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| - I made a yelp account specifically to make this review, and I'm sad to say this is something I've been thinking about since my last terrible meal at Nicky's a few months ago. The last time I was there, I had amazing service, but the worst tofu I've ever had in my entire life. My food came out ice cold and when I asked for them to reheat it, it was brought back out piping hot after about 30 seconds and disgustingly hard, having obviously just been microwaved. Tonight, I went for dinner with my boyfriend, on a crowded Tuesday night. After waiting about 20 minutes to hear from a server, we asked for our bottle of wine to be open (new TEN DOLLAR corkage fee). My boyfriend ordered the chili mango tofu and I asked for the tofu noodle soup. I asked that the tofu be fried, because the menu specifically says "fried tofu" and last time I ordered it, it wasn't. The waitress immediately said no it couldn't be fried because they were "busy". I tried asking again nicely and she continued to tell me how they couldn't make the tofu fried because they were "busy right now" and didn't have time. After this ridiculous encounter, we continued to have terrible service throughout the entire meal as the waitress hurried us out of the restaurant. Not only did she give us our check immediately after we finished eating, but then she came back to check and see if we had put our card in about 4 times before we actually were ready.
I used to love this restaurant in the north side and was ecstatic when they opened a location on Penn because I live downtown. I have tried to give them the benefit of the doubt multiple times and to rationalize terrible experiences here. After tonight's meal, I would not recommend Nicky's to anyone, and will not be coming back here.
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