Gregorian chants drifting across a Nebraska parking lot is not what most people expect on the way to dinner. The building itself gives away almost nothing, just a low profile and a bell tower, the kind of place you could pass a hundred times without slowing down.
Then the door swings open and there are stone walls, firelight, shelves of books, and a server in a monk’s robe asking how you’d like your beef cooked. What follows is one of the most unusual steak dinners in the state, and the prime rib is the reason people keep making the drive.
A Monastery Hiding in West Omaha
Stucco walls, heavy timber, and a bell tower rising over the entry set the tone before anyone reaches the door. Brother Sebastian’s sits in west Omaha, in Douglas County, surrounded by the ordinary sprawl of shopping centers and neighborhood streets.
From the curb it reads as modest, almost plain. That flat first impression is part of the appeal, because the interior goes somewhere else entirely…