Business: Mercury

  • Mercury adds new food and Forno revamps its happy hour

    Mercury adds new food and Forno revamps its happy hour

    Last weekend Matthew and I stopped by one of our favorite spots, Mercury, to find they’d updated their food menu with some real gems. The highlight of what we tried is the new Dr. Pepper barbecue chicken sandwich: tender, sweet meat stacked deep on an absolutely delicious cornbread and honey biscuit bun. A pile of…

  • Old Man Drinker’s absolute best places to get a cocktail in 2019

    Old Man Drinker’s absolute best places to get a cocktail in 2019

    Hello friends, citizens of the nearly one million person metropolitan area known as Omaha and treasured guests who found this on Google.com after panicking upon remembering they are gonna be with their lame co-workers on an Omaha business trip in 24 hours and have no idea where to drink. It’s Ol’ Man Drinker, risen from…

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  • A simple appetizer and a simple cocktail for the holidays

    A simple appetizer and a simple cocktail for the holidays

    Speaking of cheese, I don’t know what it is, but I love a cheese ball around the holidays. They are simple to make, almost always delicious, appeal to everyone and look great with a side of Ritz. For Thursday, I got assigned an appetizer, and I’ll be making this Gruyere and Thyme Cheese Ball coated with toasted…

  • Mercury’s new menus are wildly creative

    Mercury’s new menus are wildly creative

    Hello! The new menu at Mercury — featuring a new theme, all new cocktails and many new food items — has been on my list of “things to write about” for a few weeks now. Matthew and I checked it out again last night and left wowed with the bar’s seemingly endless creativity when it comes to…