I took my parents here to eat there for the first time It was so good . They are very clean and organized and friendly and they don't have attitude. They were very good . I ordered a Burger .It was huge . I give this place 5 starts . I highly recommend to go there. read more

We got the recommendation from Donna our owner/host of the FIELD OF DREAMS FARMHOUSE and we are happy we did. Nicks diner has a full menu w/tons of options for our picky family. Cold drinks, quality food and don't forget to coconut cake :) read more

Cute place. We got apps, dinner, dessert. All the food was good. Server was fantastic- very personable. Will definitely go back.

Ordered once and would never order again. Food was disgusting I couldn't eat it. Ended up going to bed hungry.

Nick's is my go-to Diner; the food is solid and the service is good. Of the dozens of times there, I've had one messed up order and they promptly fixed it. What's driving down the rating for this place is "The Rude Owner". He's what's behind the vast majority of the 1-star reviews because he's salty and obviously can't handle idiots anymore. Wanna know what's on the menu? Read the menu. If there's no tables available, there will be a wait. Huffing and saying, "WhAt Do YoU MeAn 20 MiNuTeS????", he'll tell you to go to McDonalds. But, if you're not an insufferable rock-head and you can use deductive reasoning...SHOCKINGLY, the guy behind the wall and in the kitchen cooking wont leave the kitchen; so you wont have to deal with him. Crazy, right? 1-star reviews for this place are a litmus test for Karens; it's busy because it's better than the hot trash diners around. How many places have come and gone in Oney? Nick's is still going and it aint because of charity. The owner can be as pissy as he wants, so long as the food is good. read more

Great breakfast food with big portions. The prices seem high for breakfast but with the bigger plates it's worth it. Andrew, our waiter, was awesome, very personable! This is a good place to get a hot meal while in Cooperstown Allstar Village. read more

Food was good. Waitress was kind. Owner/manager or whatever he calls himself was beyond rude to the patrons and staff. Had quite a mouth on him as well. Unacceptable. read more

Brought my son for breakfast and sat at the bar. The manager or owner was sitting next to us and overheard him on the phone upset about losing a $3000.00 check. Then we heard him talking to his staff like a jerk. Staff was getting upset and he seemed to really not care. He walked away and then came back and sat back down next to us at the bar seats and started using voice to text on his phone. He was telling someone he wasn't going to tolerate that behavior especially after cleaning the floor "PERIOD". The staff was working their butts off waiting and missing and he just sat there the whole time as he proceeded to watch videos on his phone. Besides that, food was good service was great! Food could be a little hotter when served. I had biscuits and gravy and it was a little cold. I know some people like their food "HOT" so if you are one of those, keep that in mind. Very clean inside. Watch your step when you leave. I was distracted by the pies and missed the first small step down on the way out! Lol read more

We came in to this restaurant after traveling all night and day from California, and we were so happy that somewhere was still open at 9 pm. The service was amazing, and the food was GREAT. The meatball sandwich was delicious! I wish I remembered the name of our waiter because he deserves extra praise. We will definitely be back this week while we're doing cooperstown read more

The serve was good the pizza we had was very good The dinner was clean and a lot of history I would say a sold place to have breakfast or lunch I will be back read more

Il never go to Nicks Diner again!! After finding a hair in my food and quietly pointing it out to the server, he didn't even apologize or comp the meal! Poor customer service. Can i give it a negative stars review???? read more

Great coffee and good friendly service. Very reasonably priced. Portions are big. Parking is across street or on street. Very clean restrooms . read more

First, let me say that our waitress was wonderful. Very nice, really great. The service was fantastic! The poor woman was waiting on all the tables, and was also busing tables. The restaurant was bright and clean and very inviting. The food was another story altogether. We ordered rye toast and it arrived burnt, I mean it was black. The waitress, when asked, got us new toast. My husband ordered an omelet and his eggs were slimy. My pancakes and those of my son had no taste and were over cooked. The bacon tasted off. We ended up not finishing our food. When we left, there were 4 tables besides ours that still needed to be cleared. The place was clearly understaffed. It was a Sunday morning and there should have been more employees working instead of one amazing person running herself ragged. Sadly, and this is not a reflection on our waitress, we will not be repeat customers. read more

