My folks come here for breakfast every Sunday morning, right when the place opens at 9am. So when I…read morerecently visited them, of course we had to continue the tradition!
This restaurant has been around for 102 years, so they gotta be doing something right, right?
The interior isn't huge but there are booths against the walls (booths for 4 diners against one wall, and booths for 2 against the other), with freestanding tables in the middle interior, and coatracks in the middle and back (more like a closet in the middle). The walls are covered with record album covers and photos. In the front of the restaurant is a long counter, with cloches and serving dishes full of huge muffins and cookies (they all looked bloody amazing!). All in all, it's a very warm and casual interior, and it feels like an old pair of favorite slippers. Comfortable and unassuming.
We sat at a booth where my folks always sit, and although their usual server wasn't working that day, we had Devon (and she was wonderful).
We had a variety of meals: mom had blueberry pancakes (lots of blueberries! She loved it), and my kid and my dad and I had a variety of eggs with bacon and toast and potatoes. It all was excellent. The bacon was crispy and they sure weren't stingy with portions (nice!), and the potatoes were great, too. I didn't have the coffee but the rest of my family did, multiple refills, in fact, and they all said it was excellent.
Did I mention that the portions were very generous? I could not even eat my toast, even after giving some of my bacon to my kid.
Two eggs, potatoes, toast and bacon cost $11. I think that's very reasonable. (I live in Vancouver now and that'd be considered a steal in Van).
FYI: there is a parking lot directly across the street from Nick's and parking is free there on Sundays (probably on the street, on Greene, too), and free after 6pm as well. Nice!