
The Pop-Up Oasis Garden is a small utopian garden on the outskirts of the Old Market. This store really epitomizes the Old Market with its stark trash-core aesthetic mixed with its quickly gentrifying high culture.īest Architectural Features Pop-Up Oasis Garden. You’ll find sections of artisanal cheeses, gluten-free and vegan frozen meals and caviar next to Kool-Aid, all in the same place you can get an order of fried chicken. That may not seem surprising at all, but there are some really interesting stark contrasts within the store. It has all the essentials every gas station shop would have, but it’s also a grocery and a deli. Jackson Street Booksellers has been specializing in selling used, rare, and out-of-print books since 1993.Ĭubby’s is probably the craziest convenience store you’ll ever visit in Omaha. So it really comes as a welcome surprise that one such store is thriving in Omaha’s very own Old Market. Thanks to large online, multi-national booksellers, many local mom and pop bookstores have closed down due to extreme competition. Best Shops Jackson Street Booksellers.Stop by this restaurant if you’re an art aficionado because this restaurant features a monumental sculpture by the late French-American artist Niki de Saint Phalle and works by local Samuel Mercer. You’re allowed to enjoy your meal á la Française.Īnother great French restaurant is Le Bouillon. More importantly, this restaurant does not rush you. This restaurant features the best selection of classic French dining in Omaha, as well as an incredible range of international red and white wines, and even houses a specialty grocery. Photo courtesy Ĭraving some affordable French food in a quaint, European atmosphere? Then La Buvette is the way to go. Best Restaurants and Bars Le Bouillon, with Niki de Saint Phalle sculpture and Samuel Mercer paintings. Keep on reading to find out what makes the Old Market the Old Market. (Plus, do you really want to feel rushed?)

This is a walkable neighborhood and not worth paying a parking meter.

The best advice you can take is to forget your car or park it somewhere free. Now, fine dining restaurants mixed with bars, art galleries, kitschy shops, all make this district a unique cultural center. It might have not existed today, but it survived intact thanks to many concerned locals. It’s almost unthinkable now, but back in the fifties as Omaha expanded westward, this neighborhood was threatened with almost total demolition. Where else can you get a tattoo, attend an inclusive worship service and browse vinyl while sipping a scotch, all within a three-block radius? The Old Market has a reputation for being a touristy neighborhood near downtown Omaha, but there’s much more to this small district.
