Designed for locals

If you live in Omaha, you probably love Block 16. If you're a tourist, you might want to pass. If you insist on going, Street View won't help you, pointing you to Table Grace Cafe, the restaurant next door that has prominent signage; Block 16, trying to discourage tourists, hides their sign behind a black screen.

When you get inside Block 16, everyone is nice and friendly. If you order a burger, they'll even ask if medium well is okay. This is a trick. If you ask for medium rare, they'll be secretly laughing at you because they can't actually do hamburgers at any temperature other than well done.

They're very proud of the Croque Garçon burger, and while it's a fine idea, they're being a bit gender queer with the sandwich. Normally it's a croque madame that comes with an egg on top, not the croque monsieur, and a croque madame is meant to be eaten with a knife and fork. The Croque Garçon probably would work better with a knife and fork too. It's a bit messy to pick up a sandwich with a runny yolk. I guess they could ask you how you want your egg and then laugh at you silently if you deviate from the default.

Best hamburger ever, as others have said? No, not even if mine had been medium rare, certainly not with an overcooked dry patty not shaped to work with the admittedly tasty (ciabatta? mine doesn't look like ciabatta) roll (perhaps the best part of the sandwich). I don't know how they fooled Alton Brown.

The wait for the food wasn't as long as they warned it might be, and the place is very LGBT-friendly, so if you are a local, it's probably a decent choice, if you're not getting a burger or they serve better ones to locals and Mr. Brown.