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The hanging Old Main Restaurant + Bar sign seen from below against a clear blue sky, the teal and gold shopfront and the street running away behind it

1103 Main Ave · Crete, Nebraska

Come for the food.Stay for the experience.

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What’s on

What’s on at Old Main

From white tablecloths to winner-stays-on — Old Main is where Crete gathers.

A fire took the original building in 2024. Rebuilding it took 22 months — better woodwork, our own beef, and two floors where there used to be one.

We reopened in May 2026 and the room hasn’t been quiet since. Read the whole story.

The Old Main storefront — green and gold panelled bays, gooseneck lamps, a cast-iron street light in front and the grain elevator rising behind

Downstairs — Fine Dining

Quiet rooms.Custom woodwork.Forty-day steaks.

Date nights and celebrations. Dry-aged Angus we raised ourselves, cocktails built slowly, service that doesn’t rush you.

The dining room
A dry-aged T-bone plated with glazed carrots and rosemary mashed potatoes
The full length of the self-pour tap wall, twenty screens receding down a penny-tile mosaic of the Old Main mark above a stainless trough

Upstairs — The Social Floor

Twenty taps.Two simulators.Late nights.

Pour your own beer by the ounce. Play golf in January. Rack a table. Bring everyone.

UpstairsThe simulators
Live band on the Old Main patio under strings of warm bulbs after dark

And outside — live bands under open sky.

Patio music schedule
A bone-in tomahawk ribeye rested on a wooden board with charred asparagus, thyme and cherry tomatoes, a glass and bottle of red zinfandel behind it

The tomahawk, carved for two.

The Beef

Our cattle.Our cabinet.Forty days.

The Angus on your plate was raised by the family that owns this building. It hangs in our dry-ager — in the dining room, where you can watch it work — until the flavor is where we want it.

Forty-day bone-in ribeye. Sixteen-ounce strip. A T-bone worth the drive from Lincoln.

The dinner menu

The Experience

Seven reasons to come up the stairs, stay past dinner, or come back on Sunday.

A dry-aged T-bone plated with glazed carrots and rosemary mashed potatoes

Dry-Aged Beef

Owner-raised Angus, forty days in the cabinet.

The steakhouse
Self-pour beer wall at Old Main with digital tap screens under a tiled Old Main sign

The Beer Wall

Twenty taps. Grab a bracelet, pour your own, pay by the ounce.

The Full Swing simulator screen lit in the dark, its game library showing golf, football, soccer and pitch pong, a bag of clubs and a row of balls staged in front

Golf Simulators

Two bays, real courses, open all winter.

Pool tables in the upstairs lounge at Old Main

Pool

Two tables upstairs. Winner stays on.

Old Main patio at sunset from above, string lights over picnic tables and the downtown Crete skyline

Live Music

Bands on the patio stage, all summer long.

Skillet dessert with ice cream, berry shortcake and coffee on the Old Main brunch table

Sunday Brunch

Juice flights, skillet cinnamon rolls, 10 to 2.

The restored dining room — framed historic photographs along a painted wall, exposed brick opposite, drum pendants over dark wood floors and an upright piano at the far end

Private Events

A private room for banquets, rehearsals, and company nights.

See the events calendar

Hours & Visit

Find us on Main Ave.

1103 Main Ave, Crete, NE 68333

(402) 418-7101 · manager@oldmain.net

Smart casual downstairs. Come as you are upstairs. Street parking on Main; lot behind the building.

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Monday
Closed
Tue – Thu
11:00 AM – 9:00 PMLunch + Dinner
Fri – Sat
11:00 AM – 11:00 PMLunch, dinner + late night
Sunday
10:00 AM – 2:00 PMBrunch

Lunch Tue–Sat 11–2 · Dinner Tue–Sat 5–9 · Late night Fri–Sat 9–11 · Fine dining reservations recommended.

Looking up the open stairwell through two floors of hand-built rail and spindle work to a ring chandelier under the pressed tin ceiling

Two floors, rebuilt by hand

20Self-pour taps
2Golf simulators
2Pool tables
22Months rebuilding

Coming up at Old Main

Everything coming up
Fri30OctWeekly specialLive on the patioBands in the beer garden. Music at 7.Old Main patio at sunset from above, string lights over picnic tables and the downtown Crete skyline
Sat31OctWeekly specialKaraoke nightSaturday karaoke from 7:30, drink specials all night.Saturday Karaoke Night flyer: Old Main Restaurant + Bar, starting at 7:30 PM, drink specials all night, self-pour beer wall and golf sims upstairs
Sun1NovWeekly specialBrunch, 10 to 2Juice flights, skillet cinnamon rolls, steak and eggs.Skillet dessert with ice cream, berry shortcake and coffee on the Old Main brunch table
Tue3NovWeekly specialTaco TuesdaySteakhouse taco platter, Asian lobster tacos, fiesta fries.The Old Main steakhouse taco platter on a round wooden board — sliced seasoned steak, warm flour tortillas, queso, Mexican street corn, rice, pico de gallo, red onion, lime and crema

Getting here

Twenty-five minutes from Lincoln. Worth every one.

Take Highway 33 into Crete and it turns into 13th Street; we’re one block off it, on the corner of 12th and Main.

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Old Main Restaurant + Bar1103 Main Ave, Crete, NE 6833325 min from LincolnFree street parkingCorner of 12th & Main