Roaming around The Market place in Omaha

 Omaha trip again.  One of the days we off on our own Doug and I spent time in a great Vinyl store.  They had other forms of entertainment as well such as DVDs and BluRay, CDs, loads of vinyl and even 8 Track!  We bought several B.B. King CDs,some Samantha Fish and a few movies.  

I can see we would be frequent customers at Homer's Vinyl if we lived near Omaha.

It was pretty wandering around the Market Place which is only a few blocks from our hotel.  This sign made me want ice cream.  Never did get it.

There's a little place called The Table and they make THE best waffles I have ever had. I'm usually a bigger fan of pancakes but these waffles.....so light and flavorful.

The owner spoke with us a few minutes and Tristan noticed his cell phone had a FSU Seminoles cover so he just said go noles. The man asked if we were fans, we told him we lived near Tallahassee and then he said he used to live there and his parents are still there! Small world.   But the waffles....seriously. we are eating there again if we go back.

Street signs adorning the walls

 This is a hidden gem tucked away on a main street in the Market Place.  When you enter through beautiful iron gates you'd think you'd landed in Italy. 

This is the portal and it attracted us immediately.

It was cooler in this courtyard, plants overflowing from windows in such abundance.

Lots of stairwells to check out.  This is Tristan at the bottom of one staircase.

Back onto the streets to see other businesses. A cigar shop here.

Travel shop with newspapers.

This plate and door attracted us as it's a throwback called The Gentelmen's Club.  We spoke with the lady who runs it as she was outside enjoying the sun on the terrace.  She took it over from her father and told us many of the decorations, windows, barware, etc were brought from England.

This photo does not do the windows justice.  They are stunning.

This looked like we were back in England.

The Spaghetti Works is a reasonably priced restaurant decorated with items that were in the old building when they  renovated.  The Italain dishes looked good and we enjoyed splitting a pizza and getting salad, saving our appetite for the Woodfire Grill at the hotel.

Such cool old lighting fixtures.

This salad......I just can't tell you how much I wanted salad and some veggies after a few days of eating restaurant food. You can't see all the wonderful (to me) ingredients I have stacked here but it's lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers, black olives, cheese, beets (lots of beets) which are hidden under the pasta salad on the left. Broccoli, radish and peas. 

So. Good.

I could bore you with more photos of the trip but I will end this post with a photo of my sweet little granddaughter sporting a cool Harry Potter dress. We are both Potter-heads so that was fun.

Sharing with Deb at Kahakai Kitchen for Souper Sunday.