Papa Nick's Pasta & Pizza

4940 Fruitville Rd, Sarasota
(941) 377-4753

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Mark S

Server never brought my daughter the crayons she said she would. No refill on the bread, oversalted Mediterranean pasta.Overall meh. Alfredo was quite good.

Syd Krawczyk

For many years now Papa Nicks has consistently served great pizza, pasta, and cold beer! I love their Eggplant Parmesan. A great local place that we all need to support.

David Hardinger

We love the pizza and all the pasta dishes, friendly staff and always consistent, which we find very refreshing, our go to pizza place.

Kathy Taylor

Was passing thru and looked Papa Nick's on Google maps, boy am I glad I did, ordered the calzone, it was Amazing!!! Deliver all around the country and have had calmness from ID to ME and California to FL, and must say, it was the best I've ever had, will be back.

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waitresses even spoke Italian so I was excepting this to be authentic or at least decent. Got a small pizza and it was literally microwaveable crust. Tasted like something I’d buy frozen at Walmart, waitresses were kind though. Sorry to say pretty much everything I ate was mediocre at best.

Mark Thomas

The Fruitville Rd. location is a favorite of ours, even before when they were in the old fast food location on Beneva Rd.The staff is always friendly and will joke around with you. Not your typical aloof waitstaff. I got chastised if I showed up without my then 6 year old. (That lasted for about 4 years.) Now that he's a teenager, they don't even recognize him.The food is always top quality and servings are good-sized. Dessert prices, like everywhere else, are a bit high but you make tiramisu at home if you want. Plenty of specials and the calzones are huge. We love it.And the fresh, hot bread with every meal? So good.Plenty of room for the wheelchair & walker crowd to get around, the aisles are very wide.

Brandy Decker

This is a super cute place to eat but out off 4 orders 3 were wrong and our drinks were very empty before being replaced. My partner asked for no mushrooms on his pizza and it was full of them. My friend asked for Alfredo and got marinara sauce, then I asked for extra olives on my salad and got three. So the food was good but wrong.

Samuel Campese

Went for late lunch, and the place was packed. Only problem 1 waitress. We felt bad for her in this no-win situation. We tuffed it out. Pasta dishes were good. Pizza needs work.

aPancake1

Very nice basic Italian food. Helpful and quick service. Wine by the glass. Menu varied. Great cheesecake. Easy to park. Takes reservations

Tom Middleton

Excellent food as always but service left much to be desired.

Melissa Marino

Great service terrible food. Was really hoping to find a good local,casual dining place. My daughter had the chicken lemon soup. It look like beige vomit and had zero seasoning or flavor. The zucchini fritters we OK but tiny and the sauce was too thick to dip and delicate fritter in.The entrees were worse. Pesto pasta was extremely oily and definitely not fresh pesto. My husbands pasta trio looked thrown together and undercooked.I didn’t even eat my chicken piccata. Chicken was somehow dry on the outside and undercooked outside. The pasta and sauce was really gross. Did not taste fresh at all. I ate like three bites and they didn’t even take it off my bill. Just gave me a discount. 75$ and a nice tip later. I’m glad I didn’t eat though bc a few hours later my daughter And husband were puking

Renna Stutzman

A true hidden gem! Better than the large chain restaurants!The staff is friendly and helpful!We even went back to eat here again because it was so good!

Jayni Morris (Everyone Likes My Dad)

We had a table of 8 on a aunday night and it was too much for the staff. The back room was unpleasantly freezing. The appetizers did not arrive timely nor all the salads at the same time. There was no vegetarian soup offered.I had higher hopes for the eggplant parmigiana but prep can't be skipped..... it was a bit tough and too much cheese. I was confused if the menu was Greek or Italian. Perhaps the Greek food is better. Not much praise for the other entrees except the mushroom ravioli sauce was delicious.

Casey Williamson

First timer. Ordered pizza, ravioli which came with a side salad and bread. Staff friendly. Patrons funny. Food delicious. Will be back.

Laurel Stephens

Papa Nick's is a great littlle neighborhood restaurant to drop in for lunch or dinner and have some delicious Italian food -- like their Stromboli. We eat there often and have always found it to be clean and to have plenty of seating. They have a big menu, friendly, efficient waitstaff and reasonable prices.

Kid-friendliness: There are booster seats and high chairs available. There's nothing there that would be inappropriate for kids.

Parking: Parking is on a level asphalt surface directly in front of the restaurant with handicap parking availble. Parking spaces are of adequate size.

Wheelchair accessibility: The surfaces are level on one floor and doorways are wide enough to accommodate a wheelchair.

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