Nick's was closed for awhile and not usually a place we would normally head towards. After we found out it was reopened we went out of our way to make the stop. We were disappointed. The common issue across the board was the food was luke warm. You can tell by the butter on the toast that wouldn't event melt. The flavor of the stuffed French toast was great but the temperature was not good. Be aware too, there is a 3.99% credit card charge that you aren't told about until you get the bill. read more

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Delivery order was finally delivered an hour after promised time. This was two hours after the order was placed. When we inquired about where our food was the male employee who would not identify himself was extremely rude and dismissive. I wouldn't recommend this restaurant. There is no excuse for the way this employee treated us. Whoever owns this establishment needs to address this problem. This employee is a massive liability. read more

Great service all around, food was good and came out fast every time, even when they were packed. Highly recommend!

We ordered pizza, shakes and sandwich at 8pm and it wasn't delivered until almost 10pm. All of the food was cold but our kids were hungry so we decided to just take it. When we called to let them know that the food was cold and soggy and the shakes were melted they told us there is no way it could be cold it's only 4 minutes away. We ordered at 8pm and it was delivered at almost 10pm lol. Stay away from this place . The food looks like it was in a car for about an hour and an half. Good thing we have a microwave in our hotel room. read more

The food was weird tasting. Tasted frozen not fresh. The eggs pretty sure were poured from a carton The salad was even cle and it had brown soggy parts to it. Disgusting spotted silverware and dishes. Yuck read more

Nick's Diner & Pizzeria - Raw meat burger - Pizza Near Me - Oneonta, New York

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If you're traveling thru, this is just the place you've been looking for. Easy to get to. Sit at the bar, they'll make you part of the family. Good food, good service. We got dinner, and dessert to take out so we could have pie for breakfast. read more

My hubs got us take out breakfast from here one morning while we were staying in the area, it was delicious.

I am always so disappointed when ordering from here so I don't order often. Tonight's order was missing everything that I left in the "special requests" section of the online order. I asked for sauce on the side, removal of a certain food, and a substitution. None of it was acknowledged. In addition to the food not being made correctly, the staff are not professional in the least. They are rude to each other in front of customers, vulgar with their language, and are constantly fighting. Always disappointing. read more

Delicious food, huge servings, reasonably priced, great service! We got sandwiches, pizza and fish and chips and walked out full and happy!

Every time I call to order take out, whoever answers the phone is extremely rude. I was going to order a pizza today, but the way they answered the phone I decided not to, nor will I give them my business from here on out. read more

Service was poor. No reflection on our server he was doing his best. Place was understaffed. Food was poor. Home fries? Appear to be something they scraped out of a deep fryer, couldn't tell if they were even potatoes Order was wrong I ordered one egg and received two. (Do not like to waste food) toast was bread no toast to it. Coffee arrived after the meal. Time to pay? The server was unloading boxes of tomatoes so we had to wait to pay! Definitely need more help. read more

The food at this diner was completely inedible. 4 people complaining about the weird taste in our omelette. Refused to take the uneaten omelettes off the bill. Waiter was so rude and unapologetic. NEVER going back! read more

Terrific service! Had the epitome of a professional waiter - Devine (Greatest name ever!), and waitress - Jen (Greatest smile ever!). . . . Both were extremely friendly, attentive, conscientious, charming, and welcoming. Oh yeah, the food is pretty damn good also! read more

Clean and welcoming! Food was fresh, fast - corned beef hash was actual lovely chunks and shreds of corned beef with potatoes. Ham n cheddar omelet was also delish. Prices a bit higher than expected but overall worth the trip! read more

Terrible food over priced and terrible service...... 2 people coat 45?? I don't think so will not be back read more

