Pizza for a Playground Did you know that every Wednesday, Piezon’s Pizza donates a portion of their proceeds to a community cause? Wednesday, May 22 from 10am until 9pm, Lake Zorinksy’s Inclusive Playground will host a kickoff party. Sponsored by the Non-Profit organization Imagine Inclusion Inc, the event will take place at Piezon’s Pizza on […]
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The Drover Smoked Out
Smoked Steak An early morning fire hit The Drover on Christmas Eve, resulting in fast action from local emergency workers. Fire fighters had the flames extinguished within twenty minutes. The flames originated in an exhaust. Workers evacuated immediately and no injuries were reported. Responders reported that the fire damage was minimal, […]
Farm Fresh Holiday Fare with Farmtable, and Breakfast with Santa
Have a (Meat)Ball! If you need another reason to indulge in Blackstone Meatball’s extensive menu, to skip cooking, or to visit Blackstone for the beautiful lights and people watching, The Reader has just the ticket! On Tuesday, December 18th, The Blackstone Meatball is donating 10% of all sales to Saving […]
Celebrity Chef Event Settles on Star
Celebrity Chef Event Food Bank of the Heartland has signed their 2019 pick for their Annual Celebrity Chef event on Thursday, March 7! Tyler Florence will headline the 18th installment of the yearly fundraiser benefiting the Food Bank. The event will feature cooking demonstrations by Chef Florence, as well as […]
Join Me For Lunch?
Everybody Eats Lunch Now you can step outside of your echo chamber to do it. Omaha, New York, San Francisco, the Washington DC area and Puerto Rico are the test market for this new community art project, launched locally by Christy Chan, Artist in Residence at Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts. The project pairs […]
Lombardo’s Opens This Thursday
Lombardo’s Bistro and Bar A new Italian Bistro is opening near 130th and Maple Thursday. Lombardo’s Bistro and Bar had planned to open this afternoon, but a notice on their website announced that the opening will take place Thursday at the lunch hour. The menu hosts all of your go-to […]
The Long Goodbye
When family owners of the Bohemian Cafe announced in May the restaurant was for sale and would close September 24, it marked another casualty among classic eateries calling it quits. An eventual surge in customers wanting to indulge Czech-German-Polish specialties was expected, but sibling co-owners Terry Kapoun and Marsha Bogatz never expected the deluge would […]
Nick Bartholomew: A Study in Taking it (Over) Easy
A Dream on Fire Having seen the scarred remains of 11th and Howard first hand, I thought for a long time about what I would say to Market House owner Nick Bartholomew when I met him for lunch at his West Omaha eatery, Over Easy. I had decided the tragedy of it all has been […]
Omaha’s Culinary Culture Rises
If you’re an Omaha foodie who believes as many do the local dining out experience has never been better, then you can thank an infusion of original chef-driven and chef-owned eateries for it. Not coincidentally, many of these places are steeped in the locally-sourced, organic, farm-to-table, artisan, and made-from-scratch movements. Classically trained culinary artists […]
Hot stuff: Cup O’ Creativity
“Art & Soup is the VNA’s SIGNATURE event,” said Caryn Hohnholt VP of Fund Development for the Visiting Nurses’ Association (VNA). At this year’s 16th annual Art & Soup, held at the Embassy Suites in La Vista, 20 Omaha-area restaurants competed for the honor of having the best soup. Hohnholt said they pulled out all […]
