Affordable and pleasant, Taxi’s remains a real find in Omaha By Jim Delmont Mac Thompson’s Taxi’s restaurant continues to be a West Omaha neighborhood favorite that combines a bistro approach with a near-suburban watering hole aspect with an upscale restaurant personality that offers ever-changing nightly specials and elegant desserts. The combination is irresistible as a nearly [...]
Read moreHong Kong Cafe carries on traditions, with a mix of new offerings By Jim Delmont Katherine Mah is carrying on at the Hong Kong Café following the death of her chef-husband, Albert, over a year ago. Albert was something of a whiz with flavors, textures and saucing, and Katherine has kept his favorites on the [...]
Read moreBaily’s offers traditional and inventive yummies to start the day By Jim Delmont Greg Lindberg’s breakfast-lunch spot, Bailey’s, is continuing its good business at the corner of 120th and Pacific. Karen Bauermeister manages things and chef Claude Hampton, an early contributor to Lindberg’s and a veteran purveyor of Louisiana classics, oversees once-a-month “dinner after dark” [...]
Read moreLighter, carefully crafter, delicate flavors await at Wave Bistro By Jim Delmont Good news: George and Connie Liao have created an Asian restaurant that does not offer the usual 200 items that almost all Chinese and Asian restaurants in the metro offer. Nor does their attractive restaurant on West Maple Road have the look of most [...]
Read moreSurf and turf remain the best part of Rick’s eclectic menu By Jim Delmont Rick’s Café Boatyard 345 Riverfront Drive 402-345-4545 Open seven days Don’t worry about the Missouri River. Rick’s Cafe Boatyard is doing fine – it has its own 10-foot flood wall and is high and dry, despite that the public riverfront park [...]
Read moreOmaha’s Favorite Shop for America’s Favorite Dessert By Augusta Olsen Ice cream is arguably America’s favorite dessert, surpassing apple pie, chocolate cake and the rest as the most popular sweet treat. A visit to Ted & Wally’s ice cream shop in the Old Market is one of Omaha’s favorite ways to enjoy the delightful dessert. [...]
Read moreCunningham’s offers the best of worlds at its bar and restaurant By Jim Delmont Cunningham’s is a sports bar-cum-restaurant where you can have pub grub on one side and upscale fare on the other – or the reverse. The large sports bar side offers the same menu as the smaller, adjacent restaurant. It’s a dual, [...]
Read moreRyan Gish’s latest endeavor opens at new, buzzworthy Hotel Deco downtown By Jim Delmont Chef Ryan Gish has left Ryan’s Bistro in West Omaha (which remains open), his culinary home for nearly three years, for a new venture in the refurbished downtown Redick Hotel, an art deco building now renamed Hotel Deco. The Zin Room [...]
Read moreRoja is NOT just another Tex-Mex restaurant, plenty of eye candy and dessert By Jim Delmont A new Roja Tex-Mex place has opened in the Old Market in the space that, a few restaurants ago, was occupied by the Garden Café. The new Roja does not occupy all of the huge space Garden Café had, [...]
Read moreFINE DINING ANTHONY’S.. 72nd and F streets. 331-7575. Closed Sunday. One of the old-line steakhouses, big and friendly. A good family spot. Huge menu. BROTHER SEBASTIAN’S STEAKHOUSE AND WINERY. 1350 S. 119th St. 330-0300. Seven days. Not old and not new, this 1980s steakhouse that resembles a California monastery has a great salad bar, romantic [...]
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