Papa Nick’s Pizza & Pasta

This is a good option for delivery pizza with a savory sauce and chewy crust.
Normally we’re Angelo’s Pizza people, but you get sick of eating the same take-​out pizza all the time, right? Plus, while I enjoy Angelo’s, it’s rare that I like bakery-​style, deep dish pie like that with sweet sauce. Also, the past few times we’ve been the last stop on their delivery route. And you know what that means? Luke-​warm, congealed cheese pizza. Yuck. I know they’re trying to save time, but I want hot pizza.
Papa Nick’s helps us with hot delivery pizza because we’re so close. Is it the most amazing pizza I’ve ever had? No. But it’s a better delivery option for us, as stated above.
One thing I’m not a huge fan of though is how much more expensive Papa Nick’s is compared to Angelo’s. I believe there is a delivery fee, as well.

Great BBQ chicken pizza! Thin crust that was cooked really well. Small family owned joint with really nice service. Would order or dine in again.

Food is good. Service is not good at all. One server for a jam packed place!
They give huge portions too so you get what you pay for.
Two recommendation, when its 80 degrees outside turn on the air! It was a heat fill tiny space with lots of bodies! Ease up on the sauce on the dishes and pizza.

Ordered pizza over the phone for pick up, I had just moved to lakewood and was told this is the spot to grab a good pie. When I went to pick it up all the workers were just sitting around talking or smoke outside. I asked to pick up my order and they had no clue what I was looking to pick up. They had to scurry around to find the lady who took the order only to find out shit missplaced the order and it was never even made. Mistakes happen but I will not order from them again.

The pizza is fantastic. The ingredients are always fresh. I have never had a bad experience. Plus, they have a wide range of delivery! Great news for this west parker. 5stars, every time

The bread sticks were awesome. The pizza was good, but had a bit too much sauce. My friend liked the buffalo chicken wrap.

One of the best pizzas in the Cleveland area in my opinion. Love the crust on their pizza and the sauce is soooooo tasty. Love this pizza. Only wish they would build a larger dining area.

I have been in the area for 6 years and the pizzas were usually hit or miss. Sometimes they are too greasy and the cheese slides right off the slice and the sauce is watered down.
Instead of getting a pepperoni and banana pepper medium pizza, I just got it without the pepperoni and I notice there are new employee’s. The sauce taste incredibly better, wasn’t as greasy (maybe due to holding the pepperoni) and it wasn’t watered down at all.
Was the best tasting pizza I ate from there in awhile.

Not the worst pizza I’ve ever had.

Had a coupon for a small pizza if I bought a large. Would not recommend Papa Nicks Pizza. The other items on the menu may be good, but I will never know, based on the pizza. Crust was marginal, and the pizza price was as much as Angelo’s in Lakewood, save your money and go Angelo’s or elsewhere and get a pizza pie!

First thing first… They Deliver!!! Ordered pizza here for the first time last night and was semi-​impressed. I was super excited that they delivered, cause I didn’t want chain pizza and wanted to try something new. We ordered a large sausage, onion, green pepper pizza and came to our door piping hot! The pizza was kinda on the thin side. Only downfall was it was kinda burnt on the bottom. Definitely will give it another try!

We only ate here because my parents had frequented this shop when they were first married. I’m extremely disappointed we didn’t keep driving a little further to Melt! Their pizza is just ok. If you live close and want something to eat, I would check it out, I wouldn’t go out of my way to go here though. I wouldn’t ever go out of my way to eat here again, but if I had to eat here I wouldn’t be too upset either. It was just ok.
Our waitress was very friendly, they have an interesting pop selection, the place was pretty clean. The bathroom is in a slightly creepy basement.

I dont usually review pizza places (or italian places for that matter). To me pizza is a vessel to cram as much filler in my body either before or after drinking. I have gotten here about 5 times now and I have to say I really like it as far as pizza goes! You can tell the sauce has been cooked for a while and all the flavors have been condenced. Cheese is super good too. The crust is a tad thicker than I like. Having lived in NYC I know what pizza should be… nice and thin. This is a mix between thin NY style and that thick, bullcrap cassserole style Chicago calls pizza. They always have coupons in the All Around Town book and Entertainment book too. I will be trying more stuff soon enough. I havnt tried delivery I just pick it up. I see Unilocalers complain about delivery time when they could of just got off their asses and went and picked it up. Its like waiting in a line for coffe and doughnuts in the morning when the line is a mile long and inside the store is empty. But thats ‘Murica for ya. This place also sells beer and has dope lunch specials for what I see on the flyers. So, throw on your track suit, pinky ring and come get yer Deigo on!

