• Instagram: Feb. 9

    Instagram: Feb. 9

    The Aloha Mixed Plate: shoyu chicken, imu braised teriyaki beef, fresh fish, white rice and macaroni salad.

  • Instagram: Feb. 6

    Instagram: Feb. 6

    This week's SBH newsletter: An ode to a neighborhood favorite, Matthew's new favorite cocktail, Dante lasagna night and the latest on Saddle Creek Breakfast Club. Find it at the link in my profile.

  • Saddle Creek Breakfast Club is the news of the week

    Saddle Creek Breakfast Club is the news of the week

    Update: SCBC staff plans to open the restaurant tomorrow, Feb. 7, and Friday, Feb. 14, to serve a limited menu from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saddle Creek Breakfast Club’s announcement earlier this week that it will be closed in February is the talk of the local food world. The restaurant approached the announcement with…

  • Matthew Sez to Drink This: Dante’s “Hazy Shade of Winter”

    Matthew Sez to Drink This: Dante’s “Hazy Shade of Winter”

    Omaha winters suck. They are cold. They are gray. The dirty snow piles up on the dirty curbs. The entire city bundles in scarves and coats and hurries hunched through grocery store parking lots. We silently curse the wind. We silently curse ourselves for not living in !$%^&!^@$8#$ Palm Springs. Or maybe I’m projecting. Anyway,…

  • Wood-fired pizza is headed to Midtown Crossing; Village Inn closes in midtown

    → A pizza restaurant that has locations in Minneapolis, Denver and Ames, Iowa is headed to Omaha. Smokin’ Oak will take over the Midtown Crossing space formerly occupied by Della Costa and Brix. Omaha is listed as “coming soon” on the restaurant’s website. Midtown Crossing’s website reports it will take over the majority of the…

  • SBH Recommends: Dante’s lasagna night

    SBH Recommends: Dante’s lasagna night

    I’ll keep this one short and sweet: Dante’s lasagna is wonderful. It’s a one-night-a-week special, on Thursday, and it’s paired with select half-price wine that evening, too. (You know we took advantage of that.) Dante’s lasagana uses its delicious bolognese sauce folded between several layers of house-made pasta along with bechamel and grated cheese. Honestly.…

  • Our all Bon Appetit Super Bowl Sunday spread

    Our all Bon Appetit Super Bowl Sunday spread

    I love Super Bowl Sunday. For one, my favorite consignment store in Omaha has a Super Bowl Sunday sale and I never miss it. (I didn’t miss it this year, either, in between making several dishes for the afternoon feast.) For another, I like to make any day into a food holiday. Super Bowl Sunday…

  • Instagram: Feb. 3

    Instagram: Feb. 3

    Here’s the rest of my @bonappetitmag Super Bowl spread: @lallimusic turkey and bean chili and @sohlae queso not from a jar (in my favorite vintage Dansk saucepan.)

  • Instagram

    Instagram

    It’s an all @bonappetitmag Super Bowl Sunday at our house starting with the extra corny cornbread muffins from @mollybaz that I made with Nebraska sweet corn frozen from last summer. They smell goooood.

  • Instagram: Feb. 2

    Instagram: Feb. 2

    Just a beautiful whole trout amandine. Who says you can’t get good fish in Omaha? Yeah. Rethink that.