Business: Lola’s Cafe

  • The 38 Essential Omaha Restaurants – 2024 Edition

    The 38 Essential Omaha Restaurants – 2024 Edition

    An omakase and yakitori from the city’s first James Beard finalist, prime rib at a century-old steakhouse, the purported inventor of the Reuben sandwich, and more of Omaha’s best meals.

  • The 38 Best Restaurants in Omaha — 2023 edition

    The 38 Best Restaurants in Omaha — 2023 edition

    An omakase and yakitori from the city’s first James Beard finalist, prime rib at a century-old steakhouse, the purported inventor of the Reuben sandwich, and more of Omaha’s best meals

  • Berkshire Hathaway is back. Here’s where to eat.

    Berkshire Hathaway is back. Here’s where to eat.

    It’s been a minute since the Berkshire Hathaway crowd made its way to Omaha, but thousands of shareholders are coming back this week. (I’ve already seen a few strolling around downtown, in fact.) A lot has changed since the last time I put together one of these lists — in fact, I didn’t even have…

  • Four great, recent food experiences

    Four great, recent food experiences

    We really haven’t been going out much lately, but when we have, its been for select, delicious experiences at places we know and love. Hence this week’s post, a little recap of a few dishes I’ve had lately that stuck in my mind and popped out of my photo reel when I was thinking about…

  • The 11 best food experiences I had in 2021

    The 11 best food experiences I had in 2021

    It took me a few hours to shuffle through my iPhone’s camera roll to prepare for this year’s recap, which includes a wide variety of individual dishes, meals, destinations in and outside of Omaha and memorable experiences that together make up the best dining during the last year. I didn’t include any of my own…

  • The 38 Essential Omaha Restaurants

    The 38 Essential Omaha Restaurants

    Where to find farm-to-cone ice cream, Burmese ramen, totchos (tater nachos), and the purported home of the original Reuben

  • Is this the best kale salad in Omaha?

    Is this the best kale salad in Omaha?

    Way back in the olden days — 2012 to be exact — kale was the hottest vegetable in the city. Go to any mid-to-higher end restaurant, and there it was, below seared fish, crisped up as a chip in a bowl of vegetable chips, sautéed into some sort of old-school creamy side dish. It was…

  • Ten New Year’s Eve takeout options to ring in 2021

    Ten New Year’s Eve takeout options to ring in 2021

    How I miss sitting in a basement bar with a cocktail and my friends, or sitting snugly at a back table at La Buvette over beef bourguignon, or in a semicircular booth with friends at V. Mertz in the Old Market passageway. Among the many things 2020 took from me is the chance to ring…

  • Six last minute gifts that support Omaha’s food & beverage scene

    Six last minute gifts that support Omaha’s food & beverage scene

    This year it is more important than ever to keep our dollars in Omaha and shop local this holiday season. It’s also more important than ever to support our local, beloved bars and restaurants, especially if we want to keep them open beyond the pandemic. To that end, here’s six ideas to consider for all…

  • Takeout Chronicles: Lola’s

    Takeout Chronicles: Lola’s

    I only got to check out Lola’s, the newer spot inside the Dundee Theater, once before Covid times started (You can read about it here.) So I knew when I saw they’d started offering weekend takeout boxes, I wanted to bring one home. Lola’s is one of the handful of Omaha restaurants that has, in…