6405 Center Street
Omaha, NE 68106(402) 558-5010
Closed Mondays, open 'til 1:30pm on weekdays and 1:00pm on weekends
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| You have a choice. The choice is chips or salad with your sandwich. We said salad. We got this. Iceberg with a ladle of bleu cheese. Simple and yet elegant. |
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| And for the lady, a side of house-made red wine vinaigrette. I say screw the lettuce and give your bread a soak in the stuff. |
Following the steps of that bleachy haired stallion from Diners, Drive-ins and Dives can be gut busting. Take the taquito-chos in San Diego, and the cheesegasm at Cali Taco, for example. At Amato's, the autographed poster from triple D hangs proudly at the entrance. And so we came hungry, but on this Man vs. Food-like excursion, Man lost. Although we didn't order the "Gut Buster" sandwich from the menu, our bellies still surrendered by waiving the white to-go box way before halftime. Maybe we filled up on too much iceberg 'n dressing salad. Can I go there and just order some bread soaked in red sauce? Those were easily the best parts, although the sauce did have an interesting cinnamon-esque flavor. The giant marinated olives on the Tutti Special and the sloppy mounds of mozzarella on the Italian Beef were a little much, even by FIO standards. Another case of "I don't really want to eat this for lunch but would shove it down my gullet late-night if given the chance." I mean, I totally had a sauce stain around my lips for the rest of the day.
I hear they've got a bangin' breakfast; in fact, on weekends it's all they serve, and on weekdays they'll flip you some ricotta pancakes right up until their absurdly early 1:30pm close time. I can't wait to try the "Mail Man Special," which is just two eggs and a hamburger patty, no big deal. (Obviously this is what we're supposed to feed our mail men.) Just like my saucy sausage cookin' Italian-American grandmother, Amato's doesn't do vegetables. Deal with it.
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| Tutti Special-- Lurking inside are two Italian hams, Genoa salami, provolone cheese, sweet roasted peppers and olive condite. |
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| Italian Beef-- Thinly sliced with red sauce and mozzarella cheese leaking all over the place. It reminded me of a cheesesteak and therefore I was happy. |
This place has half it's act together. The diner food is pretty good, but the service crosses the border from being merely informal and unpretentious to being downright off the wall rude. When one member of our gathering expressed that they didn't receive a fork, the waitress took one from the place setting of the man sitting across the table, announcing that he didn't need it with what he had ordered (a sandwich and fries). Just so wrong on so many levels. It just soured us on the whole place.
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