"Got together with another couple to catch up and have a good authentic Greek dinner. I used to eat lunch here about once a month when I worked in the area. After spending an afternoon in the City, we walked to Uncle Nick 's for a 7 pm reservation. We started with the Saganaki Tiri (flaming cheese appetizer a must have! , plus the Inopikilia for the table. My one friend wanted the grilled octopus appetizer, but when we saw that octopus came on the Inopikilia platter, we went for that instead. The platter contained octopus (tiny, tiny pieces maybe 8 small tidbits , sausage, keftedakia (meatballs , tzatziki, tarama, scordalia, pita bread, olives, feta, pepperoncini, tomatoes, and cucumbers. Every item on the platter was delicious, except we didn 't quite care for the scordalia. My friend who wanted octopus was very disappointed in the tiny scraps on the platter. For entrees we had spanakopita (very ordinary , pastitsio (delicious , roast lamb shank special (good, but mostly fat and not much meat , and the seafood combo (delicious which had shrimp, mussels, calamari and scallops tossed with orzo in a tomato, white wine, garlic, and scallion sauce. Again, as with the octopus on the Inopikilia, my scallops appeared to be about 3 scallops cut into quarters and scattered through the orzo. We ordered (and drank two carafes of the red house wine which was fine. For dessert we had two orders of baklava, and one order of the famous rice pudding. The rice pudding lived up to the hype, and the baklava is about 6 inches tall and very, very sweet. One portion is enough for 4 to share. Live and learn. I would say that only one in our party found the food okay , and we all agreed that some ingredients (octopus, scallops were barely present in our food. Our waitress (Evi? was exceptional, friendly, and attentive even though she was just finishing up two very large parties. I will continue to recommend Uncle Nick 's."
Briam