We were in Oneonta for 2 days. We went to nicks 2times. 1st visit dinner. We sat fast. Waitress came over with menus and she was friendly. We ordered a pizza , penne al vodka. It was not quite al vodka like I am use to , but it was delicious. Came out piping hot Steak dinner was said to be good. It was cooked like he ordered. Pancakes were so big but I heard how good it was. Lunch day 2. Tuna sandwich with homemade chips Ok so I never saw yellow tuna fish. I imagine it had yellow mustard. The sandwich was huge lettuce, tomato, onion and a crazy amount of tuna fish. The chips were great. I really liked the sandwich But the chicken and dumpling soup was the best soup ever just think and full of large chunks of white chicken meat. I will be dreaming of it. read more

Been going for a long time and usually it's fine. Went today for breakfast and the home fries were burnt and basically inedible (how do you mess up potatoes??), the steak I wouldn't even give to my dog as it was still mooing, they only gave me two slices of bacon, and the eggs were gross too!! Super disappointing and disgusting. The service is good -- nice people, but would not recommend at all. read more

Always a great meal at a fair price! A diner to be visited frequently always a great time and relaxed casual atmosphere!

The food was great and the portions. Service was excellent. Nit sure how people.have rated them so low. If you're questioning to not go, then you're missing a great meal. read more

Terrible customer service. Food was nowhere next to expectations and when I made a complaint on Facebook I got back a nasty message. If you want good food the first time your better off just sticking to pondos. Manager at Nick's is rude and unprofessional cant imagine why he would be picked to run the store. Not to mention got the worst wings of my life! read more

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Had fish and chips and my girlfriend had a burger. Presentation on both dishes were well done and looked full. My fish was undercooked in the middle which I don't understand, considering how long we had to wait and the lack of business at the time. Maybe three other tables? The "tartar sauce" was watery and kind of flavorless. What flavor it did have I can't really explain but it was unpleasant. My girlfriend said the burger wasn't bad but not worth the price as it was a pre-made patty, probably Aramark or Sysco. The only edible part of the meal was my fries. Not impressed. read more

The inside look was so cool; the tables and bar area are made from what looks to be old bowling alley floors. The food was alright. I got a cajun burger which was supposed to be a spicy burger topped with blu cheese and mushrooms. I requested no mushrooms, but when I got the burger, it wasn't spicy and had mushrooms on it. I didn't complain because I usually don't like to send food back. The burger was also well done even though I asked for medium rare. Prices were fine, and the service was friendly. If I go back I'd probably try something else. read more

