Social media accounts report that OMA is open for business at 1116 Logan St. in Shelby Park. We are not speaking here of Oma, your German great grandmother from Regensburg, although this is probably why I think of Rouladen and Rauchbier each time the name is mentioned (come to think of it, this would be a great name for a German eatery).
Reservations are an absolute requirement at OMA as longtime taste-making chef Adam Burress (Hammerheads, Migo, Game, Ostra) introduces “hombre-kase” dining to Louisville, as adapted from the Japanese “omakase” (hence Oma), meaning the chef selects the fixed price menu, cooks it, and you watch, eat and drink.
There are 14 seats; two nightly seatings; Latin and Oaxacan coastal and equatorial flavors; all in a live-fire (open flame) tasting format emphasizing “primitive techniques with modern presentation.”
As for those nights and seatings, OMA’s pages at Facebook and Yelp show the evenings of operation as Thursday, Friday and Saturday, and (overall) hours of 6:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. each night.
Oma has an Instagram page, but of course it isn’t the place to look for solid information (the photos are gorgeous, though).
Reservations are booked by Tock, but as of this moment OMA’s web site instructs diners to call for reservations: 502.208.5507
If all this seems mysterious, groundbreaking, evocative and befuddling, I’m guessing these feels are the precise intent and if so, it’s a mightily effective strategy, even to a gray-hair like me. All I can add is this: More power to Chef Burress, and I hope OMA works out.
(There’s an article at the CJ, too.)
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