Nicholas Restaurant

Nicholas Restaurant is a middle eastern restaurant Buckman Portland located in United States.

8 / 10
217
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  • Phone

    (503) 235-5123

  • Website

    nicholasrestaurant.com

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  • Type

    Middle Eastern Restaurant

Address

318 SE Grand Ave (SE Pine St) Portland , OR 97214 United States

Reservations No
Credit Cards Yes (incl. MasterCard)
Outdoor Seating Yes
Menus Lunch, Dinner
Drinks Cocktails

Comments / 67


Keywords:

lively mezza platters Turkish coffee lentil soup casual great value BYOB gluten-free food peach juice good service good for dates salads Lebanese chicken crowded pita eggplant bread lunch beef
Robert Leary

Best Lebanese food around. Great service. Fair prices . Small location is charming and always busy. It is old and could use an update - just not to the food!

Taner A

The bread and appetizers were very tasty! I tried salmon kabob bowl, replaced salad with rice and it was just perfect! Need to come here more often!

Lindsey Hughes

Anything you order here is fantastic. I recommend for first timers getting the mezza platters (meat, vegetarian , or vegan ) to sample things.

Larry Williams

Order hummus with the bread . My favs include veggie mezza , lamb platter , and salmon kebabs .

dj clint kuper

Been coming here since '95. Def not the cheap hole in the wall secret it used to be. Pretty expensive but food is tops. Best lentil soup I've ever had! Great falafel . Tons of veg options !

Ashley Bowles

Portions are huge. Plan on sharing! The mezzas are very filling.

Harsimran Benipal

Service was very nice. Our server Rene was good..he took off an item from our order when we didn't like it .. Food was good mostly .. Lebanese pizza was good .. Falafel tasted homemade and amazing

Steve C

Veggie Mezza is awesome. It's a great way to try many things on the menu, and huge.

Ritika

Arabian mezza is pretty unique...serving sizes are huge and filling...loved all their mezzas

Faith Xu

Sooo delicious. Get the Stephens beef plate and the date drink. Portions are huge for both!

Chelsea Otakan

One of my favorite dinner spots in Portland, perhaps the world. Fresh baked pita the size of a sleeping bag!

Evan Johnson

Pita was great! Try the Meat Meza - a sampler.

Basmah R

just had lunch there, the bread is fantastic and the hummus amazing. I got the kafta kabab w/ rice have SO much leftover for lunch tomorrow

Arun Sudhindra

The food here is absolutely delicious! Lovely setting, the baklava here is from another planet

Jason K

Everything on the menu is great. Under no circumstances order the Lebanese merlot . Get the baklava .

Kate Tuzova

Highly recommended! Humus and rise are must no matter what kind of meat goes with it.

Clement Chiang

Love their Lamb Platter ! Don't forget to order the Humus .

Tanya Jain

Get the toum (with pita ) if you like garlic . It's a must-have and out of this world!! This place is simply amazing!!! I loved loved the food, ALL of it!

Valerie Huffman

The toum is addictive... So amazing and fresh. I love the baba as well .

Maurizio Leo

Meat mezza all the way. Hummus and felafel are amazing. Be ready to eat a lot.

Chefs Feed

Gregory Denton, chef of Ox, eats here on his nights off. He loves the Vegetarian mezze platter . Read more

Krys Ronquillo

Everything on the menu is awesome. Hummus is definitely a must. I also love the lamb platter .

David Shren

Great hummus . Shwarma is not so awesome. Salad is heavy. Tons of food for the price

Daniel Turner

Gluten free pita ! And it's amazing!

Irfan Kerawalla

Had the meat mezza . Flavors are good. Chicken pie was tasty. Lamb wasn't cooked well

Marie Mew

Meat mezza plate is awesome! Amazing tzatziki !

Cassandra Dunn

While everything is good here, trust the menu and order the lentils and rice ! It sounds boring, but the description on the menu doesn't lie.

Rachel Skaarup

SO delicious! Make sure you save room for baklava and turkish coffee

Noel Puente

The humus and the lentils soup are great

Katya

The mezza platters are the best!

Abhishek M

Good food - big portions . Liked the pita bread + hummus . Saffron rice was too oily though.

Drew Tyson

Huge portions . Get falafel delight and Turkish coffee .

Sasha Antman

This place is waaaaay overrated. It's decent but nothing special. I don't get why people rave about it. Must be the giant bread gimmick. There is so much better middle eastern food in this town .

Katya

It's all about the mezza platters .

Peter Lieverdink

Delicious everything. Watch out for the dripping aircon on the way in and out.

Brooke Bonanomi

Yumm!! The meat mezza was great :)

Sam C

Everything is GOOD even the staff .

Jökull Sólberg Auðunsson

Lunch ! Good value paleo bowls.

Noha Z.

U have to order the freekah !

Katya

Arabian Breeze mezza + tabouli = perfect

Jessi Pearson

Try the veggies sandwich combo, it's enough food for two... big sandwich , hummus and pita , salad , chips , all delicious! Read more

Tim Zimmerman

The Turkish coffee & vegetarian mezzo platter are sublime.

Dani Jaques

Omg- so so so good!!! Try the toum.

Scott B

No booze. Cramped space. Order take out and enjoy byob at home! Great food.

Mandy Brown

Amazing everything! Been going there for over 10 years!

Louise Demetre

Bread hot out of the brick oven

Charm B. Trippin

Indiana Jones was wrong, he should have looked for the Temple of TOUM.

Austen Rustrum

Love LOVE Stephen's chicken platter . And the Hummus is the best in Portland!

Allyse

They now accept atm cards but this location doesn't serve alcohol . I Recommend the lamb platter !

Kari

Probably the best hummus I've ever had.

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