Nick the Tailor

Great place. Gets the job done at the price needed.
Nick as recently passed so Abe a good friend of his has taken over.
Should give the place a ring before stopping by.
There’s a gigantic mirror, and 2 fitting rooms. That’s all you need.
It’s not sketchy, it’s chinatown.
If you want to pay top dollar to go to a fancy location go somewhere else, if you want to pay a fair price for an amazing tailoring job then this is the place.
Amazing.

Nick is a very skilled, polite man. He isn’t as expensive as a lot of other tailors in the area. I’ve mostly gone to him for dress alterations and pant hemming. Because of his location and price, I go to him almost exclusively now for my tailoring needs.
Today I went in to pick up a pair of pants. He saw one of the buttons on my trench coat was a little bit loose, and he offered to fix it on the spot for free.

The Guy: Nick is a great guy. Definitely give him that.
The Shop: Dark, old, but I’m not there for ambiance. So it’s fine.
The Cost: $ 20 to shorten the straps on my dress. My dress was sequence, but I thought that was a little too much just for straps.
The Job: When I put it on again, I noticed that the straps should have been pulled wider because the back of my dress popped out a bit when I put it on.
The BooHoo: The sequence on my dress seemed like they were falling off… and i checked before I gave them to him to make sure everything was in tact so that I don’t wrongfully blame anyone for my own mistake… UGH.
Bottom Line: I will not go back for straps. Maybe just hemming for pants. 3 stars for being a nice guy.

From the outside I wasn’t sure that I wanted to go in, but circumstances made going in worth the risk.
The story was pretty simple. I started work on June 1^st and the luggage that had my work clothes in them had yet to arrive. With a suit and an array of shirts I was short on pants for my new job. After making a few purchases on Sunday night I scoured downtown area for a tailor open on memorial day. Nick was open.
Once on the inside I realized that Nick might well be a master tailor. His demeanor and his shop reminded me of the tailors on a PBS documentary on master tailors from Italy. At the very least he did a masterful job hemming my pants and did them as I waited… for only $ 10!

Sketchiest place on earth. There are much cheaper, quicker, and more efficient tailors in Boston. There is no reason to use this place.

Probably one of the sketchiest establishments I’ve ever been in. Not a place you could turn your back on your kids. From the trash in the hallways to metal security gates separating the floors to get to Nick’s the place was not well kept. The scene is very depressing. It raised a lot of red flags for me.
I needed two jeans hemmed and I saw the sign and thought i’d give it a go. The reviews on Unilocal were pretty solid. He charges $ 25 per pair which is fairly high but was in a bind and perhaps he sensed it, whatever.
The hems on the jeans came back poorly sewed together, loose and careless. There was even thread still hanging off the inside of the pants, long enough that it stuck out when I stood up. Just not up to par and completely different than what most of these reviews have said.
I will never go back here.

Nick was terrific. Took about a week to get my suit back and cost $ 85 (very reasonable) but it was well worth it. Definitely a weird area (Chinatown border) and odd location (2^nd floor) but worth the trip just to check out all his signed pictures of not-​quite-​celebs! If he’s good enough for Pavorotti and Matthew Broderick he’s good enough for me! Totally worthwhile.

When you walk through the streets of Chinatown, finally find the building entrance, walk up the sketchy stairs and eventually come to Nick’s door, you realize it was all worth the trek immediately after you walk in. You are transferred into Italy, where Italian men who know their craft work in the back and Nick normally greets you (the sweetest man). These guys really know their stuff and I’ve brought some very expensive items here (hello Calvin Klein dress) because I wanted the job done right. They’ve always come out beautifully because these guys have an attention to detail. I started going to Nick because I was working on a movie and they were taking some pieces there — I knew he must be the best!

My friend had a dress hemmed here, and loved the job he did on it. And best of all, it wasn’t ridiculously expensive. As she described him, he’s a really nice guy and an old school tailor (who obviously knows his stuff).
I went to drop my pants off to be hemmed today, and he’s hilarious…
Nick: Do you have the shoes you want to wear with these jeans?
*I put on my heels*
Nick: Are those comfortable?
me: No…
Nick: I don’t understand why women wear them… they look like torture!
Nick to guy standing next to me: Do you ever even look at a woman’s shoes?
Guy next to me: ummm… all the time?
UPDATE: I picked up my jeans yesterday, and Nick did a fabulous job on them. Oh, he’s such an Italian man. I walked in, and he goes, in his Italian accent (Think of an older version of Luigi), «I gotta say, you are-​a so beautiful» hahaha
I have some more jeans I need altered, buttons that need to be put back on, etc. so I’ll be returning soon! I think I’ve found my new favorite tailor! Not going back to Newbury Street tailors… major rip off.

So sweet, so patient, so helpful.
Nick hemmed a pair of my office pants and now they fit perfectly. He has decades of experience and he is happy to help you look your best.

Nick is great.
Pluses —
Love the 1-​man run shop. Sometimes his son brings him lunch on the weekdays. Completely adorable, old-​town feel of going to the tailor.
Cost efficient — way better than Newbury or the Dry Cleaning shops in Beacon Hill.
Great work — It’s always tailored to the T.
Minuses —
Just the hours — I can’t make it by 5pm to pick up my stuff on weekdays.

Just pretend your grandfather opened a tailor shop in Chinatown after he returned from the Korean War — that’s Nick the Tailor. He has been doing one thing for ages and he does it well. His office is an odd little room where the only thing that has changed is the wall where he puts up 8×10s of the theatre district actors who have paid him a visit (Matthew Broderick amongst them as I recall). He listens carefully to what you want and delivers — turned my $ 11 thrift store find into a well-​fitted $ 400 suit. That man has my business for as long as God sees fit to keep him walking the Earth.

Nick is a great guy. He is kind and efficient, and does quality work. He offers the best value around and was able to get me in and out in the same day for no extra charge! Can’t say the same for the tailors in the Back Bay. Thanks Nick!

This man is the greatest. He’s wonderful and sweet. I’ve only had him hem my pants, but he did a fine job. The only problem is that he’s on the second floor of a kind of run-​down building in Chinatown. But other than that, he’s close, he’s pretty quick, he does a good job on my pants, and I like him.