Skylark Cafe

06/06/2026

Rainy days are their own brand of magic around here.
We’re grateful for it☔️

Death by chocolate cheesecake.
That could be the whole post but I’ll elaborate:
Chocolate cheesecake with chocolate fudge, brownie crust, chocolate ganache and chocolate sprinkles😭💀
Chocolate mousse cake
Cookies & cream cake
Caramel cake
The oven is full of fresh pies but ya’ll wiped us out yesterday so they’ll be landing around noon. I’ll even make a meringue in this rainy day because I love a hard time.

Blueberry bacon grilled cheeses for lunch- Neighbor’s Mill sourdough with Gruyère, provolone, bacon, grilled onion & jalapeno and blueberry jalapeno jam

Ribeye’s on the grill for dinner along with the Bleuberry bacon burger with pommes frites.
The burgers are so good it hurts ya’ll.

We finally restocked hummus and my pepper bed put out enough shish*tos to throw on the plates. I’ve got some leftover tzatziki too so if you ask nice we could throw a little side on there- it’s my actual favorite.

It’s a good day. Come eat.

Kitchen til 9
Dinner after 5
Shop til 7

06/05/2026

There isn’t anything that boosts kitchen morale like having fresh blueberries to snack on AND Gruyère back in house.

I made blueberry jalapeño jam that’s still reducing on the stove so we’re doing all the blueberry things this weekend with local berries from the Reeve’s.

Lunch special:
Blueberry jalapeño grilled cheese with Gruyère and provolone, crispy bacon, grilled onions & jalapeños and blueberry jalapeño jam on neighbors mill sourdough- we’ll serve it with a cup of cheesy potato & bacon soup.

Dinner is flame grilled ribeye’s with homemade steak sauce, mashed potatoes, sautéed green beans, house salad & roll

Bleuberry bacon burgers with local beef from triple R ranch, Gorgonzola, bacon, grilled onions & jalapeños, mixed greens and blueberry jalapeño jam on a brioche bun with a side of pommes frites and garlic aioli.

Desserts are everywhere, call for the details.

Dinner after 5
Shop til 7
Kitchen til 9

❤️❤️❤️❤️

06/04/2026

Have I ever told you that June is my favorite month in the Ozarks?
It is in June but in October I change my mind😅

The river is perfect, the gardens are growing- it isn’t unbearably hot yet.
Life is good in June, okay.

Swing by and see us on your summer adventures.
We’re doing steak or chicken gyros with fresh tzatziki, cucumber salad & dolmas as the lunch special.

The first of the local blueberries are in from The Reeve’s!
We’ll put some on the kids plates and in pie but I’m turning the rest into blueberry jalapeño jam to go with the burger this weekend.

We all talk about the bleuberry bacon burger like it’s a legend and I guess it low key is.
Local beef from triple R ranch, gorgonzola, bacon, grilled onions & jalapeños, mixed greens and just a dollop of garlic aioli.
We serve it on a brioche bun with a side of pommes frites and it’s honestly the best burger me and all my pal’s have had.

That’ll be for dinner Friday & Saturday night along with the flame grilled ribeye’s so if you don’t have weekend plans, go ahead and make them.

We’re filling up the dessert case and stocking all the things.
The shop is filled with summer goodness in the form of beautiful books, kitchen ware, clean skin and sun care, river towels, bags, hats and sunglasses and the kids section is absolutely full of goodness for your littles.

Come see us at the cafe & shop til 3 today
🫐🌻❤️☀️

06/02/2026

Looks like a very beautiful day-
Come see us, not sure there’s a nicer way to spend a Tuesday than eating here and then going to find a river bank☀️❤️

French vanilla blueberry cake
Chocolate peanut butter cheesecake with brownie crust
Mississippi mud cake
Oven full of pies
Oatmeal cream pies are working too.

See ya here and at the shop til 3pm

05/31/2026

Thank you Kevin for spotlighting Leslie and so many great restaurants around our state🥰
We appreciate you!

