Nicky’s On The Bay

Essentially, you’re paying for the view here.
Decent spot to stop by on your way home from the beach for a beer and some food. Steep prices, and food is just OK. Nothing spectacular by all means.
Came on a Sunday early-​evening and there was an hour wait for 6 people. Service was surprisingly swift. People in my group enjoyed their fried seafood and mussels in white sauce, but the oysters were not so great. Drinks varied from being strong to incredibly weak… not consistent among bartenders.
I had a cheeseburger (not a huge seafood person myself) and it tasted good. Cooked medium as requested. However about an hour later I had terrible stomach cramps. I could barely move on the car ride back to NYC, I was in so much discomfort. No doubt from the burger. Felt like mild food poisoning which was SO unfortunate. Should have ordered chicken fingers :(

You definitely can’t beat the view and the outside deck. But this place was very over priced for just getting fried food and burgers. The menu that was online was not offered due to a busy weekend which resulted in them running out of the food on the online menu. I would go for happy hour but wouldn’t waste my money on the food.

Stopped for Father’s Day dinner and was on the fence based on the reviews. Wait was under half hour which is reasonable for a holiday. Food was delicious and the halibut was AMAZING. Waitress was great. View was beautiful… watched the boats go back and forth. We will be back!

We came here for Father’s Day weekend.
Of course it was crowded, but it took about 30 minutes to get a table. That’s not too bad.
We sat outside which was right on a canal used by pleasure boats and the Fire Island ferry service, so that was nice.
It took quite a while to get out the entrees, but the server did stop by our table two times to check on us.
When the food came, the portions were relatively generous but mediocre in quality.
The main issue was that the prices were disproportionate and excessive relative to the quality of food.

Looking for Our Server
My husband and I were at the new location. Wednesday night the inside dinning room was nearly empty. There was no shortage of staff. A party of three were seated at a table in front of ours. The search for there waiter was a constant event. A. number of waiters passed their table. in addition they spoke to the hostess. None of the available servers did anything to assist The experience of the food and drinks they ordered at Nicky’s could not have been worse. My own experience fair service and food way over priced. Nice view, but that only can have you overlook so much. Nicky’s is a pass.

Attempted to have dinner and drinks here the other day. We arrived around 5pm, place was empty as it was a Monday. We sat at the bar to have a beer first and check out the menu. We sat for a few minutes until the female bartender decided to stop bickering with a co-​worker to help us. There was only two other customers sitting at the bar and maybe 6 tables of guests scattered between the outside and inside. Bartender was not very friendly. She gave us our beers, walked away without asking if we wanted to see a menu. Came back ten minutes later and asked if we wanted to open a tab or to «just pay now.» We decided to just pay for our two beers. It took her about 10 minutes to take our money while she continued to talk with about 10 other staff members that were all just standing around doing nothing. Finally a young man came behind the bar to get something, I had to say «excuse me?» 2 – 3 times before he acknowledged me. I asked him to see a menu, which he provided. We looked over the menu for about 5 minutes as our bartender just stood next to us preparing her juice mixers to our left while chatting with all of their wait staff that was still standing around doing nothing. We closed the menu in front of us as we were going to order an appetizer. We were almost done with our beer and our bartender did not even ask if we wanted to order food or if we wanted another beer. We decided to leave and go to Fatfish across the lot, which was AMAZING.
We walked around outside the table area and the food that people were eating did not even look appetizing. Not to mention we were reading reviews online as we drank our beer, which did not entice us to want to stay and eat here. I would not go here again.
The only person that was friendly was a young girl, who I think was the hostess, that was feeding a duck outside. The waterfront views of course, were nice, but the staff was not welcoming or attentive at all. A lot of people standing around doing nothing while the place was not even busy and nobody was attentive to us at all.

