Ed Walker's Drive-In & Restaurant • 1943

Fort Smith's oldest continuously operating restaurant holds the last curbside beer license in Arkansas—a grandfathered relic from its 1943 liquor permit—but it's the World-Famous French Dip that keeps generations coming back. Slow-cooked roast beef piled on sourdough with au jus has anchored the menu since day one, served in red vinyl booths beneath a ruby-red retro sign. The five-pound Giant Cheeseburger draws curious crowds, but regulars know the French Dip is what made Ed Walker's an Arkansas Food Hall of Fame inductee.