Main Street Cellar owners Chuck and Deb Olson spent three years saving the old Bella Vita building. The first of its two restaurants is open, with Au Courant's Ben Maides in the kitchen, and the second arrives next month. ELKHORN — For nearly three years, the most...
Omaha loves to talk food. But every now and then, the city talks about something deeper than what opened this week or where to grab dinner tonight. We asked a simple question: If you could bring back one restaurant to Omaha for one more meal, which one would it be?...
A Crawfish Boil in Omaha? Yes, and It’s the Real Deal. The scene says it all at Porky Butts BBQ’s annual crawfish boil, where the table fills with shells, spice, and the kind of messy fun that comes with doing it right. Every spring, something a little unexpected...
Last fall, Joseph Kenney made a point that many restaurant operators may have brushed off as early-stage thinking: Bitcoin could eventually matter to restaurants not as an investment, but as payment infrastructure. Now that idea looks a lot less theoretical. Bitcoin...
For many residents searching for healthy meal prep Omaha, the priority isn’t trend-driven dining — it’s consistency, convenience, and meals that fit real schedules. At Clean Eatz, that balance between structure and accessibility is built directly into the model....
Walk into Porky Butts BBQ in northwest Omaha on any given day and you can smell what matters before you see it. Wood smoke with intention. Ribs that speak for themselves. Brisket that took its sweet time getting here. Behind the line is a pitmaster who understands...
Veteran Omaha Restaurant Consultant on Bitcoin Rails, Cash Flow, and the Future of Payments in Food Service By the Editors at Omaha Food Magazine In Omaha’s food scene, some of the most influential figures aren’t chefs or owners; they’re the quiet strategists behind...
A Mysterious Letter and a Lot Full of Potential A letter, unsigned by destiny but marked by development, has made its way to tenants in the Regency area. In it: details about new construction in the northern parking lot. What it doesn’t include is who or what is...
A Night Where Omaha’s Culinary Scene Meets Community Heart On a warm September evening, the smell of perfectly seared pork, the subtle swirl of Pinot Noir in a glass, and the hum of easy conversation will fill the air at Champions Run. That’s what makes Pinot, Pigs...
I’ve eaten in a lot of places — street-side barbecue pits in Chengdu, cellar taverns in Shanghai, late-night sausage stands in Bavaria. I’ve burned my hands tearing pork shoulder off a spit at sunrise and sipped wine with chefs who barely spoke my language.
Africa on a Plate is the latest restaurant to step into Omaha’s growing African food story, opening soon in the old Panda House space on 16th Street downtown.
At exactly 5 PM, the doors swing open at Terra Gaucha Omaha, and a rush of heat, music, and anticipation spills out onto 138th and Dodge. The restaurant’s grand opening feels more like a parade than a dinner service: a horse clops by the front entrance, a woman draped...