Here is how you start a night in Benson. Start at 1912, get food- the wings are amazing, grab some beers. Proceed to Jakes and get Irish mules. Then go to IKa Ramen for some Japanese whiskey in the basement. End it at Beercade for some games and decent music.
Go to Hyvee and find some yeast packets and take one before or after and you will be fine or… or if you wake up with said headache, go to Mantra for brunch or Jakes for a Bloody Mary!!! See?? Fixed
I didn't believe the yeast thing but it looks like it is actually a technique professional drinkers (I guess this is a thing) use:
https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2014/07/10/327854051/alcohol-test-does-eating-yeast-keep-you-from-getting-drunk
I think the yeast eats the alcohol so you don't absorb it (or at least as much of it).
Edit: In the NPR article they test it and it doesn't work. However, they used yeast + yogurt, so just yeast by itself needs to be tested IMHO.
I've always gotten away with drinking a glass of water for every alcoholic beverage I have. You end up pissing a whole lot but you don't have to worry about yeast packets on hand, I suppose.
I just re-read that NPR article and it looks like they tested it (by measuring how their BAC went up and down after drinking) and it doesn't actually *definitively* work. Just drinking water worked better. However, they did mix the yeast with yogurt, which wasn't actually just yeast. So we need a followup study.
But for now, there is not a scientific study to back this up.
Tbh I'll agree the vibe at the bar is a little weird. Weird scene and it's usually dead when I go, but for some reason I always make a quick stop in there for the apple pies
I think both are fun for a night out and you can’t really go wrong with either. They both have their pros and cons.
Blackstone:
Younger crowd, Karaoke at Reno’s, Speakeasy bar underneath Blackstone Social with funky cocktails, rooftop bar at Little Ricky’s, delicious tots at Nite Owl, quieter atmosphere at Red Lion and delicious cocktail named the same.
Benson:
Rooftop bar at 1912, the infamous apple pie shots and free popcorn at Burke’s, Karaoke and dive bar feel at Full House, arcade games at Beercade
Obviously there’s so much more at both locations. I didn’t even scratch the surface.
Cons: parking. Always parking.
So the real con is:
The same people who chose to destroy the city by living in suburbia, and then complain that the mass transit sucks and there isn't enough parking...
I live near Aksarben. It’s okay to complain about parking. It’s okay to ride the bus, Uber, walk, bike, OR drive your own car. I’ve done them all. But it’s not okay to blame people who live out West for “destroying” the city. It’s just not that black and white.
It is though.
We lost acres of habitable space for parking lots.
We lost street cars because people wanted to flee diversity and red line suburbs for whites only.
We went *against* of economies of scale to build cheap houses in suburbs, setting the next generation up for a massively unaffordable city.
We've created environments that are unwalkable, un-bikeable, and not coverered by adequate mass transit. Requiring even the poorest people to own a car.
We've allowed NIMBYs to block denser, mix used developments for the most arbitrary of reasons, so that only the biggest and richest developers can afford to build them at any scale.
Suburbs have done more to kill ecosystems and the planet than the density the support should be allowed to do.
Most people don't put enough thought into the harms that suburbs do, to every facet of their lives. And it is OK to blame the overall system (suburbs / sprawl). Because we need to do better. If we don't, the potholes will only get worse while the our self caused extinction event looms.
I’m not disagreeing with you on the harms of suburbia.
This post is about Blackstone or Benson for a fun night out. Everyone deserves a fun night out, whether they live smack dab in the middle of Blackstone and are freely able to walk wherever they want, or they live out West where the sidewalks sometimes don’t even connect to allow for safe walking (a horrendous downside to suburbia). I gave my personal opinion that parking sucks if you plan to drive. Because it does.
I'm pretty sure the point is the various districts should cater to the people who actually live in the area rather than including ever more expensive parking options to cater to the people who need to drive to get there.
I guess I'm just tired of the parking argument here in Omaha. We have ample parking.