We arrived to a fairly full house, its a new place so it was understandably busy, but, not THAT busy for a Saturday night in Oneonta. We ordered a Hot Roast Beef and a Hot Turkey Sandwich figuring the diner staples were a good example of what Nicks would be. We quickly found out they were out of Turkey. Again, no big deal wife changed her order to a Toasted Meatloaf Sandwich. Our appetizer came quickly enough (wisconsin cheese curds, aka pre-frozen, deep fried, nothing to really screw up here). Our MEALS came along a bit slowly but, new place, new staff, kinks are bound to happen. This was when we realized how GODDAMNED cold the place is. It was seriously very cold in this newly gutted and renovated building. This was also the time I started looking more closely at the place in general and seeing how dirty it was and how poorly constructed. The building as your standard 'air lock' system to keep the heat in, doors to the outside buffered by a door on the inside. The door on the inside however was a swinging door that didn't actually latch anywhere and did not fit the frame it was in (as you can see in the pics below) so it did nothing to keep heat in. I then noticed the exposed electrical junction box breaking up the brand new ceiling (not exposed wiring so no safety hazard but still, very shoddy work for a 1/4 million dollar restaurant). There were just tons of little things you could see around the place that simply done poorly during construction. Especially knowing what it cost to get this place open. Our meals arrived and my hot roast beef was meh at best. The mashed potatoes were simply that, potatoes that had been boiled and mashed to paste. No butter, no milk, no seasoning, no flavoring. Baseline potato nothing done to make them a 'dish'. The beef was lunch-meat warmed up which, I know a lot of places do b/c its cheap and easy. Its also the worst experience and I expect more from a diner. The worst part about it was the gravy. It wasn't really beef gravy so much as it was mushroom gravy and as someone who hates mushrooms it was very unpleasant to eat. This compared to what Lisa got though left me with little room to complain. Her sandwich was abysmal. The meatloaf was tiny, burnt and sitting on two slices of dry toast with 1 piece of cheese on one side of this grilled sandwich. The gravy (which was mostly mushrooms in a cup) was off to the side and there was nothing to hold the sandwich together or give it flavor. So while we ate I started looking at things more clearly wondering where the hell all the money went in this place, its not in the building, its not in the food. Then I realized how NICE i thought the menus looked and Lisa pointed out that there was a huge MERCHANDISE table behind me filled with "Nicks" Shirts and other knicknacks. As I looked a their Facebook page I saw this posted (image attached below). They wasted money on an advertising company who created their menus, probably created their cheap no frills place-mats (complete with standard diner style ads for local businesses) and apparently before they were opened had been posting STOCK PHOTOS of food on the Nick's Facebook page. So they blew a bunch of money on merchandise, a marketing agency which sold them on full color menus filled with fake photos of food that their customers will never actually see on their plates, a really mediocre website, and a building that can't even stay warm on a winter night. SO Now lets get to the customer service / management side of our story. As we sat there we heard a huge list of things being rattled off to a new table that had sat down of things they were 'out of ' b/c they'd been so busy. Two of these items blew our minds b/c of how basic and how easy they are to make. 1) Mashed Potatoes (I apparently got the last of those) 2) PANCAKES. The worst part about the pancakes situation is that some table had been waiting 15 - 20 minutes before they were told by their waitress that they were out of pancake batter and would need to order something else. They made a stink about that and the waitress came back apologizing saying that some more batter was being made but it would take a while. If your professional kitchen can not seriously get someone to whip up a batch of pancakes from scratch in a few minutes then you are in the wrong business. At the VERY MOST those customers should have been told that the batter had run out and it'd be a short delay while a fresh batch was made up to make their pancakes, not be told we're out of batter order something else. Same goes with the mash potatoes, there are several grocery stores in town, they could have had mashed potatoes purchased and boiling before they even ran out b/c lets remember it was only 6:30.. They're supposed to be open for another 3 1/2 hours yet. Absolutely terrible place and they hadn't cleaned the floors all day either. read more

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Use to love this place. Would go once A month. Had horrible service yesterday. at 12 p.m. we called and ordered 8 meals. we asked for them to be done at 3. So we gave them plenty of time to make the large order. By 2 they still did not give us a price on all the food. We spent $106 dollars there for food. Well one meal was missing. No biggy right. We live 40 min away so we asked if we could be met halfway since they deliver. That was a hassle. so we asked for money Back for the food we did not get. They told us they could not do that. so by 5 after everyone is done they finally arrive half way with our food. And the lady that brought the food rolled her eyes at me after I said thank you for the food. She never said a word and sped off. Then on Facebook she said I was nasty to her and she wanted to quit her job. WOULD NOT RECOMMEND TERRIBLE SERVICE read more

No stars!! Horrible customer service!! Ordered 8 meals, left one out, when called about it was told will make it but took hour and half to get meal!! Spent over 100$ and when went there to see about making this right was yelled at and told he had so many meals to make yesterday and could not shut down to fix my order.. know that I gave them 3 hours to make all orders... read more

So we were in the area because our son was playing a Cooperstown Allstar Village. Since we were here I figured we might as well check out as many local spots as possible. I'm so happy we found Nick's. As you can see we came back not only for breakfast, but for their lunch menu as well. You have to come check it out. The portions are huge and easy enough for two people to share. They are well priced. The place is pretty roomy and they even offer outdoor dining. I cannot rant enough about this place. Not one single item that We tried was not delicious. I love the country fried steak I'm a sucker for comfort food. My entire family enjoyed our meals here. The service is quick and friendly. It's only located a few minutes away from Cooperstown Allstar Village. So if you're looking for a spot when in the area come check it out. It will not disappoint you. There is plenty of parking but sometimes it can be a little tricky when it's rush-hour. But you can always park across the street and walk over. The location is easy to find and right off the main road. The menu here is as large as their portions so don't be scared to try a few things and share. I enjoyed every bite!!!!! If I'm ever in the area again I know where I'm going! read more

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The food was delicious and the staff was very attentive. The portions are huge. Definitely one of the best meatball sandwiches I've ever had. read more