In search of WOW! - Ryan's Bistro

I am in search of a restaurant that I can say, 'Wow! That's really good, I'd like to come back here.'

So far, I've found some places that are good, some disappointing, but none that are really 'Wow!'

This weekend we went to 'Ryan's Bistro'.

I found it on http://www.OmahaNightLife.com.

From there I was bounced to http://www.opentable.com to make reservations.

The online reservation was quick and easy. I will most likely use http://www.opentable.com for future reservations.

Upon arriving at Ryan's Bistro, I gave our name and reservation time. They had that written down, but the person running that Hostess station seemed confused as what to do, because they had me scheduled for a table, but had given it to someone else.

The hostess actually walked away talking on the phone in the middle of trying to figure out what to do about the situation.

A couple of minutes of waiting, and they seated us at an empty table two steps away.

The wait staff was friendly. We ordered and had our meal at the table in a reasonable amount of time. One meal needed a modification and that was made in fairly short order.

We ordered the 'Asian salad' and 'Pork Osso-Bucco'. The salad was a huge amount of spinach leaves and some other items. It was ok, a little heavy on dressing, and seemed to have processed items in it, and not fresh.

The Osso-Bucco was ok. It wasn't bad, just not Wow! It was ordered with a rissoto side, which was a little mushy.

The pricing was a little towards the higher side, which wouldn't matter if the experience was more on the 'Wow' side, but based on this experience it probably won't see a return from us.

It was another time that we could have went to a fast food place, and felt better about spending the money on the meal.