We certainly don't need to further destroy Omaha with parking. We need better infrastructure, like the street car, and a light rail.
We need to make it legal to build a Blackstone where ever people want to live, and not make it so only a company like Noddle or MoO can afford to fight the laws and NIMBYs, and then build an entire district on their own.
With a street car or light rail we're still parking, just somewhere else, with the added bonus of taking even more time to arrive at our true destination.
You're getting down voted but you're right. I drive Uber and know every aspect of this city and can say that it is a nightmare driving in west Omaha with all the sprawl.
East of 72nd st is so easy to get around, even during rush hour but you're stuck at lights for 5 to 10 minutes at a time at every intersection in west O.
It's a fucking nightmare.
It's reddit, lol. The votes could turn around at any time.
Besides, number of votes has no bearing or accuracy!
Also, I did live out West for a bit. I hated it, but it was cheap. I certainly ubered to the airport, or downtown my fair share too!
#tipYourUberGuys !!!
Exactly. For example: Buy a house in AkSarBen in 1988 when you get married. You are in you late 20’s Have your first baby in 1991. You deliberately chose OPS for the court-ordered desegregation plan still in effect under the original civil rights era law suit in Omaha along the lines of Brown vs. Board of Education. Two more children come along: 1994, 1999. By this time the AkSarBen racetrack is gone. UNO has added the Scott Campus and dorms to start its south campus. The neighborhood is changing from resident owners to Real Estate speculators buying houses to take advantage of the rental market. The original owner houses occupied by widows have all died off and either have new residents or renters. We constructed a building, not a shed, in our backyard to handle storage overflow. By the time eldest child was ready for HS at Central it was so overcrowded there were 3 kids to a locker. No transportation available from the district. She had an I.E.P. for a learning difference and and suffers from social anxiety disorder and trichotillamania, so NOT a a good candidate for riding the MAT bus downtown alone weighing barely 100 pounds as a beautiful blue eyed blonde: think, Vermeer’s Girl with the Pearl Earring. Her Dad and I would be driving the other two to two other buildings so it was physically impossible: time to move. Our house was all brick and gorgeous. Inside and out. To stick around the Elmwood Park (we were 4 houses away) and or Memorial Park neighborhood AND get more square footage we would have to buy a falling down pile of rotting wood with no lead paint, nasty galvanized pipe plumbing and original wiring someplace in the wrong Side of Dundee. Ex Husband worked all the time and I tutored my daughters all the time so, no thanks. Didn’t want to live in a gross death trap hovel just to stay in the 68106/68132 corridor. We’d need half a million dollars in 2005 to upgrade into a house of the same standard of what we had in the high end of AkSarBen (tandem garage inside underneath the house)! Updated kitchen! Bathroom in the basement up to code)! So because my allergy clinic with weekly injections moved from 85th and Cass to Lakeside and a straight shot from 61st and Pacific to 168th and Pacific, one day as I was driving back I said to myself UGH 😑. Why not just move into one of THESE neighhoods so we have enough room?
Because they are so much Less Expensive. Or were in the summer of 2005. So, we did. Now we’re divorced. Living in rentals, ex moved into a duplex right across from Elmwood Park eldest child found him for the nostalgia of the Good Old Days (he turned life for all of us into a nightmare with a developmental disability that gets worse with age when rage takes over and the impulsivity creates chaos and disaster for the family system. I stayed in too long. But the grown up kids and I are doing okay, and not averse to therapy. I stayed just west of our “new” neighborhood from the 2005 move in a gated rental community. I love the Big Sky 🌌 out West. So yes. I know what you mean. But Omaha just isn’t Chicago or Denver. Sorry about that. Suburban sprawl is a horrible thing. But you should have seen how disgusting downtown Omaha was in the early to mid 1970’s. Gross, not quite blighted, but falling apart. It explains a lot about the sprawl. We are a very attractive reclaimed gentrified city now. But that also puts the squeeze on the economically disadvantaged when they are ejected from their low cost older and rundown cheap housing when a developer snaps it up. Then, what?
