Chef Matthew Cooper opened his new Bentonville restaurant Conifer to much anticipation in August. There, the James Beard Award nominee is taking simple, local ingredients and making them brilliant without transforming them into something they were never intended to be.
Peat & Pearls, a new regional supper club with chapters in eight cities across the South, is hosting two farm-to-table dinners this fall in Northwest Arkansas. The first will be at Conifer, chef Matthew Cooper's new restaurant in Bentonville on September 12. The second will be with chef Tyler Scott Rogers of Springdale's Hail Fellow Well Met.
The Preacher’s Son, the downtown Bentonville restaurant located in a restored historic church, has announced that it will welcome Arkansas native Neal Gray as its new executive chef. Current executive chef, Matthew Cooper, is leaving the restaurant in pursuit of a new project with his last service on Sat., Dec. 12.