Nicks Bar & Grill — Restaurant in Virginia Beach

A "Run-A-Way Bill" Favorite breakfast experience ... doesn't get any more "local" than "Nick's" in the Virginia Beach oceanfront.

Home-made "creamed chipped-beef" over home-fries is my personal favorite!

"Run-A-Way Bill" 01.29.16

Virginia Beach, Virgina —-

“Nick’s” was my 1st breakfast visit after 4 months roaming the USA pARTy Trails!

Besides their famous early-bird “Pooch” special, I go for their tasty-riffic “creamed cipped-beef” over their yummy-riffic home-fries.

Service always leaves me with “More Smiles Than I Came In With!” too ...

a “Run-A-Way Bill” Favorite USA eatery!

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12.22.17

05.02.19

New ownership renovation added additional counter seating BUT the counter requires customers to sit side saddle and lean inward towards the counter.

Same reliable serving team always makes me leave wanting more.

“Nick’s” has always been a “Run-A-Way Bill” Favorite eatery.

07.30.21

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Virginia Beach, Virginia -

long time since I ate at “Nick’s” …

“Run-A-Way Bill” FAVORITE smile-riffic “Cheryle” is the reason I returned …

new owner’s really poor counter design requires sitting side-saddle and then lean in past the counter trim to eat …

also, the new owner serves up LESS quantity on the chipped-beef portion, moving it down the list of the “Run-A-Way Bill” “Chipped-Beef Challenge” list …

03.03.22

Super Server “Denise” keeps me coming back …

discovery of Scrapple on the menu proved WOW-riffic - large portion of crispy Scrapple was a tasty-riffic side with my enormous pancake …

“Let’s Get This breakfast Started!”

02.01.23

Nick’s is not just about breakfast - Nick’s serves up yummy-riffic chicken Philly ….

the pepper’s and onions with provolone provided a bite—by-bite delight - they make healthy tasty-riffic …

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We were fully expecting a really good meal and were all disappointed. It was just not good... Plain and simple. The fried seafood platter was piled up on a plate that was too small. You couldn't eat it or even see what you had to eat without it falling off of the plate. The breading is simply not good... At all... Just a hard, crunchy not good quality breading! There was alot do it, but no quality. The scallops were the onky thing good in it and still that breading was blah The hushpuppies were completely flavorless and had been reheated in the microwave at least once before they made it to us. . I really just knew those homemade hushpuppies would be delicious .. NOPE! The gentleman working the bar was absolutely a gem.. Super friendly! That was the highlight of the restaurant unfortunately. My salad had very.. very... Noticeably rotten cherry tomatoes in it and they were leaking rotten juice into the salad and smelled terrible, as well. When I asked the waitress if I may have a couple fresh tomatoes for the salad and showed her the rotten ones, she said oh.. OK and brought back to slices of regular tomatoes (no apology whatsoever). Sadly, the ranch dressing that was supposedly homemade, was worse then most store-bought dressings... I can't believe it was actually truly homemade. The green beans were like no others I've had, they tasted as though an entire bottle of liquid smoke had been poured in them and I don't mean the smokey flavor from fresh ham or bacon in them... Just liquid smoke.. Ick! The crabcake was poor quality at absolute best. We felt sick when we left.... sadly. Not at all the experience we expected from a restaurant that we used to think was...

This was by far my most uncomfortable experience at a restaurant and I’ve traveled abroad to many countries. I went with my kids and husband to accompany my hungry brothers. My fam and I were all still pretty full from our last meal but felt like we should order something so we all decided to get an order of fries. The waiter came and took my brothers‘ orders and then when I mentioned that we all wanted to get fries, he rudely asked, „that‘s it?“ with a very weirded out look on his face. He was very willing to try to sell us more even after I mentioned that we were all not that hungry (first time I’ve ever felt the need to give an explanation to a waiter). I’ve been to various restaurants with friends and family as a non-paying customer or ordering only an appetizer or a drink and never had a problem.

When our bill came, they charged us $17 for 4 tiny plates of fries. They made sure to try to up-charge them as much as they could. Way to lose new customers.

Update: I reminded myself to add a star because I had forgotten to mention the food quality which was,...