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Fantastic food with nice quaint ambiance.
They have a menu that can satisfy most people. It is a really good place for a group of people. The place is pretty small and intimate and if you get the head table by the point of the triangle you have a nice view and nobody around you. If you have a group you can ask for a sampler appetizer tray which lets you try almost everything.
You should definitely work your way down the appetizer list with a group or over multiple visits, most are pretty good - and they sometimes change based on season and/or availability.
I really like their yellowfin tuna - seared and served with a tapenade. Crispy roasted duck is another favorite of mine as is the porcini dusted sea scallops . The menu is varied as they have steaks, seafood, veal, chicken and vegetarian dishes. One of our guests asked the Chef to prepare a vegetarian surprise - and they said it was one of the best dishes he had ever had.
This is the perfect place to go if you want to have a nice, slow-paced dinner with a good bottle of wine. This is one of the few restaurants in Omaha that could hold its own in any major city in America. Should remind everyone though that the Flatiron is relatively expensive $30-$45 entrees.
Service has always been excellent, sometimes consistency in prep of the food is not always up to the high standards that Flatiron is known for though. That said, when people come from out of town and I want to take them to a nice local place, this is at the top of my list.
I really want to like the Flatiron. I want to love it. It's just that they have torched me two more times than Omaha's Best of Yelp should. I enter the hip, tri-sided structure in mouthwatering anticipation of what is to follow, and I depart looking like Wild E. Coyote after that barrel of TNT has exploded in his hands (yet again!).
There was that lunch when I ordered FI's equivalent of a Cobb Salad. No complaints- but for the undercooked (read - raw) chicken festooned across the top. There is a reason you do not see chicken tartar on menus. Cue The Crying Game purge scene!
Then there was the night my wife and I took our friends to dinner. We had the pushiest waiter I have ever met. I did not know if I was taking out a subprime mortgage, buying a used car or dining in Omaha's (alleged) finest eating establishment. In fact, I think I walked out of there with an Option ARM and a "gently-used" 1979 Ford Pinto. The food was fine, but this guy was repulsive. And apparently he has been there for years. You cannot be Omaha's finest when you employ hacks. Thus, began my boycott. The reviews about pushing wine on diners do not surprise me.
I cannot believe that one reviewer claims he can't find a restaurant in San Francisco that he prefers over the Flatiron. Even if I liked the Flatiron, that would be tough to assert. SF is one of the restaurant world's eight wonders. In the immortal words of John McEnroe, "You cannot be serious!" Call me, Robert S. I can get you to the promised land. One star for the snappy building.
Delicate and memorable seafood in Omaha, land of steaks?
Huh?
This is not your run of the mill, fly-over country, predictable meat and potatoes restaurant serving chain restaurant inspired food from a strip mall. No siree Bob! Absolutely not!
This is arguably the best diamond in the rough for restaurants in Omaha. Chef Jennifer Coco, who has been here 12 years, has a very creative menu that has a surprising mix of ingredients and eclectic flavors, many inspired with an Asian fusion touch, with an emphasis on seafood, although they do serve great meat dishes, too.
It is in a downtown location in a v-shaped room in the bottom of a building with windows all around, with ambiance that is very understated, simple elegance that lets you focus on the excellent food in a relaxed environment. Our server, Natasha, was alluring but very professional and knew the menu intimately, offering suggestions throughout. The owners, the Jamrozys have created a great venue for wonderful dining in downtown Omaha.
We started with the Chef's sampler of starters. ($12/person). This was so delicious and well plated. It included:
- A gratin of shiitake mushrooms, blue crab and havarti cheeze in garlic butter.
- portabello mushroom fries with sweet Thai chili sauce
- fresh mozzarella and boursin stuffed wontons, topped with cabernet syrup
- fire roasted beef tenderloin on skewers with lobster bernaise
- hericote verts with arugula in a macadamia seasoned raspberry vinagrette with honey ( full plates as salad)
Main dishes:
Pistachio dusted salmon fillet with crispy brandade cake, puree of cauliflower and almond, with blackberry wine and butter sauce ($30)
Sake marinated sea bass with ginger marinated vinagrette served with lobster and tiger prawn potstickers ($35)
The fish dishes were exquisitely constructed, with suculent, tender fish, well textured with complex but complimentary flavors, served with crisp julienned vegetables of color.
We had a half-bottle of Oregon Willamette Valley Pinot Gris, the crisp fruit flavors matching the main dishes. ($34)
Dessert was a fresh peach and bluebeery crumble crust cobbler topped with vanila bean ice cream. ($7.50). Coffe was good and served in very large cups ($3.50 each)
This restaurant offers upscale east or west coast comparable cuisine, highly creative with great ingredients, served in an unpretentious mid-west elegance.
