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| - Pretty much your typical Americanized Thai restaurant with a fairly lengthy menu and the typical fare of popular curries, stir fries, soups, and salads. While nothing I tried here was mindblowing or very original, it would be unfair to say it didn't hit the spot for my (perpetual) Thai craving.
Nicky's was packed both with clientele and narrow-aisled rows of tables on a Saturday night. Despite how busy it was, service was quick and attentive for our party of 5. Our server spent quite a bit of time answering our questions about spiciness levels and whatnot and was super patient with us, despite probably having heard our same requests thousands of times. My jasmine tea was lovely. Our food came out surprisingly quickly at all, first my VEGETABLE TOM YUM SOUP, and then my BROCCOLI entree and my fiance's BEEF PAD PHET entree.
My soup was packed with veggies, which was great, but lacked a depth of flavor that I usually take for granted in typically in this pleasantly super sour and umami dish. My broccoli stir fry, however, was wonderfully seasoned and slightly sweet, and I regret absolutely nothing about it. My fiance's stir fry was much more one-noted as mine. Not untasty, but just not that exciting either. I also tried a bite of my friend's GREEN CURRY, which was coconutty and sweet but fell a bit flat otherwise as well. Having spent a year living in Thailand and as a lover of the cuisine, she was not impressed.
The biggest disappointment, however, was that nothing was as spicy as we wanted it to be. Our server had tried to talk our table of chili heads out of ordering anything higher than a 7, but my soup at an 8 had nothing spicy going for it besides a few chili flakes on top, and my entree was more sweet than anything else. The pad phet was the only dish that turned out slightly spicy, but we considered it much more of a 6 or 7 than the 10 we had ordered. We ended up asking for the condiment caddy to take matters into our own hands, which vastly improved the matter. I feel like the condiments would find a welcome home on every table to begin with. When she gave us the check, our server told us they have a spice level 20...would have been good to know. It's totes understandable that spiciness levels are completely subjective and hard to gauge or recommend, but if you get customers asking for fire, don't hold back.
So long story short, Nicky's suffers from the typical popular Americanized Thai restaurant ailment--lots of potential, but it doesn't dare to be Thai enough. Please, bring on the heat and the fish sauce. Some, if maybe not all, customers are ready and willing. Besides that, everything I ate was totally satisfactory and I would order it again--if I came back, that is. But with Smiling Banana Leaf being much less afraid to drop umami bombs, I'm not sure if that will happen anytime soon.
And a tip for the proprietors: update your online menu! It's missing an entire vegetarian section and a bunch of awesome sounding dishes. Please and thanks.
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