This just proves that I shouldn't review restaurants based on only one experience. I usually don't like to review a restaurant without having eaten multiple dishes, but during my last trip to Nicky's, my friend was just as disappointed as I was, so I figured I might as well. I stopped in again today again. The chicken noodle soup that came with lunch was delicious and the red curry was exactly how I like red curry - creamy and well-seasoned. There was enough rice that I used up all of the remaining curry sauce, and there was a nice variety of vegetables in the curry. There could have been more chicken... I think I found about 5 pieces.
And it's a good deal. I think lunch came out to $9ish plus tip and was a pretty generous portion (except for the chicken). I may come back, but I am seldom downtown.
I'm really on the fence as to whether give Nicky's a 3 or a 4, because Pad See Ew is the food that I would choose to eat if required to pick one food for the rest of my life and Nicky's had really sugary Pad See Ew. I think that the service was good enough to bring it up to a 4. On a busy weekday, it took 20 minutes for them to seat me, take my order, and bring me my food.