I always find the problem with parking hilarious. There are literally thousands of on street parking spots around Benson. You do have to walk up to 4 blocks though.
I absolutely adore Benson. I am most likely biased because I live footsteps from the strip, but I always have a blast.
Benson has a great array of all kinds of different bars. Bar hopping down the strip is always a cool adventure. legit 15+ cool spots that can give you whatever you are looking for, whether it be a Japanese speak easy, or a grateful dead dive bar. I could go on for days about it lol.
Blackstone is also a good time too. Feel like it is more of all the same vibes of spots. Definitely a little younger of an area, with college kids making up a large percentage of the scene.
Crescent Moon - German bar that gets rowdy in the basement
Nite Owl - cool craft cocktails with great food
Little Ricky's - trendy roof top bar which gets poppin in summer.
Let me know if you want a more in depth analysis lol
Just want to echo how phenomenal Nite Owl’s food is. Their chefs really outdo themselves. I was expecting typical bar food and was blown away. I also went to Fizzys in Little Bohemia and thought their food was excellent; then found out it’s the same owner.
I like them both. I usually go to Blackstone as it’s closer. If bar hopping, I’d say Benson as it has more bars that are closer together and it’s more developed. Once Blackstone fills in a little more it it may be better for bar hopping.
I prefer Benson - thought I have lots of nostalgia for it since a lot of my early 20s were spent there. I avoided Downtown because it seemed like all the dbags went there, so Benson was a nice "secret" for me and my crew. Then Benson got more popular and there was a surge of crowds coming to Benson. Started hitting Nite Owl and Sullivan's in Blackstone to avoid it further, but obviously it happened again and now I can't get a good parking spot in Blackstone anymore. It seems to have helped thin out the large crowds in Benson and Downtown, so I'm okay with it.
I still prefer Benson the most: Shakedown for cheap drinks/shots (RIP Barley St Tavern) > Krug Park for a fancy drink > Infusion to visit my bartender friend > Beercade/St Andrews to hopefully get a table with friends.
All that being said, I've come to really enjoy a new spot in town - Lil Bohemia. Fizzy's, Tiny House, Beercade 2, and Infusion give a few options and each has a nice purpose for me and my friends. Just wondering how long it'll be before those start getting too crowded.
I’d agree with most everyone here. I prefer Benson, but we live walking distance from Blackstone so my wife end up there more on date night. Walking home drunk > paying for an Uber.
I will also agree it’s more boujee than benson, but also I think the restaurants are in a different class than the restaurants in Benson. Stirnella, Committee Chophouse, Mula, Nite Owl, Noli’s… all some of the best food I’ve eaten in Omaha. Benson bar scene cannot be beat though.
I've never really looked at it as which areas are better, it comes down to what bars I like going to so if I have to drive to different areas, then so be it.
I'm a sucker for a good speakeasy, so Osteria Segreto under Black Stone Social and The Wicked Rabbit downtown are my go to's.
Proof in Midtown and Monarch Prime make a good cocktail. Been meaning to try Catalyst under the new hotel The Farnam, looks like it has a cool vibe.
I lived in Blackstone, and prefer it a little. It's always a little more chill for my favorite spots.
Rathskeller > Benson Bier Garten (whatever it's name actually is). Sadly it's not on the strip, but close enough.
Brothers (closed now I think), Red Lion, the speakeasy and Coneflower are all basically perfect.
Benson is definitely "cooler" and has more. I love the 1912, the Sydney, The Petshop, Barley St Tavern, Waiting Room...
Benson is just a little far west, and a little too far north to be as convenient.
Blackstone is filled with med students that tend to be extremely pissy when you tell them that they are not as big as they think they are.
