Omaha Nebraska is home to some of the best Italian/Pizza restaurants. There is a variety of original and handmade Italian food entrees and dishes to be sampled and enjoyed throughout the city at the different restaurants.
Lo Sole Mio Ristorante
Located in 3001 S 32nd Ave, Omaha, NE 68105.
Phone: +1 402-345-5656
Opened August 6, 1992, family owned and operated. Coming from humble beginnings, as high school sweethearts, they married and had six children. Both of them being full blooded Italian, and one of them being born in Italy, they have always had a great love for family and food.
They have both worked in the food industry since they were fourteen. They had a dream, and this is it! Along with the help of their children in the business, various other family members, and now grandchildren working alongside of them, they want to make your experience as pleasant as possible.
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Malara’s Italian Restaurant
Located in 2123 Pierce St, Omaha, NE 68108.
Phone: +1 402-346-8001
Caterina Malara is a native of Italy who came to Omaha from Argentina in the mid-1960s. In 1984, she opened her restaurant as a carryout business in the west end of the former home of Rotella’s Bakery.
Since then, they have expanded 3 times. Today, they offer full-service dining for up to 150, plus carryout, catering, and a party lounge that can accommodate up to 30 guests.
Malara’s Italian Restaurant stands out among local restaurants because it’s owned and operated by 5 women — Mrs. Malara has brought her daughters into the family business.
Caterina Malara, Carmen Rotella, Maria Szablowski, Gracie Benak, and Anna Ruzicka specialize in homemade Italian cuisine that’s made the way their family has made it for generations.
Join them for lunch or dinner today and learn why they have so many regular customers. Their quaint, homey Italian hideaway is worth finding! They look forward to meeting you!
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Mangia Italiana
Located in 6516 Irvington Rd, Omaha, NE 68122
Phone: +1 402-614-0600
Established in 2003, their family’s cooking traditions began four generations ago, when his great grandparents came to America from the Old Country and settled in Omaha’s Little Italy. In 2007, they opened our brick and mortar in Irvington, NE. With my wife, family, and 70+ employees, they are bringing you the Italian and Sicilian traditions that were handed down from Ma and Pa and countless others. They strive to make each and every order that they serve as delicious as their traditions have taught em, just as if they were serving you in their own home! “Eat Italian, Everybody else does!”
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Vincenzo’s Ristorante
Located in 15701 Pacific St, Omaha, NE 68130.
Phone: +1 402-498-3889
Amazing restaurant!, the atmosphere is clean, elegant, and comfortable. The food is delicious and true to the simple, authentic Italian cuisine. But you will be impressed with the good service. Everyone is friendly, helpful and smiling.
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Spezia Omaha
Located in 3125 S 72nd St, Omaha, NE 68124
Phone: +1 402-391-2950
Since opening their doors, Spezia has shared its love of traditional Italian cuisine with their friends and family in the Omaha area.
They invite you to go and enjoy Spezia’s relaxed atmosphere as you choose items from their award-winning menus.
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Nicola’s Italian Wine & Fare
Located in 521 S 13th St, Omaha, NE 68102.
Phone: +1 402-345-8466
Quiet little Italian place right downtown. If you get there early, you’ll probably be fine, but they have very limited seating, so a reservation is recommended. The food is awesome and service excellent. Wine choices are great and not overpriced. The cannoli is a great way to end the night.
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Avoli Osteria
Located in 5013 Underwood Ave, Omaha, NE 68132.
Phone: +1 402-933-7400
Avoli is a Northern Italian restaurant, located in the historic Omaha neighborhood of Dundee. They hope a dining experience at Avoli will remind you of a trip to Italy or help you imagine what eating in Italy would be like. When they began dreaming and planning a new restaurant, they wanted to recreate an authentic Italian experience. They wanted to give diners an opportunity to possibly try something they may not have had before. They felt Omaha needed an Italian restaurant with a modern twist. Avoli’s wine list contains only wines you find in the Northern regions of Italy, the food consists of many local ingredients and what they can’t find locally, they import from Italy.
”Dario and I have lived in different places, Dario is from Sarajevo, Bosnia and I grew up in Kearney, Nebraska. We met in Munich, Germany where we were married. We moved to New York city where we lived for many years until September 11, 2001. We have been in Omaha ever since. We opened our first restaurant, Dario’s Brasserie, in 2006. Dario is a French classically trained chef, he attended the French Culinary Institute in New York.”
They are proud to call Omaha their home and so happy they chose to start their lives over in this community. The city of Omaha is amazing, it’s been extremely supportive and welcoming, they look forward to being here for years to come. They hope you love Avoli as much as they do.
The name Avoli comes from combining their daughters names, Ava & Olivia.
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Biaggi’s Ristorante Italiano
Located in 13655 California St, Omaha, NE 68154.
Phone: +1 402-965-9800
The history of Biaggi’s is rooted in a graduate school business plan of Todd Hovenden’s while enrolled at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management MBA program. That business plan came to life in 1998 when Todd pursued a simple mission: to serve authentic, freshly prepared Italian cuisine in a warm and friendly environment with outstanding service and affordable prices. Biaggi’s opened the first location in Bloomington, IL on March 8, 1999 with construction of the second location in Champaign, IL underway on the same day.
Biaggi’s continues to operate as a privately held company and has expanded considerably since 1999 – now operating nineteen locations in nine states nationwide. Over the years Biaggi’s has been recognized and honored by various media outlets in each of its operating markets.
Biaggi’s is a casual Italian restaurant offering an extensive selection of house-made and imported pastas, soups & salads, pizza, seafood, steaks and desserts. Large portions of affordably priced menu selections are prepared with the freshest ingredients available and served in a comfortable, relaxing atmosphere. They offer an extensive list of affordably priced wines from around the world, including Italy and the United States.
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Orsi’s Italian Bakery & Pizzeria
Located in 621 Pacific St, Omaha, NE 68108
Phone:+1 402-345-3438
Founded in 1919 by World War I veteran Alfonso Orsi, Orsi’s Bakery & Pizzeria is one of the last remaining icons of Omaha’s Little Italy. For decades, their Italian twist bread and hearty Sicilian style pizza has been a staple of Omaha. During the early years, Alfonso and his family worked in the bakery, with the ovens as their sole source of heat.
As the restaurant grew, it became a vivid part of the neighborhood known as Little Italy. In 1949, Alfonso retired and his son Claudio Orsi took over the bakery and ran it until 1987, when his son Robert “Bob” Orsi took ownership.
Ten years later, in 1997, a devastating fire gutted the bakery and destroyed the livelihood of the family. However, the supportive community rallied around the family, helping to clean up the rubble and raise funds so that, several months later, the bakery was rebuilt in the same location.
In 2006, Bob’s son, Bob Orsi Jr., and Jim Hall, along with their wives, bought the bakery from Bob and continued the business of providing fresh Italian bread and pizza pies in Omaha, NE. They made certain improvements to it, including remodeling the interior to feature Italian Deli and Imported Goods areas to sell fine Italian products that are hard to find in the city these days.
In 2010, Bob Orsi Jr. sold his share of the bakery and Jim Hall and his wife, Kathy, became the sole owners, continuing the 92-year-old tradition that has become a lasting icon of the Omaha area.
Orsi’s Bakery & Pizzeria has been delighting people for almost a century and continues to be popular with a new generation that enjoys the taste of history that Orsi’s Bakery provides with its genuine pizza, baked goods and goudarooni in Omaha, NE.
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