Nichols Pizza-N-Grill

UPDATE TO MY REVIEW OF 2014
The quality of the pizza has definitely taken a turn for the worse. Over the last 2 years we have ordered pizza to be delivered to our home on a fairly regular basis, sometimes they are hot but not very fresh tasting, other times the pizza arrives cold and rather sparse on the toppings. Last night had to be the worst pizza we have ever eaten anywhere! It took 45 minutes to be delivered (ok, if it was a busy night but it was Wednesday and raining how busy can they be?), we ordered a Supreme Deluxe, the crust was soggy and not cooked completely, the onions, bell peppers, olives, mushrooms and pineapple were thrown onto the pizza after the fact and were raw/​uncooked kind of like an after thought. Sorry Nichols but you have lost our business we are going to be going to Nardonne’s for pizza from now on.

This great pizza and beer. Friendly people will great service. Family trendily.

Friendly staff with good, basic food. Nothing fancy or unusual, but I’ve never been disappointed.

Chicken wings got to go… breaded frozen Tyson is not what you want to offer your customers. Get better quality, charge more. Do something… our server Jackson did good but the order took awhile to get out to us.

Love it!
We always order the surfers friend pizza and damn it’s good! Easy pick up or delivery too which is convenient. I love supporting a local business and it’s worth it when their pizza is so dang good! It’s definitely the dough that sets them apart from the chain restaurants — yummy yummy dough!
They have become one of our go-​to places in town for a quick and easy dinner. Although a bit on the higher side for price compared to something like Dominos (expect to pay around $ 25), it’s worth it!

It was just an off night I’m guessing.
And I appreciate the response Darren.
I’ll give you guys another try.

Went here for the first time yesterday to watch some football and have some beers n appetizers. Ordered mozzarella sticks. They arrived and looked great. Not the usual skinny, little ones you can get anywhere. First bite and the cheese inside was ice cold in the middle. I tried another one and the rest were fine. I would have said something but my server never came back until it was time to go. Good atmosphere, poor service.

Absolute trash factory. When it was big daddy’s pizza, they made a quality product. Now with the expense of this new place Darrel paid for, we as the customers get to pay him back by eating food made with lower quality ingredients. It is so obvious that they use lesser ingredients now that it LITERALLY made me puke when I ate it. This place is a glorified polished turd on its best days. Total tourist trap, looks nice, but tastes like a homeless man’s urine scrapped off of the dumpster out back and served in a used diaper. DON’T DO IT! NOT WORTH!
***Update***
Nothing personal to the owner, I wish them well in future endeavors, just don’t make your loyal long time customers suffer.

Overall, I really like the food at Nichols. They have great pastas and sandwiches, and the cheesy bread is to die for, and so is the tiramisu. I wouldn’t bother with the garlic bread though, it wasn’t particularly garlicky or buttery, and a bit too crisp around the edges.
~*Update at the bottom*~
Now to explain why it only gets 2 stars from me. There are 2 ways to make me absolutely love a restaurant, and those are to offer delivery services, and to offer order online services. Nichols supposedly offers both. Now I’ve got no issues with the delivery service, they’re on time, and don’t get weird about the dog (she’s a great dane, most delivery guys get nervous about how big she is, even though she’s really sweet tempered). The problem I have is with their supposed order online service. If they didn’t offer the service at all, I would give them 4 stars, but because they offer it and it is a horrific, frustrating, drawn-​out process that only works once out of every ten tries for me and tends to discourage me from getting food at all, they only get 2 stars. It only works on computers, not on smartphones or tablets. The menu offers no pictures of the food items, instead everything has the nickel Nichols symbol where, intuitively, a picture would be. When you just view the menu, every item has a «Order Now» button on it. Every time I attempt to start an order without logging in I get a «No data, handling error» message and it doesn’t start the order. If I log in, it lets me start the order, add all of the items, but then it goes Hotel California on me and won’t let me check out. It asks a second time for my address for delivery, but with fields that would be applicable in not-​a-​house situations, or where there’s a gate code involved, and refuses to let me move on from there. My roommate has no problem getting through the order process on her computer, but on both my laptops, and my desktop at work, I run into the above stated issues. Additionally, their website where this «order online» service is, doesn’t have their phone number on it, I have to go through Unilocal or Google to find it and call in an order. Usually, I get too frustrated and angry with the order online service to bother digging up their phone number and actually ordering food from them and end up ordering from another restaurant.
~*UPDATE*~
So, the owner messaged me when updates had been rolled out for the online order service, and though it still has a few issues, it works now! He was really nice about the whole thing, and I definitely recommend giving Nichol’s a try.

Haven’t had a bad dish yet, always great service and plenty to choose from on tap! They are accommodating in all areas from the vegan in you to the carnivorous beast I am! Also I appreciate their rotating draft selection because I find it a bit mundane drinking the same beers over and over so I often discover something new I like, don’t get me wrong they don’t have an overwhelming selection but certainly one to accommodate anyone at any given time. It is a well rounded environment suitable for any occasion from a group of children after a sporting event to a nice evening with you partner or just a family night out. Great lunch options also. I have to admit I was skeptical when this place first opened up, but now I am a regular and super stoke we finally have something like this in our little town called Los Osos. Good job Nicholas. Oh and did I mention their food is excellent!

Gluten Free pizza that takes great! GLUTEN FREE!!! In my 15 years being gluten free, this is my favorite gf pizza. Most gf pizza is like cardboard.