Rock Bottom Brewery Omaha

Rock Bottom Brewery’s Omaha location, located in the Old Market (1101 Harney Street), is a leader in “beer on demand” technology. With select party booths that boast taps right at the table one of their award winning beers is never far from hand. Happy Hour is Monday - Friday from 3pm-6pm, with two late night Happy Hours (Monday-Thursday 9pm-close and Friday & Saturday 10pm-close) as well as all day Sunday. Specials include $3, $5 and $7 discounted appetizers like single kobe sliders, ball park pretzels and chicken quesadillas as well as $2 off Rock Bottom pizzas, signature beers, wine by the glass and cocktails. Daily bonus HH specials include Monday ½ price wine bottles, Tuesday $6 southwest lemonades, Wednesday $6 Absolut martinis, etc. on top of their daily specials like $5 margarita and mojitos on Mondays. Rock Bottoms interior is pretty standard. A nicer Old Chicago, plenty of seating, low light and central bar. Everything you expect from a “chain” brewery.

I ended up doing this review in two parts. The first visit happened to coincide with some big event downtown earlier, resulting in RB being out of jalapeno spinach dip, sliders and pretzels. If you know me, you know once I want something I get really worked up when it is no longer available. Hence my return visit. My first trip included a mango margarita ($7 for HH, $5 when I returned on a Monday) which was delicious. I tend to be pretty ehh on most margaritas because super fruity/syrupy. These were not that. Pretty strong (two had me feeling it) and not too much flavored syrup (since again this is a chain I gave them a pass on not using real fruit).

Their Southwest Egg Rolls were next ($7: pulled chicken breast, black beans, roasted red peppers, zucchinis, carrots, tomatoes, corn & pepper jack cheese with a spicy ranch dipping sauce). Really liked these as they weren’t super greasy. All the veggies made me sort of pause but I felt healthier afterwards so that’s good. The dipping sauce was really yummy and complemented everything they had going on in the egg roll. The wrapper also wasn’t super thick which was good. Portions were really good, RB is a sharing app place for sure. These also passed the microwave at 3am without them being soggy and gross test.

Since they were all out of the things I came for on my first visit I tried the Skillet Chili Cheese Fries ($6.95: crispy seasoned french fries, cheddar & pepper jack cheese, housemade steak chili, jalapenos, red onions and sour cream) which wasn’t on the HH menu, but reasonably enough priced to be a substitute. Although the actual fries didn’t seem to be seasoned I loved the steak chili and there was enough of it that you didn’t have to eat plain fries. Again this was huge so I had another 3 am snack for later.

Again I returned a few days later because I HAD to try this dip. I ordered the Jalapeno Pretzel Stix ($5: hand twisted pretzels served with jalapeno spinach cheese dip) which was worth the return visit. The actual pretzels have jalapenos and cheese baked into them so you can eat them solo no problem. The actual dip was alright, it got cold rather quickly which rendered it sort of gross. Also didn’t expect this to be more queso dip than spinach dip. But the pretzels, they were great.

I give Rock Bottom 5 smiles. Everything I had was good and even the tiny misses like the dip and all the veggies in the egg rolls weren’t horrid. Rock Bottom also offers so many HH and daily specials it’s nearly impossible to not find something you can try here.