3 reasons to book a tour with Omaha Culinary Tours

Editor’s Note: Piccolo’s is closed. But, the food truck is active.

Omaha Culinary Tours
Gorat’s is one of the steakhouses on the Classic Steakhouse Tour

We’ve been on several tours with Omaha Culinary Tours.  At first, I thought, OK, check out some restaurants that we haven’t been to before and have some food. Well, an experience with Omaha Culinary Tours is much more than that.

Learn Omaha History

Omaha Culinary Tour has tours that cover most of the city of Omaha. One tour may take you past one of Warren Buffett’s offices and introduce you to an Omaha original – the Reuben sandwich.

Omaha Culinary Tours
Crescent Moon Reuben

Another tour may take you to where a few scenes from a movie were filmed and to a couple of Buffet’s favorite steakhouses.

Omaha Culinary Tours
About Schmidt was filmed at Johnny’s Cafe

There is also history told along the way of some of the buildings and characters that have turned Omaha into what it is today. This is told by the tour guides, as well as the passionate owners and chefs of the restaurants that are on the various tours.

Omaha Culinary Tours
V. Mertz is located in the Passageway Gallery in the Old Market

Have a Great Time with Friends and Family

Going on a tour with Omaha Culinary Tours is a great option for a date or getting family or friends together for a fun experience. It’s an event you don’t have to get a meal afterwards as you will not go away hungry.

I recently connected with a few North Iowa bloggers to go on her first Omaha Classic Steakhouse tour. Tim went on the same tour months earlier with our daughters.  We both agreed that it’s great to share the experience to indulge and compare our favorites with friends or family while on the tour.

Omaha Culinary Tours
North Iowa Bloggers enjoyed the Steakhouse Tour

We’ve met new friends while on the Omaha Culinary Tours. We are still friends with someone we met on our very first tour, the Midtown Walking Tour.

Omaha Culinary Tours
Group photo on Midtown Tour

We had a feeling once we introduced my Aunt Vicki and Uncle Bryan to one of Omaha Culinary Tours they would want to go on another. We were right. They are asking when we are interested in going on the next one.

Omaha Culinary Tours
Uncle Bryan taunts Tim with a mushroom.

Check out Omaha’s growing culinary scene

Omaha has culinary delights that span from the south in Little Italy for steak to the north in Benson for a slice of pizza to west Omaha for a little cotton candy for dessert.

Omaha Culinary Tours
Cotton Candy after every meal at Salt 88

While the Slice of Pizza Tour may take you from the northern neighborhood of Benson to a destination for Neapolitan-style pizza in West Omaha.

Omaha Culinary Tours
Dante’s Neopolitan Pizza

One restaurant on the steakhouse tour – Piccolo’s – has jumped into one of the growing food trends in Omaha.  They’ve launched their own food truck, named Anthony Piccolo’s Mobile Venue. Let’s just say that I’ve hunted it down to get one of their Prime Dip sandwiches with tator tots.  It’s that good.  Make sure you dip the tator tots in the au jus.

Omaha Culinary Tours
Prime Rib in Au Jus with a side of tator tots at Piccolos

While you may think since we’ve lived in Omaha for a long time, why haven’t we tried most of the restaurants on these tours already? We would not blame you for thinking that.   We’ve been on four of them personally (our daughters went on the chocolate and pastry bus tour, but we have’nt been yet).  However, on each one of them we have found that there are at least 2-3 restaurants that we had not been to before.

Omaha Culinary Tours
Trying oysters at Plank Seafood in the Old Market

So, whether you’re visiting Omaha for the first time or have lived here for awhile, check out trying new dining experiences in one shot and learn some local history with Omaha Culinary Tours.

For more information on current tours and upcoming ones, check out their site at Omaha Culinary Tours.

Disclosure: We have received several complimentary tours from Omaha Culinary Tours,. However, all opinions and views are ours.