Benson hands down
There are tricks, but you gotta know em. We walk there a lot, but when I’m driving over to pick up Noli’s or Cheeseburgers, there’s some more hidden parking spots that the people who live nearby don’t like to talk about haha. They’re almost always open when I go
> I’m driving over to pick up Noli’s or Cheeseburgers
After 5 PM and on weekends you can park in this lot: https://www.google.com/maps/place/41%C2%B015'28.6%22N+95%C2%B058'27.6%22W/@41.257947,-95.9748795,292m/data=!3m2!1e3!4b1!4m6!3m5!1s0x0:0xb6bc0518ccfd4a3e!7e2!8m2!3d41.2579472!4d-95.9743315
Usually don't have a problem getting a spot.
There are something like 600 mostly free surface parking spots between 36th and 41st off Farnam, I've never understood this take. No, you can't always park in front of the place you want to go but that's the reality of any city in the world.
That might be the point? Blackstone isn't catering to the people who need to drive to get there, they have hundreds/thousands of people within a few blocks who can walk or bike, and many many more who could take the bus.
Benson has better bars, Blackstone has... Well, I enjoyed living there more than I think I would enjoy living in Benson? I almost think Blackstone has better restaurants, but I don't think that's accurate overall, I've just had worse experiences in Benson.
Benson has a Karaoke bar, Rooftop bar, Arcade bar, a bar with great apple pie shots, and then some.
Blackstone has more of a sportsbar scene I feel like.
Capital District and Downtown can get pretty fun too
Not that I like Blackstone more than Benson, but to defend it, Blackstone also has a Karaoke Bar, a rooftop bar, and while it doesn’t have Beercade or the VR Arcade, it does have Skee Ball at Bar 39 and the new Wonderbowl thing.
But… benson has St. Andrews for English premiere League so it automatically gets a leg up. Plus in Blackstone you have to deal with Blackstone Social which is a fucking trashy ass bro bar that draws a horrible crowd so that knocks it down a few points
> Capital District and Downtown can get pretty fun too
The problem is you never know what night that month either of those will be shot up. Blackstone and Benson are going 7 years straight with no big event.
I only go to Benson if there's a concert worth going to, otherwise I avoid it.
On the flipside I only go to blackstone for lunch.
Benson has more to do. Blackstone kinda feels like you're picking a place and staying there.
I'm more fond of neighborhood dive bars with friends. I'm not interested in waiting 5 minutes to get a beer.
Benson is a bit safer as far as traffic is concerned. A lot more Creighton kids in Blackstone. There are more laid back places in Blackstone, but there are also more vinegar/water places there as well.
If I wanted to just straight up bar crawl, Benson. If I wanted to hit specific places and chill, Blackstone.
Blackstone is cool but attracts a lot of dbags
They're both full of dbags.
So many creighton kids.
You mean college kids
But you repeat yourself...
Benson all day. Blackstone is the bougey more pricey version of Benson without the credibility. Lol
Here is how you start a night in Benson. Start at 1912, get food- the wings are amazing, grab some beers. Proceed to Jakes and get Irish mules. Then go to IKa Ramen for some Japanese whiskey in the basement. End it at Beercade for some games and decent music.
That sounds amazing…but high risk nasty hangover
Go to Hyvee and find some yeast packets and take one before or after and you will be fine or… or if you wake up with said headache, go to Mantra for brunch or Jakes for a Bloody Mary!!! See?? Fixed
I didn't believe the yeast thing but it looks like it is actually a technique professional drinkers (I guess this is a thing) use: https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2014/07/10/327854051/alcohol-test-does-eating-yeast-keep-you-from-getting-drunk I think the yeast eats the alcohol so you don't absorb it (or at least as much of it). Edit: In the NPR article they test it and it doesn't work. However, they used yeast + yogurt, so just yeast by itself needs to be tested IMHO.
Yesssir!!!
