
Address and Contact Information
Address: 6541 W 119th St, Overland Park, KS 66209
Phone: (913) 217-7807
Website: http://www.nicoanas.com/
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Reviews
There is a great outdoor seating area for warmer evenings.
Shout out to our attentive server Jim!
Food:
Better last time than this time. I did the Italian Feast both times. Great food, just that this time the sauce was a bit runnier, and lasagna didn’t have as much flavor. I also got a shrimp ravioli in there somehow, which would have been a huge problem for someone with a shellfish allergy, but I like shrimp so it was okay. Salad and bread are great additions. Marsala was really good too.
Service:
He came by just frequently enough to make sure we weren’t uncomfortable. Food took a little long, but again, busy and new menu.
Atmosphere:
It’s very basic, but they make it work. I like the wall decor and the open kitchen is a definate change from normal italian. It’s different and has that East Coast Italian vibe in it somewhere.
Overall good. I went ahead and errored on the side of 5/5, but would probably be a 4-4.5 for the price point. Mainly, I boost them for trying and being a class act in a difficult time. Seems to run well.
We were seated at 1pm by a very polite waiter and moments later received a basket with toasted chips, toasted bread and a dipping dish of olive oil, herbs and cheese. The toasted bread and chips were served at room temperature which isn’t a crime but feels like an afterthought since they were toasted. The homemade chips actually tasted surprisingly not good and cold toasted bread is meh at best. The cheese was your garden variety powdered/grated shake-on cheese which again is ok-ish since the restaurant has very reasonable prices but I was hoping for value and not lesser quality. That’s on me. From there, our orders were taken and shortly thereafter, we received our Caesar salads and they were fine and had real cheese!
From that point on, other than being happy to share time with my wife, things got culinarily worse. After another 35 minutes with the restaurant barely half occupied, I commented to my wife that something must be wrong since the wait was long and the restaurant wasn’t very busy. I surmised they might be having a cooking staff issue and that one of us was going to have hot food and the other cold.
Unfortunately I’m a pretty good guesser. After an additional 10 minutes, we received our main courses. She ordered Nico’s Fettuccine with grilled shrimp and I chose Pollo Alla Marsala. My order was hot and her order was room temp. I don’t care how tasty her order could have been, cool congealing Alfredo cheese sauce on noodles rarely tastes good and the room temperature shrimp added nothing to the taste buds. Sending back a congealed cheese dish with shrimp would not go well to reheat and we didn’t have enough patience to wait out another 45 minutes to remake it.
Ok, so hers was disappointing but at least I got the hot dish, …right? Selfish thoughts aside, you would think a dish named Pollo Alla Marsala would have a marsala wine flavor. It didn’t have even a hint of wine flavor. It really tasted like a very bland Asian brown sauce with plenty of cornstarch thickener and not even the presence of a splash of marsala. Again not an easy fix so my wife ate her cold shrimp and I ate my hot chicken so that we could leave not feeling hungry.
At the end of the day, I’m a well below average chef but an excellent cook, especially at reheating and fixing texture and flavor issues so we packaged up the remains and headed home without a complaint short of this review since our waiter was sufficient and we couldn’t deal with those who occupied the kitchen. I really hope it wasn’t Nico or Ana.
We had a group of 7 with 2 kids (10 & under) and had no trouble getting seated on a Thursday evening for dinner.
We had the mixed toasted ravioli (beef & cheese) and arancini appetizers. The marinara caper cream sauce that the toasted ravs came in was unlike anything we had ever had. Fair number of pescatarian and vegetarian options, too. One person in our party had a Veggie Piada (think Italian burrito/sandwich wrap) and said it was delicious. I sampled the kids’ fettuccine Alfredo and it was seriously some of the best I’ve ever had – rich and creamy without being too heavy or garlicky.