Excellent choice for Omaha, and a great alternative to the Steaks that have made this rejuvenated meat packing city famous worldwide!
Came here when I was in Omaha two weeks ago with my coworkers/BFF... We had the Portabella mushroom fries with the sweet thai chili sauce to share for an appetizer and for dinner we all had the surf 'n turf... the steak was cooked perfectly "medium rare"... crispy on the outside and tender on the inside... just the way i like it... they had really good wine too.
I ended up spilling the wine on my BFF but they quickly refilled my glass... gotta love that service! The price is pretty high though.. it was ~$400 for the 3 of us... yikes!
The dessert was yummy too.. chocolate cake with ice cream... yums!
Will definitely come back here if I ever come back to Omaha and win at the casino! :)
My first mistake was ordering a glass of red wine before knowing what I wanted for dinner.
Turns out the chefs forte is sea food. I started out with the Gratin of Portabella mushrooms, crab, and cheese. It was rich and pretty good.
My entree was the Miso glazed Sea Bass. That was delicious. The waitress recommended a great French Sauvignon Blanc to go with the Sea Bass.
I finished it up with a freshly made Caramel and Chocolate bread pudding topped with whip cream and berries. Oh, and a cup of coffee.
I should have taken my time to choose what to have. There were so many good choices on the menu. I would have a different starter. They had a Brie and Goat cheese thing that looked good. I should have ordered that.
My only complaint is that the bread was stale. But I'm over it.
I respect them for what they try to do. And if I lived in Omaha I this would be one of my haunts. In a city that is slim pickings it's hard to find a restaurant to that tries to stretch the boundaries.
I enjoyed my meal, maybe my steak was a tad overdone for my taste but overall it was enjoyable.
Overpriced. Poor preparation of food, especially the steaks. Save your money, and go to one of Omaha's great restaurants.
Yep, still fantastic. We started off with a sampler appetizer platter with a little bit of everything. I won't go through the process of re-listing everything we sampled, but it was all finger-licking delishous (assuming this were the kind of restaurant you could eat with and then lick your fingers). The shrimp, the crab, the cheese, the meat...
For dinner, I split the lobster/steak/asiago mashed potatoes/asparagus special with another member of our party and we all had their fantastic cesar salads (with blue cheese and bacon) to start out. No room for dessert [again] because I didn't want to fall asleep during Wicked. :)
Probably the best restaurant in Omaha, although that's hard to quantify and compare all the… Read more »
I think Sarah G. had pity on me for my poor experience at Marks Bistro because she messaged me to tell me I should eat at Flatiron Cafe--in her opinion, the best restaurant in Omaha.
I'm not supposed to eat red meat (I usually allow myself to indulge in red meat once every few weeks), but after my bad steak at Marks, I had to get myself a decent steak.
I got the ribeye and ordered it rare, in case it was a weird Omaha thing to overcook steaks. It came just the way I expected it. It was accompanied by a salad, two mashed potato tower thingies, asparagus (I love you asparagus but I hate how you make my pee smell!), and mushrooms. The mushrooms were served with this amazing sauce. Most importantly, the steak was delicious. I prefer filet mignon over ribeye but I won't complain. :)
The ambiance is a bit conventional; I tend to like restaurants either super-hole-in-the-wallish with lots of "character" or uber-hip-trendy. I guess the conventional ambiance makes this a place you can bring your parents or grandparents to and not feel uncomfortable.
Wait service was okay. Not as super attentive as the folks at the Boiler Room but not bad. They were extremely friendly and not uptight like the waiters at some nice restaurants.
I took my husband there for his birthday dinner.
The food was good I ordered scallops he orded the steak and lobster.
We had a very tacky wine experience though.
1. The waiter offered us 1/2 a bottle of wine from the table next to us that left it behind.
2. He told us that if we didn't take it the staff would just drink it at the end of the night
3. He told us it would look good to the boss if he could get rid of it.
4. He charged us $40 for the 1/2 bottle of wine that someone else had already paid for.
Since it was my husband b-day i didnt make a stink,but can you say TACKY!!! I sure can.
On any other night...that would not have gone over well.
Eh. I just don't know about this one.
The food was *really* tasty, and the wine list was pretty good for Omaha, but there was several significant mis-cues on my visit. First and foremost, the prices. $40 for cioppino? $39 for beef tenderloin? $35 for sea bass? What is this--San Francisco? New York? No, it's Omaha. Easy on the prices, there, cowboy.
