?> {"id":1070,"date":"2009-08-02T21:45:30","date_gmt":"2009-08-03T01:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.twofatbellies.com\/?p=1070"},"modified":"2009-09-13T22:01:13","modified_gmt":"2009-09-14T02:01:13","slug":"big-nicks-pizza-burger-joint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twofatbellies.com\/2009\/08\/big-nicks-pizza-burger-joint\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Nick’s Pizza & Burger Joint"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since Amadeus Pizza was such a bust<\/a> the last time, Josh and I continued on our quest for finding the best go-to pizza place. This time I perused delivery.com and found a 20% coupon for Big Nick\u2019s Pizza & Burger Joint. We got our standard order of a large cheese pie, a chicken parm hero, and garlic knots.<\/p>\n

Everything arrived hot, which was a huge plus. The pizza looked a little disheveled as a result of being transported, but it was appropriately browned, not like the pale pie Amadeus sent us.<\/p>\n

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\"A

A slight disheveled pizza<\/p><\/div>\n

Josh and I had differing opinions about Big Nick\u2019s pizza. He thought the crust was too thick, a big no-no for him. I thought the crust was a bit thicker than most but it was far from a pan pizza, and it had a nice crunch to it. I also really liked the sauce, which had a lot of herbs mixed into it that gave it more flavor. While not amazing, I thought this was a pretty decent pie.<\/p>\n

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\"Underside

Underside shot<\/p><\/div>\n

The chicken parm on the other hand was pretty gross. I don\u2019t know if they served it on a whole wheat roll (which was an option, but I didn\u2019t select that option) but the bread just tasted weird. It definitely had a wheat flavor and was way too sweet. The flavor of the roll clashed with the flavors of the chicken parmesan. They also wrapped the sandwich in a way that all the cheese stuck to the foil and pulled off when I tried to open it. It was just a bad version overall.<\/p>\n

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\"A

A pretty bad chicken parm sandwich<\/p><\/div>\n

The garlic knots were also just eh. They were a bit cold and stale and didn\u2019t pack much of a garlic punch.<\/p>\n

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\"Just

Just ok garlic knots<\/p><\/div>\n

The overall verdict for Big Nick\u2019s Pizza? Thumbs down. While I enjoyed the pizza, it was not so spectacular that it overcame the faults of its chicken parm hero and garlic knots. Josh didn\u2019t like the pizza because he hated the thicker crust, so basically this was a no-brainer. However, we didn\u2019t try the \u201cBurger Joint\u201d part of Big Nick\u2019s, so maybe we\u2019ll stop by there one day to check out their massive list of burger offerings. But as for the pizza, our quest continues and we\u2019ll be ordering in from a new place next time.<\/p>\n

Big Nick\u2019s Pizza & Burger Joint
\n<\/a>70 West 71<\/em>st<\/em><\/sup> St. at Columbus Ave.
\nNew York, NY<\/em><\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Since Amadeus Pizza was such a bust the last time, Josh and I continued on our quest for finding the best go-to pizza place. This time I perused delivery.com and found a 20% coupon for Big Nick\u2019s Pizza & Burger Joint. We got our standard order of a large cheese pie, a chicken parm hero, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[23,40,7,22],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twofatbellies.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twofatbellies.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twofatbellies.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twofatbellies.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twofatbellies.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1070"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.twofatbellies.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1075,"href":"https:\/\/www.twofatbellies.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070\/revisions\/1075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twofatbellies.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twofatbellies.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twofatbellies.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}