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Dana Neely, owner of Girls Gone BBQ in Fayetteville, is a trouper. Marching into the restaurant after a night of frozen pipes and a chimney fire, her voice raspy from smoke, she calls out, “Who’s in charge here?!” Everybody in the kitchen responds almost in unison, “You are!” Welcome to Girls Gone BBQ, the newest joint to grace an already crowded barbecue genre of eatery in Northwest Arkansas, but as the sign says, “…this isn’t yer good ole boys bbq…” and that might just be the understatement of the year.
Hathcock, Broyles, Gearhart, Jane Hunt. In Fayetteville, those names are synonymous with medicine, college athletics at the University of Arkansas, Northwest Arkansas Times and philanthropy, respectively. They’re also the names of some of the families who’ve once made the elegant two-story brick house on Washington Avenue their home.