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The Dundee Dell is the tip of the iceberg
Greg Lindberg feels like two years have passed since the beginning of March. He’s reinvented his business model at least a dozen times since then, the unofficial start of the COVID-19 pandemic. None of it mattered for the Dundee Dell, the restaurant he bought in 2016 and that has been a midtown staple for 86…
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Six patios I love, plus a recommendation on taking takeout outside
The summer of 2020 has been the summer where I do exactly none of the things that I enjoy about summer, and that absolutely includes drinking wine on as many restaurant patios as possible. (It also includes the College World Series and the Maha Music Festival, but I probably shouldn’t get started down this path.)…
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Tonight is 100 percent a night you’d generally have found me with a sweating glass of wine and a cheese plate on a patio. Second best option? Takeaway from @lolasomaha on your patio at home. Read my latest takeout chronicle at the link in my bio, and get yourself cheese, meat, wine and lots more…
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Takeout Chronicles: Lola’s
I only got to check out Lola’s, the newer spot inside the Dundee Theater, once before Covid times started (You can read about it here.) So I knew when I saw they’d started offering weekend takeout boxes, I wanted to bring one home. Lola’s is one of the handful of Omaha restaurants that has, in…
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This week's SBH newsletter includes a new review, of @BestBurgerOmaha, in Florence, which lives up to its name. Plus learn about the precautions being put into place before the new Blackstone food hall opens its doors June 22. Find it all, plus the latest updates on our list of local black owned businesses and restaurants,…
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Review: At Best Burger, the goal is simple: tasty burgers at the right price
Universal Allah figured out the focus of his restaurant after a traveler asked him one simple question: “Where can I find the best burger in Omaha?” He set out to make it. At Best Burger, in Florence, Allah and his partner, Ashlei Spivey, serve grass-fed black angus beef patties on brioche buns topped with all…
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The new Blackstone food hall will open with precautions June 22
The Switch, the new food hall in the Blackstone District, is one of the more anticipated openings since the beginning of the pandemic. The hall, which will open June 22, has precautions in place to make dining in (or taking out) safe. General manager Miranda McQuillan said the hall and its large outdoor patio will…
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I’m doing what I can to help lift up Omaha’s black restaurant owners. Please share this to your story so we can get as many black Omaha entrepreneurs to get their business on this list. Then join me in eating at their restaurants. The link to the list and the form is in my profile…