Plus, if you're going to charge me $40 for fish stew, and if you're going to offer me a decent wine to go with it, then can you at least serve it in a Riedel glass? Seriously. I'm paying you enough to stock Riedels, but you served me wine in a some thick-bowled thing that felt so heavy it was almost unwieldy. A subtle little touch like nice wine glasses can easily (and significantly) add to or detract from a meal. Yours detract.
There were other mild turn-offs with our server and his service, but I suspect he was not representative of the entire staff.
All that bitching aside, the mushroom fries appetizer was pretty stellar, though. Yu-um.
Bottom line: would I come back here for another special-occasion dinner date in the future? Ummmm.... maybe. The main thing causing me to hesitate is those high prices.
This "cafe" is supposedly the gold standard for Omaha restaurants--the menu reads like fine dining, though. If you're lucky, you'll be seated at the tip of the triangular-shaped room; here you'll have an unparalleled view of the whole place.
The Portobello Mushroom Fries with Sweet Thai Chili Sauce is the best thing you'll eat here. I wish I had the recipe because it's the reason I come to Flatiron. The salads are delicious, but who orders lettuce when they're at a place like this (besides me)?
On my first visit in May 2007, I had the juiciest steak with the tastiest gnocchi. I still fantasize about those potato dumplings some nights--unfortunately, it's no longer on the ever-changing menu. Don't mistake the Filet of Beef with Red Wine & Tarragon Butter, Roasted Heirloom Potatoes on the menu now for it; that's NOT it!
When I came last month for lunch I had the Pan Seared Sea Scallops, Saffron Cream with Sweet Corn Risotto. Although this was good (albeit too salty for my palate), it didn't even compare to the steak and gnocchi combo. This just goes to show that saffron can't turn every dish into an edible orgasm.
Flatiron is a great restaurant for a celebration, but with the extensive, fabulous dining options in this small town, I probably won't be back anytime soon.
Yummy that all I can say. We were so lucky because we were sat at the "tip" of the restaurant which started the night off right. The wine menu is incredible and they are very good at helping pair a good bottle of wine with what everyone is eating.
We started with a sampler of the appetizers. They were all wonderful. there were some sort of breaded Portobello mushrooms that were incredible. We also had a crab, cheese and mushroom dip, tempura shrimp, scallops, and beef skewers. They were all wonderful.
The for dinner everyone tried something else. I had the salmon wrapped in a filo dough based on the recommendation of the waiter. He was correct that the seafood risotto on that it was served with was wonderful, but the fish was overcooked. I'd recommend the procuitto wrapped scallops or the sea bass which were both wonderful.
Dinner was a special treat and I enjoyed every minute there.
My my my, this is the best restaurant in Omaha. Everything is delicious, the menu is unique, and the service is spectacular. I highly recommend....
THE best restaurant in Omaha. After living in San Francisco for 3 years, I'm still hard-pressed to find a restaurant that I enjoy more. The atmosphere, the food, and the unpretentious service all make this a very memorable restaurant. Steve is great too, he really makes you feel at home.
Pricey but worth it. We don't eat here often, maybe once or twice per year but it has always been excellent. The service is great, they have a unique menu and a good wine list.
Definately a place for a special date or anniversary or if someone else is paying! The last time I went there I had an incredible steak, portabella "fries" and a huge bowl of sauteed speciality mushrooms.
A wonderful meal for our party of four (lobster tail, steak, duck, pork tender loin all very good), great wine selections, outstanding ambience and attentive wait staff. This is the place.
April 2008 return: Guiltily enjoyed my seabass (endangered, yes, and the size of a Volkswagen, I understand). Larger party this time so we tried the samplers of appetizers and desserts. Loved the portobello mushroom app and the apple crumble dessert.
What is with this trend of wait staff pushing "featured wines' and actually presenting these bottles unasked for at the table? I can understand it at much less expensive restaurants that are hurting with this economy, but I can't imagine business is down enough at this popular high end restaurant to justify the push for a higher tab...
Went here last night for my birthday dinner - my first date alone with my husband since our daughter was born in December, a treat in its own right.
It's a lovely old building and the service was outstanding, although it slowed down a little towards the end. That may have just been me starting to get antsy because of being away from my daughter for so long for the first time, though.
We were eyeing the sesame crusted portobello fries when our waiter came over to take our appetizer order and recommended them as his favorite. "Outstanding," was his exact word, and they were. Yowza. I got the herb and mozzarella stuffed chicken with fennel artichoke puree, roasted tomato sauce, and pinenut risotto, which was also really excellent. My husband's salmon was melt-in-your-mouth tender as well. Dessert was a scrumptious dark chocolate and raspberry ganache.
