, Sunnyside has its own somewhat rustic charm that sets it apart.

The Sunnyside neighborhood is a 1.5-square-mile area in Denver bordered by Federal Boulevard to the west, I-70 to the north, Inca Street to the east and West 38th Avenue to the south.

It's home to about 10,000 residents.

> PHOTOS: Click the image above for a photo tour of Sunnyside.

Once plagued by crime and low property values, Sunnyside has spent the last decade in…

“Whoa!” a preschooler said, mesmerized by the ice cream-making process at Freezing Moo in Kansas City.

She stood by the glass as an employee rhythmically scraped and turned the ice cream with swift, choppy motions. He then scraped the ice cream into a large flat square and smoothed it from side to side and top to bottom. With chocolate syrup, he added decorative touches – a scene with flowers, a snail and a butterfly. Then he rolled the ice cream into small sections and transferred it to a cup…

The Crocker Art Museum Association is seeking architectural and engineering services to design a $40 million event center, art park and parking structure at 2nd and O streets in downtown Sacramento.

Popular Japanese eatery Brug Bakery will hold a grand opening for its fourth Hawaii location this weekend at the Manoa Marketplace.

The new location, which opened two weeks ago, is in the center of the mall near Territorial Savings and Manoa Sushi, and is open Tuesday to Sunday, 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. The business will hold various promotions during the grand opening on Sunday.

“We are really happy to be part of the Manoa community,” President Miho Choi Fernandez said in a statement. “We…

A coffee shop planned in East Sacramento has ties to some local seafood restaurants.

The new business, called Station 38th & J, is in the works at 3711 J St. It comes from Trinh Le and Minnie Nguyen, the husband-and-wife team behind Station 16 seafood restaurant in midtown Sacramento and Firehouse Crawfish in South Sacramento.

Station 38th & J will fill a spot that was previously a Peet's Coffee shop, which closed in December. It's expected to open this summer.

A sign outside the business says…

Restaurateur Benjamin Berg has announced changes to Carmelo’s Italian Restaurant, a longtime Houston concept he acquired a few months ago.

The eatery now goes by the name Carmelo’s Cucina Italiana and now offers a new lunch and dinner menu under the direction of executive chef Daniel Berg, Benjamin Berg’s brother, according to a press release. Additionally, the restaurant will undergo interior modifications over the next sixth months and eventually add a happy hour, weekend brunch and new…