Nik’s Pizza & Restaurant

A year ago I would’ve given 4 stars. The food is good… Just hope for a good waitress. We used to go weekly for dinner but the new wait staff has deterred us. We haven’t been in a few months. Not many choices around Kenly and its worth a visit if you’ve never been.

Not fancy– but delicious food. Pizza buffet was available when we stopped by for Sunday evening dinner. The pizza was very good and they had several varieties available for such a small place. My husband had the gyro sandwich and declared it one of the best he’d had in a long time. The eggplant Parmesan was nice and hot– I would have preferred a thicker piece of eggplant though and a little less sauce. Definitely worth stopping by if you find yourself hungry on I-​95.

Great little pizza joint just off the 95 exit. Family owned into the 2^nd generation.
Dan use to eat here when he was in Kenly on business.
Handmade crust and tasty cheese (you’ve had rubbery, flavorless cheese on pizza, right?).
I had the buffet for lunch. Basic (but clean) salad offerings and a bunch of pizza flavors, handmade soup or spaghetti.

This is the wrong location. Do not go here you will end up in a field in the middle of nowhere. Very disappointed.

That have great pizza. It’s thin, a bit floppy and a little greasy just the way it should be. I don’t know what kind of cheese they use but it’s fantastic! Medium double cheese it’s the way to go. They have really good Pork Suvlaki and cucumber tziki sauce is good on everything. Get extra.

3.5 stars for an option that’s outside of the «chain restaurant» box just off I-​95. The wife and I stopped by the Kenly 95 Petro on the way back home from our Charleston vacation, and we just weren’t feeling the food court fast-​food or nearby options. As we normally do in these situations, we whipped out our Unilocal … but few of the nearby places had reviews, so we rolled the dice on Nik’s.
The restaurant was mostly empty, but it was «off hours» — around 3PM. Still, they looked to be doing a decent take-​out volume — mostly of their pizza, which looked quite good. Service was generally polite and proficient, but with a touch of Carolina flair, if you get my drift. My wife ordered a chicken parm sandwich and a side of fries, since the sandwiches came with chips only. I ordered a Greek platter — a mix of gyro meat and souvlaki, which came with french fries and a trip to the salad bar instead of the customary Greek salad.
I had some concerns when I went to the salad bar and the waitress had to tell the chef what was on the Greek platter. But the salad bar was nice. It was more of a standard small Southern mom and pop restaurant salad bar than Greek salad bar, but the ingredients were fresh with some nice variety. When our meal came the server did forget the side of fries that my wife ordered but we didn’t complain because my gyro platter was huge, including the portion of fries. They were the soft, thick cut steak fries … not my preference and not fresh, but they were pretty good. My Greek Platter was really nice except for one issue — the pita it came with was cut up into small triangle wedges, making it impossible to making anything other than a bite-​sized gyro. But the gyro meat and souvlaki were tasty. My wife had no complaints with her chicken parm.
The Kenly area is a common pit-​stop on I-​95 because of their multiple truck stops and quick-​serve restaurants just off the interstate. But if you’re looking for something that’s a bit outside of the box, Nik’s is a solid small-​town pizza and subs joint and worth a shot.

Best choice in Kenly for pizza, burgers, sandwiches, greek food, etc. Good friendly service.
A good non chain stop for highway travelers.