I suggested Nicky’s to fiends for my birthday lunch yesterday. The location and atmosphere can’t be beat. I’ve been to Nicky’s in past years for lunch, dinner, drinks, small groups, big groups and have never been disappointed. Two of our three lunch selections yesterday were not up to Nicky’s standards as I’ve experienced and we did bring it to the waitresses attention. She was very apologetic and passed out concerns in to Nicky who quickly came over to talk to us. He was surprised as these were ‘his two most popular menus items’ and very apologetic. When the bill arrives we saw that he had taken both items off the bill, which we would expect. So… One unfavorable experience is not enough for me to cross Nicky’s off my list. I will return and hopefully this experience and some of the recent not-​so-​favorable reviews are just ‘season opening kinks’ that will be worked out

Went there last night. I don’t eat meat so I ordered sides of sauteed vegetables and a salad. The veggies were perfectly cooked and seasoned and the salad was beaitiful and delicious. The other order was steamed lobster, which my relative said was great! Our waitress Sabrina was fabulous! Great atmosphere… tables were not all on top of each other and the view is magnificent! Eat here, you will not be disappointed!

I hosted a retirement party for a colleague at Nicky’s and it was outstanding! Nick and his staff were accommodating to my Type A (AKA pain in the ass) personality. I originally planned for my party to be on the roof top, however, the weather would not cooperate. Nick called me hours before the party and advised me that the weather was not conducive to an outdoor party, and he was right. He arranged for accommodations in the main dining room and he offered the use of the gorgeous roof top deck if the weather cleared up. I brought in my own entertainment and Nick was extremely accommodating with him as well. He said, «we will make it work, and it will be beautiful» and he was right, The food was AMAZING, and the staff was professional. Everyone at my party was happy, and so was I. I would not hesitate to book a party at Nicky’s on the Bay in the future. Thank you Nicky’s!!!

The food here was awful. I was expecting so much since the atmosphere was great, and we were here for lunch on Memorial Day, but our experience here was less than stellar.
I do hope that they’d hire a new cook/​chef as it seems like they do the their bar fried food really well (our wings were awesome!), it was just everything else that fell flat. Actually, I take that back — the wings and the cold beer were the only redeeming qualities of this place. Our calamari was incredibly limp and soggy (cold oil perhaps?) that it just felt gross in my mouth.
Manhattan Clam Chowder had no discernible clams, it was really a vegetable soup with big pieces of unexpected bacon. Tough chewy bacon, not even good bacon! My tuna tacos were laughably bad. When you hear raw ahi tuna on a fresh corn tortilla aren’t you expecting that, not some mayonnaise drizzled concoction on what can only be described as an El Paso Taco shell from the supermarket? It also lacked all seasoning and needed a liberal dosage of salt for any flavor.
Husband had the fried shrimp platter, so there were literally 8 shrimp on the plate with a giant mound of fries. For like $ 26. One of our friends had the pork chops and it was pretty good — except it was served with what tasted like caramel that you would drizzle over a sundae that had us all scratching our heads on why it was served with the pork chops.
We couldn’t seem to keep our water glasses refilled and just kept asking them to leave a pitcher, but I just went thirsty. And they had maybe 6 – 8 tables filled! It was mostly empty. I finally started refilling my glass with the water I had in my bag because I was so thirsty.
Basically, come here for the great atmosphere, beer and wings — and don’t order anything else because it’s not good. And we spent over $ 60 per person for our laughably bad meal.

My new hangout for summer 2016. Great location, food is great, service was good. Place is huge too so you’re not sitting on top of each other. Indoor/​outdoor seating (plenty of ot door seating might I add). Went here with my husband to have lunch and drinks for our first time and we ended up staying for 4 – 5 hours. We love it here! Can’t wait to go back

Husband and I were looking for somewhere to enjoy the beautiful day near the water. Nicky’s location is superb and the food was okay. I only gave 2 stars because the service was HORRIBLE! Waited at least 10 minutes for anyone to acknowledge us or ask what we would like to drink. Received bread but I needed to get up and get utensils from another table. I needed to ask 3 times before I received a glass of water. We would have liked a cup of coffee, but we decided against it because we knew by the time the waiter got to us, it would be another ½ hour.

Came by for lunch with my cousin and daughter we all got the pina coladas which are one of the best drinks there. Mussels and baked clams were amazing and finished off with salads that were huge and refreshing! Great place to go for nice lunch on the water to hit the beach after

Wiw. Yes great view but food is horrible. Had lobster bisque. Came out bubblegum pink. Inedible, sent it back. Ordered Manhattan Clam Chowder. Weird chorizo taste. Husband could stomach it. Flatbread with balsamic reduction, cheap goat cheese, terrible crust.
Don’t come for the food. Good margaritas. Nice view. Don’t come hungry. Service was very good. Nice help.

