Business: Modern Love Omaha

  • 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

  • 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

  • I’m not ready to return to restaurants

    I’m not ready to return to restaurants

    I miss eating out.  Restaurants have shaped the last decade of my life. Food continues to be a central focus of my work.  Dinner at an Omaha restaurant is my job, my pleasure, a huge chunk of my identity, as big a part of my daily ritual as brushing my teeth, getting dressed and reading…

  • TBH, these are my favorites of 2019

    TBH, these are my favorites of 2019

    I’m doing the annual year-end wrap up a bit differently this year. Instead of focusing on just what I wrote about in 2019 I’m instead focusing on the entire city. (Side note: Click here to see a couple hundred stories I wrote before I left the Omaha World-Herald in 2019.) I came up with fun…