Quite pricy by Omaha standards, but for the quality of the food, service, and atmosphere, definitely worth it!
I had really high hopes for this place after everything I'd heard about it over the years. I went only once, for a business lunch, and it was merely "okay." Good but not great. Perhaps it fell victim to unfairly high expectation.
Good food, great wine. I've eaten here several times, mostly for special occasions like Whacking Day, Festivus, and Sales Rep from Company X wants a suggestion to take me out to dinner Day. While it is on the higher end as far as cost, I've never walked out of here thinking I didn't get more than my money's worth. If you're torn about what to order, just go with whatever their special is. I've adopted this strategy with great success.
I recently ate there for the first time. I was shooting for a romantic date at a nice place, and the Flatiron was not a dissapointment. The food was very good, and the service was excellent. I was also very pleased to find Cakebread on the wine list. The owner sent us a complimentary dessert drink. It's easy to drop a chunk of change, so I can't afford to go there often, but I was very impressed, and for a really nice dinner out, I don't know of many places in Omaha that are better.
When I am planning a nice evening out or business dinners this is one of the first places I think of. The atmosphere is stylish without being over the top or stuffy. The quality of food and service never disappoint. This is the type of place you can enjoy spending a couple of hours with business partners who you really don't like. In other words it makes them tolerable. One thing I must point out is that for years I have often had the same server. That says amazing things about this place in itself. If you are wanting to impress someone then start here.
Dinner last night at The Flatiron Cafe was simply fabulous. The atmosphere was perfect-especially our table in the Point, which furnishes greater privacy and was very romantic. Our server (#6) was very knowledgeable about all the menu selections and helped us make our choices. We shared the delicious portobello mushroom fries which were very tasty. We both had the house salad, which was excellent-especially the dressing. I had the Veal Chop (medium) with Boursin, which is served over an awesome risotto. Fresh asparagus accompanied it. All the dessert selections looked great, but we chose the peach and berry crisp (served hot) with vanilla ice cream, which was wonderful. This restaurant is definitely one of the finest in Omaha.
Holy Omaha! I couldn't find St. Marys Avenue and had to call for directions. Anyway, I'm glad I went to the trouble. The restaurant is amazing. Service is extraordinary. Steve was my host and found me the perfect table with a beautiful view of the city. Natasha was my server and helped me to personalize my own meal from the menu. I opted for mixed wild greens salad with cashew vinaigrette. It was delicious. My steak was a beef tenderloin with chimichurri sauce, yuca frites and queso fresco with avocado, roasted corn and tomato, a perfect compliment to the steak. Once again, though, I ordered my steak too rare and had to send it back. Steve immediately refreshed my Cosmo and evened surprised me with a dessert. It was some type of chocolate concoction, served in a chocolate shell and served with fresh blueberries and strawberries. A perfect meal, in a perfect location, in a perfect city!
I tried the Flatiron Cafe last night. Parking was a little tricky, but there was an event at the Orpheum Theater. I strongly advise to make a reservation if going for dinner; it's not a very large restaurant. Restrooms were adequate. The bartender was friendly. The service was Excellent. Our waiter (Lance?) managed to handle other tables, and still time our entire meal perfectly. No waiting, no rushing. We let him pick the wine for our entrees, and they were perfectly paired. We tried the calamari appetizer; it was some of the best I have had in Omaha, yet. Both the Caesar and House salads were excellent. My entree, Sea Scallops with Marscapone Polenta, was wonderful, as well as my companion's Ribeye entree. For dessert, we tried the Bittersweet Chocolate Mousse; it was not too large, thank goodness, and was quite tasty. The coffee was unexciting, but one doesn't come to a place like this for coffee. ;-) Our only issues with the experience were the steak knives, the chairs, and the somewhat gender-biased "date" theme; "the ladies sit here", "the ladies get the dessert", "the men get the check", etc. All in all, I will definitely dine here again - when budget allows.
Had dinner last evening at the Flatiron Cafe before Spamelot. Too bad there aren't 6 stars to rate as it deserves them. We had the table at the point, which is, of course, the best in the house. The proprieter, Steve was so gracious, wait staff #6 was perfect in timing and attentiveness, the crisp white linens, the subdued, elegant ambience, were all the perfect setting for an incredible meal. I had the scallops wrapped in pancetta and pan seared with thin slices of quince in a delicious vinegrette, fresh green beans and polenta. We shared a warm peach and berry dessert with macademia crisp topping and fresh vanilla ice cream. Superbly delicious!
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