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Instagram: May 4
Here’s the thing: I really want to go out to eat. I miss it so much. It is part of who I am. But I’m not ready yet.Today many Omaha restaurants are reopening their dining rooms. Some are not. And every diner is thinking about what to do.Read what I’m doing — and what a…
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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…
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Want to be on our takeout only list? Here’s the form.
Editor’s note: After I wrote my column “I’m not ready to return to restaurants,” readers asked for a list of Omaha restaurants that are pausing on reopening their dining rooms starting May 4, but still offering curbside takeout and delivery. If your restaurant is making that choice, we invite you to share your details on…
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Omaha’s two James Beard semifinalist chefs have not advanced
Neither of Omaha’s James Beard-nominated seminfinalist chefs made the cut to the finalist round, which were announced this afternoon on a Twitter live feed. This year, Omaha had two chefs nominated in the Best Chef: Midwest Category. David Utterback runs Yoshitomo and Ben Maides runs Au Courant; both restaurants are in Benson. An Omaha chef has…
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Taste of Omaha is rescheduled for August 2020
This summer’s 23rd annual Taste of Omaha festival has been rescheduled for Aug. 14-16 and will take place in Elmwood Park, near 67th and Pacific Streets. Traditionally, the festival is in May on the downtown Omaha riverfront. The festival is in the process of working with the city and volunteers to pull the festival off…
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Takeout Chronicles Lincoln: Hub Cafe
How to order Hub Cafe makes it simple: order online at www.hubcafelincoln.com and pay by card, or call 402-474-2453 and pay on arrival. The restaurant is located at 250 N. 21st #3, just a hop off the Rock Island Trail. What we got The breakfast bowl, brioche French toast, and four fresh bierocks that we…
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Instagram: April 28
It’s been a hell of a journey with my sourdough starter, Prince Rogers Nelson, and my attempts to bake the kind of bread I love to eat when we’re not living through a global pandemic. If you’d like to read my essay about learning how to bake, the link is right over in my profile.
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Bread in the time of Corona: a tale in three loaves
I’ll take a wild guess that your Instagram feed started getting cluttered with pictures of people’s beautiful loaves of home-baked bread around the same time mine did. It felt like about a month ago, everyone I knew (and a lot of people I don’t know) morphed overnight from regular people I liked to people I…