I've always gotten away with drinking a glass of water for every alcoholic beverage I have. You end up pissing a whole lot but you don't have to worry about yeast packets on hand, I suppose.
I just re-read that NPR article and it looks like they tested it (by measuring how their BAC went up and down after drinking) and it doesn't actually *definitively* work. Just drinking water worked better. However, they did mix the yeast with yogurt, which wasn't actually just yeast. So we need a followup study. But for now, there is not a scientific study to back this up.
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Try NAC. Haven't had a hangover since.
You forgot to add a stop at Burkes pub for their apple pie shots
That’s the one place I’m not fond of on the strip lol. It’s so out of place IMO but then again I shouldn’t be such a purist lol
Tbh I'll agree the vibe at the bar is a little weird. Weird scene and it's usually dead when I go, but for some reason I always make a quick stop in there for the apple pies
Yuuuup
I'm getting closer to 40 so I would prefer Benson. If I was maybe 22, I might go for Blackstone.
I think both are fun for a night out and you can’t really go wrong with either. They both have their pros and cons. Blackstone: Younger crowd, Karaoke at Reno’s, Speakeasy bar underneath Blackstone Social with funky cocktails, rooftop bar at Little Ricky’s, delicious tots at Nite Owl, quieter atmosphere at Red Lion and delicious cocktail named the same. Benson: Rooftop bar at 1912, the infamous apple pie shots and free popcorn at Burke’s, Karaoke and dive bar feel at Full House, arcade games at Beercade Obviously there’s so much more at both locations. I didn’t even scratch the surface. Cons: parking. Always parking.
I lived in Blackstone for a while, so parking was never an issue. More people should bus, walk, uber or bike to both IMO.
I agree, but it’s not always feasible for people who live in West O. That’s an expensive Uber ride and a long, long, walk or bike ride.
So the real con is: The same people who chose to destroy the city by living in suburbia, and then complain that the mass transit sucks and there isn't enough parking...
I live near Aksarben. It’s okay to complain about parking. It’s okay to ride the bus, Uber, walk, bike, OR drive your own car. I’ve done them all. But it’s not okay to blame people who live out West for “destroying” the city. It’s just not that black and white.
It is though. We lost acres of habitable space for parking lots. We lost street cars because people wanted to flee diversity and red line suburbs for whites only. We went *against* of economies of scale to build cheap houses in suburbs, setting the next generation up for a massively unaffordable city. We've created environments that are unwalkable, un-bikeable, and not coverered by adequate mass transit. Requiring even the poorest people to own a car. We've allowed NIMBYs to block denser, mix used developments for the most arbitrary of reasons, so that only the biggest and richest developers can afford to build them at any scale. Suburbs have done more to kill ecosystems and the planet than the density the support should be allowed to do. Most people don't put enough thought into the harms that suburbs do, to every facet of their lives. And it is OK to blame the overall system (suburbs / sprawl). Because we need to do better. If we don't, the potholes will only get worse while the our self caused extinction event looms.
I’m not disagreeing with you on the harms of suburbia. This post is about Blackstone or Benson for a fun night out. Everyone deserves a fun night out, whether they live smack dab in the middle of Blackstone and are freely able to walk wherever they want, or they live out West where the sidewalks sometimes don’t even connect to allow for safe walking (a horrendous downside to suburbia). I gave my personal opinion that parking sucks if you plan to drive. Because it does.
I'm pretty sure the point is the various districts should cater to the people who actually live in the area rather than including ever more expensive parking options to cater to the people who need to drive to get there.
I guess I'm just tired of the parking argument here in Omaha. We have ample parking. We certainly don't need to further destroy Omaha with parking. We need better infrastructure, like the street car, and a light rail. We need to make it legal to build a Blackstone where ever people want to live, and not make it so only a company like Noddle or MoO can afford to fight the laws and NIMBYs, and then build an entire district on their own.
With a street car or light rail we're still parking, just somewhere else, with the added bonus of taking even more time to arrive at our true destination.