Had some not so great meals here over the years since my initial review, but today’s meal reinforced my rating. I was usually in this hood after midnight and the de facto food option was always Gepetto’s (Nick’s being closed to night owls). They have since demolished Gepetto’s and Nick’s again rules the Clifton roost (conspiracy?).
Today me and the pooch ventured out for Arby’s and I thought, you know what I bet Nick’s makes a cheesesteak of some sort. They do, and it’s pretty good. Came with au jus and fries for the price some shitty Arby’s would have cost me. Just had to wait ten minutes. Also got a half sheet plain for my veggie wife. While the area is basically a potholed, torn down buildings warzone presently, by the time of the summer Clifton Arts Fest, I see a very attractive area coming to life. And Nick’s will hold it down like they have for decades.

I do not want to consider myself a Pizza connoisseur but I LOVE PIZZA! When I had moved to Lakewood a friend of mine got me a gift certificate as a welcome to Lakewood present.
I decided to order it in one night when I wanted to stay in and was told if I ever got it I had to get the Nix Sticks. So I got an order of those and then just a small pepperoni pizza. When I got it delivered the box by Nix Sticks came in was bigger than my pizza so I was interested to see what my friend had got me into.
The first bite was heavenly! They are not your normal bread stick but more of a pizza crust stick. They are some of the best bread sticks I have ever had!
Then I moved onto a piece of the pizza. It was just eh to me. I didn’t really enjoy the sauce on the pizza and they barely put any pepperoni on it (unlike this picture I am staring at below while I right this?). I can’t decide if the sauce was tasteless or bad but I didn’t want to eat any more of it. I had one small slice, wasn’t thrilled and went back to the Nix Sticks.

This place is a little slice of white trash pasta heaven. Park in the small lot behind it, and you’re likely to see some of the methed-​out waitresses from the Tic Toc Tavern next door hanging out, downing suspicious beverages. If you like a little Keno and weak 70s rock with your pizza and pasta, this is your place.
Papa Nick’s is a tiny, dingy joint, and most of the time when we eat there, the place seems to have 1 – 2 other tables of people who seem to be related to the owner in some way. Service can be quite appalling. I’ve never seen the same waitress twice. It’s like they go out of their way to hire the dumbest women available. For example, tonight, our waitress brought my husband’s breadsticks (which were burned, by the way) out on a large pizza pan, the kind that actually goes into the oven. The thing was bigger than our table. Did you not have any clean plates, lady? And bringing us boxes for our leftovers was a fiasco (three trips, all offering numerous boxes of different sizes).
That all being said, Papa Nick’s does have some great-​tasting food, and meals are served in huge portions that will probably take you 2 – 3 days to eat. If that freaks you out, some of the meals are available in half-​portions (very smart). I don’t know if the pasta is homemade, but it tastes homemade. Prices could stand to come down a tad, given the area and look of the place. I think we will do carry-​out from now on! We only go back because it’s the only decent Italian place in the Lakewood area.

This was my first time at Papa Nick’s. I had lunch with a girlfriend who grew up in the neighborhood and thought that I would enjoy this place. I must say, I did enjoy my lunch. The place is small & cozy. We were warmly greeted upon entering and chose a window seat. We both ordered pasta meals which comes with salad and homemade italian bread w/​butter. I ordered the rigatoni with mushroom sauce ($ 7.00) and italian sausage (+$ 1.50). The house salad consisted of lettuce, slightly spicy whole pepper, pepperoni and lots of fresh mozzarella cheese. I opted for the house dressing, which was tangy and very flavorful. The pasta was cooked perfectly and the sauce, mushrooms and sausage, paired perfectly. The serving was more than ample, I boxed more than ½ to take home (probably ate more bread than I should have:-). All in all, this was a great meal and I would definitely go back.

We grabbed a pizza to bring home from Papa Nick’s.
We put in our order and then walked over to Big Fun.
Our pizza was ready for us when we were ready
and the people working were pretty nice.
We ordered a pepperoni pizza with mushrooms,
some wings and a salad.
The salad was good, it was a nice companion with the pizza.
The pizza was also good, everything was up to standards.
Big floppy greasy pieces of pizza,
nice and cheesy, a good balance of pepperoni and mushrooms.
The sauce and crust are standard, nothing remarkable.

I’m not sure what grossed me out more: the pasty, tasteless red sauce or the pasty, tasteless middle aged couple humping at the table next to me.
I really love that this place has been here for some 30 years, but boy oh boy could the food be better. At least the staff was friendly.

Weekday lunch at Papa Nick’s. The dining room is small, but it wasn’t at all crowded. The pepperoni and mushroom pizza was pretty good and the 8 slices (medium, I think) was plenty enough for two hungry diners. Good sauce and a generous layer of pepperoni to boot. I am by no means a pizza aficionado, but the pizza was better than the major national chains, so that’s at least one threshold passed in my book.
The really great thing was that I made it there, had a leisurely lunch, and got back to downtown in about an hour thanks to the quick service. Downsides? I’m not crazy about getting Coke in a can when I’m eating out.