In this week’s Flavors of Northwest Arkansas podcast, we’re at Loma in uptown Rogers talking with Chef Daniel Hernandez, but first!?!
Food News!!
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<li>Lasang Pinoy is FINALLY open in Rogers!</li>
<li>Sidecar in Fayetteville fully opens TODAY!</li>
<li>Happy anniversary to a Bentonville staple!</li>
<li>We hear from the co-owner of Doomsday Coffee about their soon-to-be-opened Springdale store</li>
<li>Grove Food Truck Park opens this weekend!</li>
<li>El Sol in Fayetteville to shut their doors</li>
<li>Burger King on College in Fayetteville closes</li>
<li>Onyx in Springdale opens their doors for good next week!</li>
<li>Get your tickets for tomorrow’s Dish event benefitting the expansion of Arkansas Children’s Northwest!</li>
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LOMA Executive Chef Daniel Hernandez is from Mexico City and made his way to the states to work construction. He very quickly found his way into a kitchen in Missouri, where he started in the dish pit... he worked his way up to the line, and eventually to running the whole thing, and that took over a decade.
He eventually found his way here to Northwest Arkansas, and he’ll tell you how he got here.
And if you’re a Gen-Xer like me, you’ll love to hear what his first job was, and you may have actually done it yourself back in the day.
Chef Hernandez describes his food, and we’ll walk through some menu items. Also, what was it that hooked him in to cooking?? Listen wherever you listen to podcasts or watch on YouTube!