Friday 29th March 2024

Less than a month after a fire destroyed the kitchen at the Arrow Rock State Historic Site’s J. Huston Tavern, Missouri State Parks, in conjunction with the Friends of Arrow Rock, will host a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the historic tavern to officially open a summer kitchen at 2 p.m. Friday, June 14.
Missouri State Parks Director Ben Ellis said “It was all-hands-on-deck to reopen the tavern as soon as possible. The Friends of Arrow Rock are doing such a fantastic job operating the tavern, we wanted to provide an alternative so they could continue to operate as we addressed the smoke damage in the historic dining area of the building.”
The Friends of Arrow Rock, which operates the tavern, will be using a mobile kitchen until a new kitchen is constructed. At present, seating for the tavern will be under a 30-by-60-foot carpeted tent, which has been erected on a wooden platform that will serve 80 to 100 guests.
Once the tavern dining rooms have been cleaned of smoke residue and restored, dining will move back into the historic structure later this summer. The mobile kitchen will be used until the new kitchen is open, which is targeted for fall 2020.
For more information, visit J. Huston Tavern’s Facebook page.