When the moon hits your eyes like a big pizza pie thats Amoreeeee!
This is probably one of my favorite places in Jupiter, FL. I have been going here for about 14 years and I still make an effort to make a visit every week or so to get my fix. A place where families can go for a stomach stuffing dinner, where can see the replica cast of 'Goodfellas' having a mafia meeting, where you can take someone and sit at the bar and order an entire lobster in a bowl to accompany that one...or five glasses of wine.
Nicks Tomato Pie has never dissapointed me. With such generous portions and extensive menu how could they? The restaurant is large and caverous yet elegant and decorated from floor to ceiling in Italian architecture and ambiance. Tomato sauce cans piled high,a statue of Nick himself towers over guests as he bids them to sit down.Pictures of Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin with corntooth smiles look at you while their voices grace the sound system. An Italian expresso machine hides in the corner and steams every few minutes. The smell of fresh bread and garlic diffuses through the restaurant as you see chefs shoving hot dough and pizza in and out of the ovens in the back. I remember as a little girl the chefs would see me peeking over the ledge of the counter to see them make the pizza dough, and they would make me little dough boys to eat and play with while my family waited for our table. Its both literally and figurately such a warm experience at Nicks.
The food. Oh the food! Fantastic fresh ingredients. Cheese, garlic, tomatoes, meat ,vegetables, and spices all conjured differently into a steaming delicious heap on your plate. You feel like an Italian Harry Potter when you dine at Nick's Tomato Pie because the food simply puts a spell on you for days. I know... its a corny joke... but its true. Each table starts off with a hot loaf of Italian bread accompanied with olive oil and roasted cloves of garlic which you mash to your liking and spread onto slices of the bread. This in itself is sometimes enough food to stuff you, but I suggest you don't stop here. Oil spots start to fill your paper tablecloth as you dig into this appetizer. Or as I like to call it, appeTEASER. It teases you for the food to come. I will recommend several dishes on the menu that I have enjoyed on many visits. First Im going to suggest to start off with the house salad. The dressing is so unique. Its tangy, its creamy, and its peppery. I also reccomend the cream of tomato soup if they have it. Usually they only carry it a few times a week but if you happen to get lucky on a day when they serve it, just try it and you'll understand the meaning of life. To this day I still try and replicate the damn recipe but its impossible. Its unspeakably creamy and topped with toasted bread and fresh basil. For a main course I suggest the manicotti, the baked ziti, penne alla vodka (my favorite), any of their signature pizzas. If you are in the mood for pasta, Nick's is great because they have a section of the menu where you can pick a type of noodle and pair it with one of their many sauces. You can never go wrong with their marinara is so fresh tasting. The fra diavolo is a little spicy, the alla vodka which I almost always get forced to order because my brain will slap me if I don't. There's alfredo, primavera and garlic&oil as well. So really, you have many choices to look to over as far as basic pasta.For meatlovers there are dishes like sauage and peppers and veal parmesan, and chicken and seafood dishes like chicken parm and whole main lobster in a bowl. They all come with a small bowl of pasta on the side to further burst your belly at the seems. Ill post a link at the bottom so you can see the entire menu.
I have a feeling that Nick's will remain in Jupiter for a long time to come. People simply flock there and its not very hard to see why. And after you are stuffed and full with a big fat cannoli sticking out of your mouth, you can draw on the paper tablecloths and write CHECK PLEASE.
LINK TO MENU : http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/12/771944/restaurant/Miami/Nicks-Tomato-Pie-Jupiter
