Nico & Ana's

6541 W 119th St, Leawood
(913) 217-7807

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Kay Rolofson

Sign on the door 2/16 stated it is closed permanently????

Dave

First time. Food to sauce ratio impeccable

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Chuck P

Otherwise very good reviews so please don’t base your decisions on this one review. Unfortunately me and my wife’s first and last impressions were on Valentine’s Day for lunch.

We were seated at 1pm by a very polite waiter and moments later received a basket with toasted chips, toasted bread and a dipping dish of olive oil, herbs and cheese. The toasted bread and chips were served at room temperature which isn’t a crime but feels like an afterthought since they were toasted. The homemade chips actually tasted surprisingly not good and cold toasted bread is meh at best. The cheese was your garden variety powdered/grated shake-on cheese which again is ok-ish since the restaurant has very reasonable prices but I was hoping for value and not lesser quality. That’s on me. From there, our orders were taken and shortly thereafter, we received our Caesar salads and they were fine and had real cheese!

From that point on, other than being happy to share time with my wife, things got culinarily worse. After another 35 minutes with the restaurant barely half occupied, I commented to my wife that something must be wrong since the wait was long and the restaurant wasn’t very busy. I surmised they might be having a cooking staff issue and that one of us was going to have hot food and the other cold.

Unfortunately I’m a pretty good guesser. After an additional 10 minutes, we received our main courses. She ordered Nico’s Fettuccine with grilled shrimp and I chose Pollo Alla Marsala. My order was hot and her order was room temp. I don’t care how tasty her order could have been, cool congealing Alfredo cheese sauce on noodles rarely tastes good and the room temperature shrimp added nothing to the taste buds. Sending back a congealed cheese dish with shrimp would not go well to reheat and we didn’t have enough patience to wait out another 45 minutes to remake it.

Ok, so hers was disappointing but at least I got the hot dish, …right? Selfish thoughts aside, you would think a dish named Pollo Alla Marsala would have a marsala wine flavor. It didn’t have even a hint of wine flavor. It really tasted like a very bland Asian brown sauce with plenty of cornstarch thickener and not even the presence of a splash of marsala. Again not an easy fix so my wife ate her cold shrimp and I ate my hot chicken so that we could leave not feeling hungry.

At the end of the day, I’m a well below average chef but an excellent cook, especially at reheating and fixing texture and flavor issues so we packaged up the remains and headed home without a complaint short of this review since our waiter was sufficient and we couldn’t deal with those who occupied the kitchen. I really hope it wasn’t Nico or Ana.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 1

Service: 5

Chris Campbell

The food was good, but the service was SLOW. The food took forever. Hopefully they were just short staffed in the kitchen. I'll try coming again, but if the slow kitchen repeats I'll lower the rating. I don't complain often, but when the food takes 40 minutes ? That's slow.

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 4

Service: 2

Sarah Hatch

3:35 Ordered for delivery at 6:45. They cancelled the order at 630 saying they couldn't get to it

Service: 1

John Cole

Food is delicious and service is awesome!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Jenifer Hermann

What a gem of a place! I'd love to show pictures, but we devoured our meal! Everything is homemade-pasta, salad dressing and bread. We WILL be back!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Gigi Belmonico

SO DELICIOUS!!!! I've eaten LOTS of great Italian food in my life, and Nico & Ana's was AMAZING!! It's one of my favorite places to eat in the metro!! Amazing food, large portions, great service and something for everyone!!🥰 XOXOGigi

Mark Evans

I ordered the eggplant parmesan sandwich. It was a little undercooked.

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 3

Service: 4

Jerry Weinstock

I had the lasagna and my wife had the ziti. We both liked our meals but I would have liked mine at a warmer temperature it didn't quite melt in you mouth. The house salads that came with the entre was a nice add.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 4

Service: 5

Carrie Stull

Love this place! They sponsored our HS football team so decided to try them out. This is now one of our fav go to spots. Service and food are amazing. We also ordered a tray of lasagna for carryout so we could watch the last Chiefs game and it was delicious!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

JinChen Li

Good food, service, and price. Will come often

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Vicki Baker

1st time here thru DoorDash.
Amazing Chicken Piccata and Carbonara.
My husband and I are both chefs-we were so blown away by the presentation and quality of the meals.
We will definitely be ordering from here again and soon!

Food: 5

Stuart Gillam

First time here, and it definitely won't be the last! We came to celebrate my completion of my Bachelor's Degree and we had heard good things. The service was top notch, our waiter had great recommendations. This will easily replace any chain Itslian restaurant in our rotation.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

David Ingram

Everything was delicious! The service was wonderful!

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 5

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