Love an old-fashioned country diner where breakfast comes on platters, plate lunches are dependable, and a friendly waitress keeps your coffee topped off at all times? Better plan a visit to The Dinner Bucket, a spot alongside the highway in the Arkansas River Valley that may have the state’s most affordable meals.
Opened in 1985, The Dinner Bucket (also called Debbie’s Dinner Bucket or The Dinner Bucket #2) is simply “The Bucket” around these parts. Located alongside Arkansas Highway 22, it looks like a throwback general store from the road. But when it’s open, the full parking lot tells you everything you need to know.
Inside, pink walls are dressed up with cooking tools and country-kitchen décor above a dining room of simple tables…