Food Focus: Sunday Brunch

by Tamsen Butler

Food Focus: Sunday Brunch

Brunch is about as close to a perfect meal as a meal can get. It’s particularly nice when you don’t wake up early enough for a hearty breakfast, yet still want the option of morning foods while you have lunch. Or maybe you just like having three meals before dinner. Either way, brunch is amazing.

So I wasn’t surprised that when I asked a bunch of people about their favorite brunch spots in the Omaha area, there were plenty of emphatic responses. Apparently everyone loves brunch, and everyone is convinced that they know the best place to go. My response, of course, is to just try all of these places and see which one you like the best.

Grandmother’s

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by Krista O'Malley

The Institute for the Culinary Arts and the MCC Theatre Department are having a joint production of Brunch + Threatre with Escoffier: Master of the Kitchen. On Saturday May 4th, join fellow foodies for a play about the most influential chef of all time. It was adapted and directed by Barbee Davis with a performance by Marty Skomal.  Doors open for brunch at 10:30 a.m. The curtain for the show will be at 12:00 noon. Tickets are $25 and are available through http://www.mccneb.edu/bistro.  The event will be held at the Swanson Conference Center, Metropolitan Community College Fort Omaha Campus. For more information, please contact Colleen cody at 402.457.2321.

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Back to Basics at Baxter’s

by Rachel Grace

I heard mixed reviews from friends who tried Baxter’s shortly after their December 2012 opening. As Benson’s newest pizza place, I had hoped not to hear such things as: “The wait is long,” “It’s expensive,“ and, perhaps the most foreboding warning, “It’s by the slice, but it’s nothing like New York style.”

Happily, I was able to debunk some of these notions.

But let’s back up a moment.

As the second offering from restaurateurs Johanna and Brad Marr along with Scott Stephens, Baxter’s has a tough reputation to live up to. Its sister restaurant, Lot 2, opened just one year earlier a few doors down the street, and was hailed as an instant classic by critics and hungry citizens of...

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by Krista O'Malley

According to the Center for Disease Control's most recent statistics on binge drinking and Trulia's list of cities with the most bars per capita, Business Insider name Omaha, the Most Hungover City, out of 25 other contenders like, Denver CO, San Antonio TX, and New Orleans LA. Omaha was listed at the top based on 8.3 bars per 10,000 households and 19.5% admitting to binge drinking. It has been a long winter. 

BIG day here! BIG! The love of bocce is here and in Omaha with the creation of BIG O BOCCE! It's a recreational bocce league that is now open for registration! Games are played every Tuesday night at Turner Park at Midtown Crossing for six weeks starting May 21. After playing...

Opening Echo Coffee

by Tamsen Butler

Justin Schaffner is very laid back. Have a conversation with him and you’ll undoubtedly hear him say, “Oh, no worries!” at least two or three times because he says that a lot. It’s amazing that he’s so calm considering the past two years have been filled with uncertainty and frustration as he tried to open the doors to his coffee shop.

He remembers when the idea to start a business first came to him; it was during a party where he and his friends joked about getting together to open a coffee shop. What he didn’t know was that one of the people listening in on the conversation just so happened to know a woman who was looking for someone to open a coffee shop in a new building. What...

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by Krista O'Malley

Tickets for the 11th annual Winefest Des Moines are on sale now at winefestdesmoines.com. The festival, presented by Dahl’s, celebrates the wine and culinary industries in Des Moines, Iowa with an entire week of events from June 1st through June 8th, 2013. The Des Moines Wine Festival Foundation has planned eight days of wine-related events for its annual June celebration. This year’s festival includes new events such as Toasting Tuesday, an evening toasting sparkling wines at the Hub Spot Plaza on the Riverwalk, and Bacon & the Bottle, a partnership with Baconfest & Café di Scala.

Join the Dundee Community at Marks Bistro, 4916 Underwood Ave., for a buffet style brunch to benefit...