Business: Umami

  • 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

  • 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…

  • Review: Revisiting Bellevue’s Umami, which is still just great

    Review: Revisiting Bellevue’s Umami, which is still just great

    I really need to get to Bellevue more. I already knew Keen Zheng’s Umami was great (and his story remains one of my favorites I’ve ever written.) If you don’t click through, here’s the short form: Keen worked at New York’s four-star restaurant Sushi Nakazawa, among other spots. But he didn’t want to open his…