Avoli Osteria on Dundee's Underwood Avenue serves Northern Italian cuisine with house-made pasta and dry-aged Nebraska rib-eye, filling early each service.
Signature: House-made pasta, Dry-aged rib-eye
Order: House-made pasta of the day: dough rolled fresh each morning, shapes rotating with Nebraska farm season.
Herbe Sainte serves Cajun and Creole cooking in Aksarben Village with craft cocktails, locally sourced proteins, and a New Orleans-rooted weekend brunch.
Signature: Bananas foster French toast, Cajun seafood
Order: Bananas foster French toast on Saturday brunch: the kitchen starts early and runs out by early afternoon.
La Casa Pizzaria has been producing Sicilian-style thin rectangular pizzas on Leavenworth Street since 1953, now in its third and fourth family generations.
Signature: Thin rectangular Sicilian pizza, Hamburger pizza
Order: Hamburger pizza: the unusual thin-crust rectangular base, the Patane family recipe since 1953.
Avoli Osteria's Northern Italian dinner in Dundee is built on house-made pastas and dry-aged Nebraska beef, in an intimate room requiring advance booking.
Avoli Osteria on Dundee's Underwood Avenue is a five-night Northern Italian restaurant with hand-rolled pasta and dry-aged rib-eye at accessible prices.
Order: House-made pasta of the day: the kitchen makes fresh dough each morning in small quantities.
Herbe Sainte serves Cajun and Creole cooking in Aksarben Village, with daily happy hour, weekend brunch, and cocktails rooted in New Orleans tradition.
Order: Cajun seafood platter or bananas foster French toast on the weekend brunch service.
Amsterdam Falafel and Kabob in Dundee is Nebraska's best cheap meal, with falafel and kabob wraps at a self-serve topping bar for around $11.
Order: Falafel wrap with toppings from the self-serve bar: the mix-and-match format keeps the queue moving fast.
La Casa Pizzaria has made Sicilian thin rectangular pizza on Leavenworth Street since 1953, the hamburger topping its house signature from the start.
Order: Thin rectangular Sicilian-style pizza: the dough recipe unchanged since Joe Patane opened in 1953.
Dundee Dell on Underwood Avenue has been a Dundee institution since 1934, carrying over 600 whisky labels from Scotland and the US alongside a pub kitchen.
Signature drink: Scotch or American whisky from over 600 bottles behind the bar
Food: Pub food and fish and chips
Amsterdam Falafel and Kabob in Dundee was named the best cheap meal under $15 in Nebraska, with a falafel and kabob counter and a self-serve topping bar.
Try: Falafel and kabob wraps with self-serve toppings
The Omaha Greek Festival at Saints Constantine and Helen Church on Cass Street draws tens of thousands each August for spanakopita, gyros, baklava, and a full programme of Greek folk dancing and wine.
Amsterdam Falafel's Dundee falafel wrap loaded at the self-serve topping bar runs about $10, consistently rated the top cheap eat in Nebraska under $15.
La Casa Pizzaria has been Omaha's pizza reference since 1953, with a single-topping ten-inch pizza under $14 and a crust recipe unchanged in over 70 years.
Herbe Sainte's Blackstone weekend brunch channels New Orleans with shrimp and grits, Cajun eggs, and bananas Foster toast from its evening-focused kitchen.
Dundee Dell on Underwood Avenue carries one of the largest Scotch whisky selections in Nebraska alongside a full Irish pub food menu that runs until 1am, in a wood-paneled room that has been the Dundee neighborhood's anchor bar since 1934.
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