Restaurants in Omaha, NE

Once home of the Union Stockyards, where cattle were fattened on their way east, Omaha is best known as a place to eat steak. Yes, indeed, you can find a big, beautifully grilled, high-priced hunk of aged beef (at Johnny’s Cafe, since 1922); but there is so much more to this city, including neighborhood bakeries that specialize in European pastries, classic urban diners and coffee shops — coffee houses, too! — and a super-stylish, very hip place to start the day. That’s the Saddle Creek Breakfast Club. One specialty you’ll find only in Omaha is called a Frenchee or Cheese Frenchee: a grilled cheese sandwich dipped in corn flake batter and fried to a crisp. Hungry pedestrians stroll the multi-block Old Market in town, where the bills of fare include sushi, artisan brownies, organic juices, farm-to-table French cuisine, oysters, bubble tea, and even a cigar bar.

Omaha’s Most Famous Dishes

Cheese Frenchee

Modest square of coffee cake shows veins of cinnamon and judicious streusel top

Coffee Cake

Small, soft rectangular pastry contains pieces of apricot in its center

Kolache

A basket of six hot donuts: plain, powdered sugar, cinnamon

Donuts

Omaha’s Best Restaurants

Joe Tess Place

OMAHA, NE

Don & Millie’s

OMAHA, NE

Strip steak on a plate with onion rings
Johnny’s Cafe

OMAHA, NE

Wheatfields

OMAHA, NE

Biscuits and gravy topped with fried eggs ... stylin' breakfast
Saddle Creek Breakfast Club | Best Stylin’ Breakfast in Omaha

OMAHA, NE

Side view of a slice of Lithuanian torte ... Old-World pastry
Lithuanian Bakery | Old-World Pastry in Omaha

OMAHA, NE

Slice of coconut meringue pie ... Omaha Roadfood at its best
Harold’s Koffee House | Omaha Roadfood At Its Best

OMAHA, NE

Amateur Coffee | Omaha’s Best | Vegan & Gluten-Free

OMAHA, NE

Slice of cherry strudel is topped with white sugar icing.
Olsen Bake Shop

OMAHA, NE

Chicken-fried steak topped with sausage gravy and sunnyside-up eggs ... excellent breakfast
Lisa’s Radial Cafe

OMAHA, NE

Shirley’s Diner

OMAHA, NE

Bohemian Cafe - Jaeger Schnitzel
Bohemian Cafe

OMAHA, NE

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