Customers wait hours for final Italian meal at Omaha’s Lo Sole Mio before closing

OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) – A staple in Omaha is closing its doors for excellent in just above a week and quite a few aren’t all set to say goodbye.

Lo Sole Mio has been serving genuine Italian food to the metro for 3 a long time and will formally shut on July 2. Now, hundreds are flocking to the well-liked spot to get their ultimate Italian fix.

“We arrived to have meal at Lo Sole Mio just before they shut,” says Susan Frey, who created the 70-mile trek from Vallisco, Iowa to have one particular far more meal below.

“I experienced the grilled salmon and it was just wonderful,” she says. “And a small tiramisu, you have to complete with a tiny tiramisu!”

Operator Marie Losole says the restaurant was opened for and with their young children and now that they’re developed up, no a single can handle the business on their have. The determination to provide it was tricky and bittersweet, she states.

“We are 74, we have 17 grandchildren, and we want to choose the time to take pleasure in the time we have still left,” Marie suggests.

The previous few months have been nothing short of chaotic, she claims. But in a superior way.

“The hold out begins to kind at 2:15 and we open at a few, the wait around will go down for a block and possibly wrap all over. Today people had garden chairs sitting down outside the house.”

“Surprisingly plenty of when we say three hrs or a few and a half hrs, they say ‘ok!’ and we glimpse at them like, ‘are you outrageous, actually? that’s superb!’”

1 of these mad prospects is Kris Reicks and her spouse and children.

“We have come each 12 months on our anniversary for in all probability at the very least the final 20 yrs,” she suggests about herself and her husband.

They managed to get their name on the checklist prior to the restaurant had to begin turning men and women away at 4:30 p.m., even while they never shut right until 8 p.m.

“Two several hours and 20 minutes,” Reicks suggests. “It’s acquired a good deal of history, so it is truly worth the wait around.”

“We just desired to arrive up for a person past time and celebrate superior memories,” Frey claims.

Marie suggests they predicted some shoppers to occur and say goodbye, but they under no circumstances expected people today to be waiting several hours with out a next believed.

“To have the local community come out like this is thoughts-boggling and such an honor, our total personnel and household have been introduced to tears. It is been really emotional.”

She claims it is been an honor to serve Omaha for the past 30 yrs and she simply cannot thank the community plenty of.

“I was born in Italy, was an orphan, and thieving food stuff. I came to The usa and was adopted, and went from stealing meals to selling food stuff, and I have been blessed over and above any measure.”

Marie Losole tells 6 News the restaurant and the location place across the road will be rented out for commercial use. She also states she options to complete her book, “Life is a Recipe and God Retains Switching the Components.”

The e-book, she says, will be a story about her lifestyle, her spouse and children, and the restaurant, and will share some of the many stories customers of Lo Sole Mio have shared with her more than the decades. It will also contain recipes.