Anyone miss Nikos on Broadway?

severely. Friendly atmosphere healthy food -- an easy place to get together with family, but also a place you could have a lunch meeting with a picky spa-style Californian in.

Can't think of anything to replace it.

ali r.

Riversider and ali : Agree.

Briami, Imam Biyaldi, Gigante Beans, Florida Pompano in Skara, Lahonsolata, Kataifi.
Lots of good dishes. Some I learned to make myself.

Niko's was my favorite restaurant in the area. Great early bird, and I loved the outside porch area.
Haven't found a replacement. Anyone??

DINNER TONIGHT AT RIVERSIDER'S!
I'll stop to shop for the ingredients.

LOL! Truth, Do you know anything about Greek wine?

>outside porch area.

Funny, I always thought of that as a place for insane New Yorkers to eat bus fumes while tripping passersby!

Riversider: Spent lots of time on Santori!

Boss - how true of all the "outdoor" dining in New York. And now the city will sell "popup" cafe spots IN THE STREET" for $10,000 a year. So now New Yorkers can eat bus fumes AND hope they don't get run over by cars while they're eating.

Yes, I'm not big on eating outside in Manhattan either.
So, we go to eat at Rivvie's with the windows open.

You too; goao.

The "outside" porch area was actually enclosed. The retsina was not the real thing. Can't find the Achaia Clauss (sp?) retsina anymore. Demestica is still available, I think red and white.
So what is this "Rivvie's", Truth?

I ate there a number of times with a friend who lives nearby. It always seemed
very busy. My inference is that his lease expired and he wasnt willing to pay the
new asking rent. A lot of old-time restaurants are closing in Manhattan for that
reason.

The restaurants and stores that made the character of the West Side are basically gone. Hells kitchen is a reasonable facsimile

If you watch old Seinfeld, I think it looks more like Hells Kitchen than the Upper West.

i only watch the new seinfeld.

>i only watch the new seinfeld.

Good for you.

gao: That's Riversider's new dinner-party.
He cooks for us, I shop for the ingredients.

Check "Crush" wine store. If they don't carry it, they can usually order it for you.

sounds great.

two chances to be poisoned.

Columbiacounty, why not aplogize for your racist anti-Asian statements before?

At least Big Nicks is still there. It has/had the same owner, and in my opinion, is much more of a neighborhood icon than Nikos, though Nikos was a nice place.