Nick's Family Restaurant — Restaurant in Vero Beach

We ordered food from here about a month ago. I tried calling to place the order but kept getting the automated voicemail. So I went in, ordered, and waited. We got traditional wings and a chicken fingers basket. I personally wasn’t super impressed with the wings, but my boyfriend liked the chicken fingers. I was going to give it another shot tonight. I tried calling to place an order again, same thing. So I went there and went up to the bar to place my order. The bar back was the only one that acknowledged me and asked if I wanted a drink. I said no thanks, and that I just needed to place a to-go order. He said he’d let them know. I sat there for 20 minutes before someone finally came and took my order. So I ordered the same thing. She goes back to put the order in. Comes back after a few minutes to tell me they won’t take the order. I’m when I asked why, she said they already had 3 to-go orders and it would be 2 hours before they could take mine. So I asked if that’s how long it would be if we were eating in the restaurant and she said no. So I asked again to confirm, that they would not take my order and she said that was correct and they’re short staffed.

So I wasted around 30 minutes in this place trying to place an order just to be denied service.

I get being short-staffed. But 3 to-go orders set you back 2 hours? And I’m sorry, but it you can make food for me if I was sitting down to eat, what is the difference of me ordering the food, and sitting there waiting for the food to come out and leaving?

Definitely won’t be coming...

Nick’s opening back up has been a game changer in our household. My husband said tonight is my night to pick a place for take out dinner and to surprise him when I got home with it. I was able to pick anywhere I wanted. So, Nicks was the very first place on my mind. I ordered over the phone and when I got there the kitchen noticed I ordered my husbands wing flavor wrong, they know him too well lol. They gave me a side of his favorite sauce jalapeño garlic “house” it’s called. Now he’s been getting this flavor since he was a kid. Probably over 15 years now. Well tonight I ordered “hot garlic parm”, thinking I totally knew what he wanted. To find out I got that wrong. But when he saw them he said “to be honest with you, I don’t know what I’ve been missing all these years”. My mistake of a favorite flavor actually won the flavor challange for him. I got the “delicious” which to me a sweet and tangy and it was so good a true flavor between sweet and spicy. A 10 min ride home and the wings and fries were still piping hot. The fries were as crispy as they would have been if I had dined in. That’s always one thing I’ve hated about take out. I’m forever air frying the fries when I get home. But neverrrr with Nicks. You may wait 30 mins for your food. But it’s good, it’s hot and it’s fresh. A big thanks again to the entire Nick’s Crew for everything you do, we will...

We arrived at Nick's on a Thursday evening. The place was busy. But right after we sat, it got packed. It is a family restaurant, but it's small, so you are likely to hear screams and cries from kids VERY loudly.

We ordered wings, a meatball sub, a chicken Sammy, and fountain drinks. What threw us off from the food is that we ordered Honey BBQ wings, and they looked and tasted more like Honey Mustard wings (they also forgot my celery :() The flavor was good, but not what we expected. The meatball sub was exquisite, and the chicken sandwich (burger?) was pretty good, just underseasoned, but cooked well (not dry at all!). We loved the bike for the fountain drinks here.

They run specials throughout the week, for Thursdays is pint of beer $4 and pitcher $15.

Very good restaurant, great food, just a little too loud. Also, food takes a long time to come out, so expect to wait a bit longer than usual for your food to come out. Server was super friendly (dark hair girl, didn't get her name, but she was fantastic). Gove it a shot, very clean restaurant that...