Boardwalk Cafe Joins Ozark Mountain Smokehouse

The Boardwalk Cafe, which anchored the U-Ark Bowl building on the west end of Fayetteville’s Dickson Street for more than two decades, is moving four blocks down the street into the building that houses the Ozark Mountain Smokehouse.

The Boardwalk Cafe was opened by Dave and Belva Clark in 1980 at 632 W. Dickson St. The couple still owns and operates the cafe, but instead of treading on the boards that led to the original eatery, diners will enter the rustic, high-ceilinged building at 215 W. Dickson St. to dine on Boardwalk Cafe burgers and sandwiches.

The Boardwalk Cafe will share the kitchen and the dining area with the Smokehouse when the building reopens after renovations in late March. The Smokehouse will continue to serve deli meats and bakery items at the location. The Smokehouse has had a bakery at the site since 1974.

The owners of Sassafras in the Smokehouse, which began operating in the same building as the Smokehouse in April 2000 under a license agreement, left that location Feb. 1 and reopened on College Avenue in a building that previously housed Solemente lo Mejor, a Mexican restaurant. The restaurant has shortened its name to simply Sassafras.

Frank Sharp, who owns Ozark Mountain Smokehouse, has nine Smokehouse stores — eight in Arkansas and one in Tulsa, Okla. The first Ozark Mountain Smokehouse was opened by Sharp’s father, Roy Sharp, in 1946.