All Aboard Grill & Restaurant — Little Rock, Arkansas

I picked this place because my dad loves trains, and it seemed fitting that they deliver your food on one. We stopped for lunch here in January, during a Little Rock stay on our way east.

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The All Aboard Grill & Restaurant in Little Rock!

Seriously, they bring your food out by train, and what is not to love about that? You order at the counter, and then your food rides out of the kitchen on one of the little orange model trains that run along tracks up near the ceiling. There are two tracks with two trains on each track, so the food moves out fairly quickly. When the train gets to your table, a tray comes down a pair of poles right beside you with your lunch sitting on it. The food was good too, which is not always a given at a place with this much going on.

This is the kitchen window where the train picks up its delivery 😋

We got a Shrimp Po’ Boy to split (we always do this when we are out since we never each individually eat an entire meal! Saves on money, and leftover space!). It came piled with fried shrimp on a toasted roll with lettuce, onion and tomato, with a basket of fries next to it, and between the two of us it disappeared pretty fast.

The whole place was loud and filled with kids, which is exactly how it should be. Even if you miss your train coming in, there is plenty to look at, from a big railroad crossing sign on the wall by the kitchen window to a giant photo of a train depot hanging over the booths.

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This lunch was part of our January run east. The small stops we found along the way are in Random Stops from Tennessee, and the Garden just around the corner is the H.U. Lee International Gate and Garden.

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