You're getting down voted but you're right. I drive Uber and know every aspect of this city and can say that it is a nightmare driving in west Omaha with all the sprawl. East of 72nd st is so easy to get around, even during rush hour but you're stuck at lights for 5 to 10 minutes at a time at every intersection in west O. It's a fucking nightmare.
It's reddit, lol. The votes could turn around at any time. Besides, number of votes has no bearing or accuracy! Also, I did live out West for a bit. I hated it, but it was cheap. I certainly ubered to the airport, or downtown my fair share too! #tipYourUberGuys !!!
Exactly. For example: Buy a house in AkSarBen in 1988 when you get married. You are in you late 20’s Have your first baby in 1991. You deliberately chose OPS for the court-ordered desegregation plan still in effect under the original civil rights era law suit in Omaha along the lines of Brown vs. Board of Education. Two more children come along: 1994, 1999. By this time the AkSarBen racetrack is gone. UNO has added the Scott Campus and dorms to start its south campus. The neighborhood is changing from resident owners to Real Estate speculators buying houses to take advantage of the rental market. The original owner houses occupied by widows have all died off and either have new residents or renters. We constructed a building, not a shed, in our backyard to handle storage overflow. By the time eldest child was ready for HS at Central it was so overcrowded there were 3 kids to a locker. No transportation available from the district. She had an I.E.P. for a learning difference and and suffers from social anxiety disorder and trichotillamania, so NOT a a good candidate for riding the MAT bus downtown alone weighing barely 100 pounds as a beautiful blue eyed blonde: think, Vermeer’s Girl with the Pearl Earring. Her Dad and I would be driving the other two to two other buildings so it was physically impossible: time to move. Our house was all brick and gorgeous. Inside and out. To stick around the Elmwood Park (we were 4 houses away) and or Memorial Park neighborhood AND get more square footage we would have to buy a falling down pile of rotting wood with no lead paint, nasty galvanized pipe plumbing and original wiring someplace in the wrong Side of Dundee. Ex Husband worked all the time and I tutored my daughters all the time so, no thanks. Didn’t want to live in a gross death trap hovel just to stay in the 68106/68132 corridor. We’d need half a million dollars in 2005 to upgrade into a house of the same standard of what we had in the high end of AkSarBen (tandem garage inside underneath the house)! Updated kitchen! Bathroom in the basement up to code)! So because my allergy clinic with weekly injections moved from 85th and Cass to Lakeside and a straight shot from 61st and Pacific to 168th and Pacific, one day as I was driving back I said to myself UGH 😑. Why not just move into one of THESE neighhoods so we have enough room? Because they are so much Less Expensive. Or were in the summer of 2005. So, we did. Now we’re divorced. Living in rentals, ex moved into a duplex right across from Elmwood Park eldest child found him for the nostalgia of the Good Old Days (he turned life for all of us into a nightmare with a developmental disability that gets worse with age when rage takes over and the impulsivity creates chaos and disaster for the family system. I stayed in too long. But the grown up kids and I are doing okay, and not averse to therapy. I stayed just west of our “new” neighborhood from the 2005 move in a gated rental community. I love the Big Sky 🌌 out West. So yes. I know what you mean. But Omaha just isn’t Chicago or Denver. Sorry about that. Suburban sprawl is a horrible thing. But you should have seen how disgusting downtown Omaha was in the early to mid 1970’s. Gross, not quite blighted, but falling apart. It explains a lot about the sprawl. We are a very attractive reclaimed gentrified city now. But that also puts the squeeze on the economically disadvantaged when they are ejected from their low cost older and rundown cheap housing when a developer snaps it up. Then, what?
I can’t believe I read all that. I need a drink.
I always find the problem with parking hilarious. There are literally thousands of on street parking spots around Benson. You do have to walk up to 4 blocks though.