Had stuff shrimp! The worst! I am not into bleach flavored shrimp!
My son had fried shrimp. same complaint.
For these over priced dinners! You guys should be ashamed!
Local family that will not return! Sad!

We went yesterday afternoon for a late lunch. There were 6 adults, 2 kids and 1 10 month old. We knew that the first really nice warm sunny Sunday that the place would be busy and we were ok with that. We were given the option to sit outside and there would be over an hour wait or we could sit inside and be seated immediately. We choose to sit inside. The waitress Heather was very nice came and took our drink order. She questioned what a French Martini was. We told her and she was fine. Our drinks came to us staggered. About 15 mins later she came an took our order. Most of us order full meals but 2 of the adults ordered 4 appetizers for our meals. We explained what we wanted first. We also requested that the kids food be sent out first.
So we asked for bread for the 10 month old to keep him busy and it took 3 or 4 times asking for her to bring it. We watched a table of 4 next to us with the same waitress get a huge basket of bread when we finally got it it was 2 pieces. The waitress never really come to ask about drinks we had to search her down. I know it was busy. I get it. I was in the business but she never came back. After an hour when we finally asked about our appetizers, she was shocked when we said we did not get them. We did have other tables food brought to our table but it was nothing that we ordered.
At this time, I went to go talk to a manager. I did not get his name, but he was tall about 5 foot 11 inches, light colored hair and had on a blue and green horizontal stripped shirt. I asked him about our food and he said he would check. It still took about 15 more minutes but appetizers did come out. Still no kids food. We asked for everything else to come out right after.
About 20 minutes after out meals came out. When the food came out, all the dirty dishes were still on the table. They cleared and served. The waitress did come back a couple of times to ask us if everything was ok.
During the time that we were waiting for the food, the manager was reprimanding our waitress in front of the customers by the computer station. I understand she was overwhelmed but this should not have been done in the front of the house. Instead of reprimanding her, you could have come over to our table helped bus or take a drink order.
We were just very disappointed with the whole experience. We went to Nickys a few times last season and enjoyed every minute. We have not had a good taste to the start of the season. When we received the bill we were hoping for some compensation. I mean we were seated at 1:45 and left at 5:00. The manager did not take off one drink or anything.
Just very disappointed in what we experienced and not sure if we will be going back,

Amazing service. Scenery… Great blue Long Islands… Had a great time but food is ok.

Went here last night (a summer Saturday) and had a wonderful time! The wait was an hour, but that was expected, so we went up for drinks on the rooftop where a band was playing some really fun covers! There is a bar up there, but it is cash only, so make sure you are prepared!
It is such a beautiful place on the rooftop, in the enclosed dining area, and on the patio/​deck. You can see the Island ferries go by and the food was great as well.
Two complaints… The BATHROOMS! Or let me say one bathroom. Woman’s bathroom had 3 stalls, so there was always a line and the Men’s had 1 stall and 2 urinals. For a place that large they need more bathroom access! Next was that the servers kept asking to take our plates away while we were still eating. I will never understand this in restaurants.
Overall a great experience… especially with such beautiful weather and a full moon to look at while sitting on the dock benches post dinner! :)

Could not wait till Nicky’s reopened. Place is beautiful. The top deck is great overlooking the canal you can enjoy a nice cocktail on the rooftop and listen to the sound of the band of choice that plays on Friday nights. The new seating areas outside as well as the half enclosed outside seating as well is beautiful. They where serving limited menu this weekend. We did call ahead and waited about 20 minutes to a half hour which was not bad at all it went quickly. Once seated the service was fast and friendly and the food was just as good as it always was. Raw bar and sushi grade tuna steaks where delicious .
Looking forward to coming back again soon job well don’t place is stunning !

I’ve been here so many times for drinks and seafood with friends! Sunsets are amazing, seafood is fresh & delicious! You just want to go there to relax and have fabulous time! Cheerio to Summer !!!