At the Corner restaurant at Scott and Markham streets will celebrate Mardi Gras with its first “Fat Tuesday Beer Dinner,” featuring brews from Lost Forty, from 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 28.

The menu will be five courses, kicking off with Red Beans and Rice Arkancini with a Barebones Pilsner. Next up: Dirty Delta Gumbo and Honey Bock Cornbread paired with Forest Queen Milk Stout. The second course is gulf shrimp and creole grit cakes paired with Pale Ale, and the main course is King Cake pancakes and Bourbon Street fried chicken paired with Creole Country Bock. Beignets and Grapefruit Rockhound IPA wrap up the meal.

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Cost is $70, and includes dinner, tax, gratuity and “Mardi Gras swag.” Reserve at centralarkansastickets.com.

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