If you’re heading to branson this summer, you might want to make room for a delicious pit stop along the way. Skylark café in arkansas has built a big reputation for homemade comfort food, fr…

05/30/2026

Happy Saturday❤️
We’re doing a Parmesan & cracked pepper crusted Italian grilled cheese with tomato basil soup for lunch
Ribeye’s and chicken fettuccine Alfredo for dinner.
The oven is full and the dessert case is packed.
This white chocolate mixed berry cheesecake though🥹

We cook til 9 on the weekends
Little hill shop til 7
Dinner specials after 5

See you here!

05/30/2026

I hope y’all are proud of me that I survived another strawberry season.
It was touch and go a few times.
The math is back and we sold 2,256 slices of strawberry pie and used over 752lbs of strawberries🥵

We’re already getting lots of distress from y’all on our first weekend without it and here’s the thing- up until 2020 we never used local strawberries for the pie. We used store berries and they worked fine.

The difference of the strawberry pie with fresh local berries vs store berries is undeniable.
I’ll never say never but for now I need a break and with all the information coming out about Driscoll’s I’m just not anxious to support them.

Big shout out to Wade Lucas Farms for supplying us with all the beautiful berries we could handle right to our door weekly- the actual biggest blessing, and Gageli Farms for saving the day with morning of deliveries a few times as well!

Some things are best seasonal.
I’m not saying we won’t have strawberry pie again this year, because if I happen on some good berries- I do love ya’ll and will whip a few out. But for now let’s give me and the strawberry pies a break❤️🍓

05/29/2026

Let’s have another quick post on AG because I have been getting so many comments and questions so I want to clarify some details:

* “Hucks Menu” is AG friendly but is not “safe” I will not call anything that comes from our kitchen completely safe because we use mammal products heavily.
We can be very careful- but we cannot absolutely guarantee that your food will not come in contact with mammal products.

*Everything on the AG menu is free of mammal products including carrageenan.
This includes the sourdough, tortillas and turkey.

*We steam the grill, use olive oil, wash our utensils and pull a fresh cutting board for AGS menu items but we are not cooking them on a separate surface- this is NOT safe for everyone with AGS but it is safe for some and it is what we can do.

*Our goal with this is NOT to market to the AG community- we are not trying to bring in more customers, we are trying to better serve our existing guests with an allergy that is increasingly common

*If you have life threatening reactions to any food I would not recommend you eat here. This applies to AGS, Dairy, Gluten and Nuts. We can be very careful but we cannot offer any guarantees

*The AG menu is for alpha gal and dairy free customers only.
Offering this menu requires separate cooking oil, procedures, time and space which we cannot realistically offer for every guest who does not actually have allergies.
Because of this items from this menu may take longer to prepare.

*Restaurant posts and menus are absolutely not the place to recommend doctors or offer medical advice. I greatly appreciate everyone’s concern and realize that this is a very sensitive subject but everyone’s health is extremely personal and we would never want to play a part in someone’s suffering even inadvertently.

More thoughts or questions?
Let’s talk about it in the comments.

05/29/2026

Happy Friday!

I forgot to order literally anything to make burgers with so we’re doing chicken fettuccine Alfredo as the second special🤷🏻‍♀️

Ribeye’s for the grill with all the fixin’s-
Dessert stacked everywhere.

Kitchen til 9
Shop til 7
Dinner after 5

❤️❤️❤️❤️

05/28/2026

Strawberry shortcake cheesecake-
Strawberry cheesecake with a vanilla sponge cake inside, fresh strawberries and homemade whipped cream

Salted caramel cake that smells so good I had to have a minute🤤

I’m making oatmeal cream pies and a fresh slew of oven pies to let you know gently that the strawberry pie that’s in the cooler is the end of it for the season.
Don’t cry because it’s over- smile because it happened😅

We’re finishing up the salmon salad today and we restocked on local beef from triple R ranch so we’re leaning pretty hard on doing the blueberry bacon burger with pommes frites for dinner this weekend with the ribeyes…Cross your fingers.

The shop is overflowing with goodness especially our kid section and book selection- but retail spending is so down. I get it.
Please don’t forget small shops and local businesses even when times are tough. Shopping local for your gifts and little luxuries is so important for communities💖