Pictured are the owners of the new Omelette House in Union Township, Kim and Maher David on June 16, 2021.
Pictured are the owners of the new Omelette House in Union Township, Kim and Maher David on June 16, 2021.
Pictured is the inside of the restaurant, renovated after previously being an Indian cuisine restaurant.
Pictured is the outside of the restaurant, located at 1096 Old State Route 74.
The recently opened Omelette House in Union Township is serving up 16 different omelettes, pancakes, french toast, and even dinner, along with an insatiable appetite for serving county residents.
Opened the week of June 9 next to the Marathon Gas Station at 1096 Old State Route 74 next to Schoolhouse Road, the construction in front of the restaurant along S.R. 74 hasn’t deterred eager, hungry customers.
Kim and Maher David, the owners, previously owned Joe Luigi’s Pizza and More in Owensville since 2014. They originally thought about keeping both locations, but that idea didn’t last long, with the pandemic and stretching themselves too thin.
“This was perfect; we remodeled it for months. I’ve always wanted to open an Omelette House and here we go, I did,” Kim said. “You know, the road being closed hasn’t even hurt us; Sunday, you couldn’t even sit in here at all.”
Maher later added, “Honestly, we saw a need for the restaurant … it was time to make a move.”
With people beginning to venture out closer to “normal” levels with COVID-19 numbers continually decreasing, the Omelette House opening has been rather serendipitous timing.
“You come in, you’re not going to wait to be seated because he gets that food out so quick in the kitchen that that’s what we want to do. That’s what we want to do: we want to get you in, make you feel at home, that’s why I kind of decorated it like a house,” Kim said.
The space used to be Desi Spice Indian Cuisine, with black ceilings and bright red walls. The remodeled space for the opening of the Omelette House is nearly unrecognizable, with Kim’s aforementioned home flourishings and furnishings.
For Maher, who does the cooking, these are his “stomping grounds.” Enmeshed in the community and having been doing this his whole life, Maher never wants to stop moving and never wants to settle down in retirement; he wants to be back behind the stove whipping up food and satisfaction for customers.
“He has a relationship with all these people around here; he’s been feeding most of them since he was 15,” Kim said.
In fact, Maher started washing dishes at his dad’s restaurant at the age of five.
Kim deals more with the business and administrative side of things, as well as being front-facing with the customers.
“We compliment each other: What I can’t do, he can do, vice versa. And that’s really how our relationship kinda works,” Kim said.
Currently, they have two servers helping with the influx of customers.
Kim also praised Stan Deimling, fire chief for Union Township and Heather Frye at the Clermont Chamber, for helping them “so much” because they’ve never started a restaurant from scratch.
“We’re just glad we can do it; it works out for our community, which we love and serve in every aspect that we can and for us [and] for our kids,” she said. “It’s a great little place; the people are wonderful around here.”
Maher said it’s a “labor of love,” and as the community emerges from the pandemic and isolating, he said it’s making you realize what you missed.
Kim also said, regarding the name, “Who doesn’t love a good Omelette?!”
Among the 16 varieties of omelettes they feature — and Kim always talks about adding even more — the offerings run the gamut from basic inclusions of cheese or ham to country fried steak, biscuits and gravy and a hash brown omelettes.
The most popular omelette among customers right now is the house omelette, Maher said, which features bacon, tomato, sausage, ham, onion, green peppers, mushrooms and cheese.
“The goetta omelette is the premier omelette,” he added, an omelette he created nearly 20 years ago.
Other items on the menu include berry delicious french toast, cheesecake filling pancakes, chocolate chip waffles, and a favorite among customers: goetta, whether as a bowl or a side.
On Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings, they have dinner hours. The menu includes all manner of burgers from The Leroy (double bacon cheeseburger with lettuce, mayo, tomato and onion) to a mushroom burger, and sirloin, spaghetti with meatballs, and filet of sole.
All of the food is homestyle and from scratch.
“People like choices,” Maher said.
He also makes a homemade chili, Cincinnati-style of course, and shared it with this reporter, who found it delicious, with all due respect to other Cincinnati-style chilis.
“Our hobby is work,” Kim and Maher simultaneously said.
Maher added about being behind the stove, “I guess that’s where my destiny lies. It’s very fulfilling.”
Both feel good when they can make others feel good through good eating.
The restaurant is open Tuesday through Sunday 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., and closed on Mondays. As mentioned, they re-open on Thursdays through Saturdays from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.
For more information, visit the restaurant’s Facebook page here: https://fbook.cc/3UNW, or call 513-752-4600.