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Add Au Courant’s new brunch to your must-do list
If you looked at social media last Sunday, it felt like everyone who knows anything about food in Omaha ate brunch at Au Courant. Yep, I was there, too. And now it’s my turn to rave. The menu is small but focused, with a handful of entrees and shared plates. Chovie’s Egg, the rotating egg-based…
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Instagram: Jan. 23
You guys know how much I love a good cheese plate, right? I found a new one for you to try, at Lola’s, in Dundee, plus I’ve got a recap of my first Au Courant brunch experience and, as always, openings and closings. Go after it at the link in my profile, or better yet,…
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The new midtown food hall has a name, the end of the road for Ahmad’s (for now) and downtown has a new Green Room
→ There’s a new cocktail spot on 16th Street. The Green Room, at 306 S. 16th St., specializes in “upscale cocktails at dive bar prices.” It’s on the first floor of the Farnam 1600 building on the southeast corner. → The Switch, the new food hall coming to the Blackstone District, announced its official name…
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Review: The delightful little Lola’s, inside the Dundee Theater, is a must-try
Lots of friends told me before I even stepped in the door that Lola’s, the new restaurant inside the Dundee Theater that took over the old Kitchen Table space, is taking a page out of the La Buvette playbook. If you read this site, you know La Buvette is my favorite restaurant in the city…
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Instagram: Jan. 22
I love a good pop-up, and I’ve got one on the blog today. Get it at that link in my profile.
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There’s a weekends only pop-up restaurant inside Lincoln’s Marz Bar
Matthew and I headed down to Lincoln recently for a Nebraska basketball game; though the game was dire, the food situation wasn’t. We decided to skip our regular spots (read more about those here) in favor of something completely new, at least to us. Turns out there’s a weekends-only pop-up, the Webster Bistro, in the…
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We tried the drinks at Herbe Sainte’s new “mocktail Monday”
You all know by now that I’m about halfway through Dry January (January is the longest month ever, right?) Anyhow, a friend sent me the Facebook event about the new Mocktail Monday nights at Herbe Sainte in Aksarben, so we checked it out a couple days ago; this week was the first week for the…
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Instagram: Jan. 16
This week in my newsletter, we sampled all the new zero-proof drinks at Herbe Sainte (and there are some goodies.) Plus a fresh look at Umami, in Bellevue, and several noteworthy new openings coming to West Omaha. It’s all online at sarahbakerhansen.com and at the link in my profile.
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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…