Rally Coffee Co. — Restaurant in Omaha

Honestly, it’s not a terrible coffee shop. It has everything to potentially be amazing except for the barista who is working on staff I could tell she was new and doesn’t necessarily have a driving passion for coffee. If that’s the feeling that you get maybe another company might be the best fit, but personally I look for third wave of coffee shops. The very first question I ask is what kind of coffee beans you have on bar and it’s not a good look when you have no clue you have to walk over to the machine. From that moment, I knew my coffee was not gonna be made right. I think this is an amazing place and they have so much potential and the gentleman behind her was training her which I presume, but I felt like she gave the impression that she knew everything about what she was doing until she handed me my coffee and the milk was scorched too hot. I burned my tongue and that’s not the typical. I immediately told the barista and try to make some lighthearted remarks that even when I make coffee at home, but she wasn’t having any of it. She was quick to make me another one but had little to no in making any kind of conversation. The person behind her however, had a totally different mindset and you could tell that he had an interest and a love for coffee. I was tempted just to ask if you could make me my coffee.

Honestly, I write this not to tell people not to come here, however, pour the owner to pay attention to hiring the right person for the job because it really makes a difference. Not saying that I will never come here again, but I just think you’ve gone through all the trouble to roast your own beans control time temperature everything and you’re interesting it in someone who doesn’t value the hard work that you took to make your product shine the greatest to me. It seems counterproductive. It’s like building a car for the race track, and then putting an inexperienced driver...

Rally Coffee Co. nailed it with the way they put their shop together. My congratulations to them for the way they’ve opened. Their marketing campaign was fun to watch unfold. The coffee shops I like best have a few things in common and Rally Coffee Co is now part of that club. One, a cortado on menu. It’s my favorite drink and not everyone does it and not everyone does it well. They do both. And when it’s on menu, you know it’s been perfected. Two, prices with a single decimal point. It’s a funny observation but shops with prices like 3 or 2.5 seem to make the best coffee. I haven’t figured out the correlation between dropping the second decimal point and making a great drink, but it’s there somewhere! Third, a reasonable, simple menu. I love a coffee shop that makes a handful of drinks really well rather than offering a huge list of specialty drinks paired with an even longer list of syrup add-ons. Four, mixed seating options. It’s thoughtful to have spaces for singles, couples, and groups. I appreciate the standing height bar top for quickly popping in and having a cortado. And lastly, a name ending in Co. Again, I haven’t figured out the exact correlation, but it seems like the cuter (or sillier) the name, the less I enjoy the coffee. Shops with a simple name ending in Co. tend to just nail it in the four previously listed ways. Thanks Rally Coffee Co. for putting together a cool space in an area needing a shop like yours. And thanks for doing what...

A coffee experience that I wish I could live over and over again, that found on a trip out to Omaha to visit family. My wife and I visit new coffee shops wherever we travel, it's a hobby of ours, and we we're supremely fortunate to decide on Bean Smith's with the limited amount of time we had to roam. We ended up talking to Ian, who upon hearing our interest in all things coffee, sat with us and talked about every finite detail of roasting, brewing, grinding, sourcing, water quality, you name it. We just sat and geeked out while he shared some amazing coffee with us and made our experience one I'll never forget.

The wife and I ended up taking home two pounds of the Ethiopia Derar Ela because it reminded us so much of what Konga Wote was like a few years ago, and the profile they had for this coffee was sensational. Seriously if you or someone close to you loves coffee, make a trip out to Bean Smith's. Of all the places I've traveled in the United States and the coffee shops I've visited along the way this is hands down the best coffee shop I've ever been to. I would argue that they're one of the best coffee roasters in the country too. If you live in or around Omaha and haven't been here yet you're missing out on something...