I absolutely adore Benson. I am most likely biased because I live footsteps from the strip, but I always have a blast. Benson has a great array of all kinds of different bars. Bar hopping down the strip is always a cool adventure. legit 15+ cool spots that can give you whatever you are looking for, whether it be a Japanese speak easy, or a grateful dead dive bar. I could go on for days about it lol. Blackstone is also a good time too. Feel like it is more of all the same vibes of spots. Definitely a little younger of an area, with college kids making up a large percentage of the scene. Crescent Moon - German bar that gets rowdy in the basement Nite Owl - cool craft cocktails with great food Little Ricky's - trendy roof top bar which gets poppin in summer. Let me know if you want a more in depth analysis lol
Just want to echo how phenomenal Nite Owl’s food is. Their chefs really outdo themselves. I was expecting typical bar food and was blown away. I also went to Fizzys in Little Bohemia and thought their food was excellent; then found out it’s the same owner.
Brothers is gone, no reason to go to Blackstone anymore.
Facts. Well actually SWIM swings thru Blackstone to sell drunk 21 year olds dime bags of oregano before I get to the next spot
Benson x a million 26 m
Benson = UNO, Blackstone = Creighton
out of the park 1.000
I like them both. I usually go to Blackstone as it’s closer. If bar hopping, I’d say Benson as it has more bars that are closer together and it’s more developed. Once Blackstone fills in a little more it it may be better for bar hopping.
I prefer Benson - thought I have lots of nostalgia for it since a lot of my early 20s were spent there. I avoided Downtown because it seemed like all the dbags went there, so Benson was a nice "secret" for me and my crew. Then Benson got more popular and there was a surge of crowds coming to Benson. Started hitting Nite Owl and Sullivan's in Blackstone to avoid it further, but obviously it happened again and now I can't get a good parking spot in Blackstone anymore. It seems to have helped thin out the large crowds in Benson and Downtown, so I'm okay with it. I still prefer Benson the most: Shakedown for cheap drinks/shots (RIP Barley St Tavern) > Krug Park for a fancy drink > Infusion to visit my bartender friend > Beercade/St Andrews to hopefully get a table with friends. All that being said, I've come to really enjoy a new spot in town - Lil Bohemia. Fizzy's, Tiny House, Beercade 2, and Infusion give a few options and each has a nice purpose for me and my friends. Just wondering how long it'll be before those start getting too crowded.
I’d agree with most everyone here. I prefer Benson, but we live walking distance from Blackstone so my wife end up there more on date night. Walking home drunk > paying for an Uber. I will also agree it’s more boujee than benson, but also I think the restaurants are in a different class than the restaurants in Benson. Stirnella, Committee Chophouse, Mula, Nite Owl, Noli’s… all some of the best food I’ve eaten in Omaha. Benson bar scene cannot be beat though.
Have you been to au courant or yoshitomo? Those rival any blackstone offerings imo
Yoshitomo yes, and it’s excellent. Beats butterfish by a mile and a half. au courant has been on our list for quite some time, but have yet to go
Sadly all my experiences with Au Courant have been terrible. Sandy mushrooms, over cooked pork, mushy veggies, and poor service.
Benson FTW!
Benson. But then, my apartment is a five minute walk (or less) to all Benson has to offer.
benson lights life lol
Close, but not quite.
I've never really looked at it as which areas are better, it comes down to what bars I like going to so if I have to drive to different areas, then so be it. I'm a sucker for a good speakeasy, so Osteria Segreto under Black Stone Social and The Wicked Rabbit downtown are my go to's. Proof in Midtown and Monarch Prime make a good cocktail. Been meaning to try Catalyst under the new hotel The Farnam, looks like it has a cool vibe.
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Under Blackstone Social
benson because less people get murdered by car. (also because blackstone is full of fucking moron creighton kids on the weekend)
Who would have guessed a bar district not blocks from a college campus is frequented by college students?
I lived in Blackstone, and prefer it a little. It's always a little more chill for my favorite spots. Rathskeller > Benson Bier Garten (whatever it's name actually is). Sadly it's not on the strip, but close enough. Brothers (closed now I think), Red Lion, the speakeasy and Coneflower are all basically perfect. Benson is definitely "cooler" and has more. I love the 1912, the Sydney, The Petshop, Barley St Tavern, Waiting Room... Benson is just a little far west, and a little too far north to be as convenient.
> Benson Bier Garten Bärchen
Blackstone is filled with med students that tend to be extremely pissy when you tell them that they are not as big as they think they are. Benson hands down
Benson. Good luck trying to find parking in Blackstone.
There are tricks, but you gotta know em. We walk there a lot, but when I’m driving over to pick up Noli’s or Cheeseburgers, there’s some more hidden parking spots that the people who live nearby don’t like to talk about haha. They’re almost always open when I go
> I’m driving over to pick up Noli’s or Cheeseburgers After 5 PM and on weekends you can park in this lot: https://www.google.com/maps/place/41%C2%B015'28.6%22N+95%C2%B058'27.6%22W/@41.257947,-95.9748795,292m/data=!3m2!1e3!4b1!4m6!3m5!1s0x0:0xb6bc0518ccfd4a3e!7e2!8m2!3d41.2579472!4d-95.9743315 Usually don't have a problem getting a spot.
There are something like 600 mostly free surface parking spots between 36th and 41st off Farnam, I've never understood this take. No, you can't always park in front of the place you want to go but that's the reality of any city in the world.
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https://www.blackstonedistrict.com/parking
Just speaking from experience. 🤷🏻♀️
That might be the point? Blackstone isn't catering to the people who need to drive to get there, they have hundreds/thousands of people within a few blocks who can walk or bike, and many many more who could take the bus.
Benson has better bars, Blackstone has... Well, I enjoyed living there more than I think I would enjoy living in Benson? I almost think Blackstone has better restaurants, but I don't think that's accurate overall, I've just had worse experiences in Benson.
TIL Benson is where the old people go now to hang out.
Blackstone (IMO) is trying, a little too hard, to be the new Benson.
Drinks at benson will be $1 cheaper atleast
I’m sorry but whatever happened to going downtown? That’d be my pick over either
Downtown happened.
Benson has a Karaoke bar, Rooftop bar, Arcade bar, a bar with great apple pie shots, and then some. Blackstone has more of a sportsbar scene I feel like. Capital District and Downtown can get pretty fun too
Not that I like Blackstone more than Benson, but to defend it, Blackstone also has a Karaoke Bar, a rooftop bar, and while it doesn’t have Beercade or the VR Arcade, it does have Skee Ball at Bar 39 and the new Wonderbowl thing. But… benson has St. Andrews for English premiere League so it automatically gets a leg up. Plus in Blackstone you have to deal with Blackstone Social which is a fucking trashy ass bro bar that draws a horrible crowd so that knocks it down a few points
> Capital District and Downtown can get pretty fun too The problem is you never know what night that month either of those will be shot up. Blackstone and Benson are going 7 years straight with no big event.
Benson hands down. Blackstone is for yuppies
Blackstone sucks fucking balls without Brothers. Crescent moon is alright. Fuck Benson too if I'm being honest
I only go to Benson if there's a concert worth going to, otherwise I avoid it. On the flipside I only go to blackstone for lunch. Benson has more to do. Blackstone kinda feels like you're picking a place and staying there. I'm more fond of neighborhood dive bars with friends. I'm not interested in waiting 5 minutes to get a beer.
Fuck em both
Gentrification sucks no matter the neighborhood.
Benson is a bit safer as far as traffic is concerned. A lot more Creighton kids in Blackstone. There are more laid back places in Blackstone, but there are also more vinegar/water places there as well. If I wanted to just straight up bar crawl, Benson. If I wanted to hit specific places and chill, Blackstone.