Nico

Dinner on a Saturday night.
Antipasto platter very good, pasta and veal dishes superb.
Limited wine choices by the glass, so consider bringing your own bottle, for a 20 corkage fee.
Above average service in a small family feel restaurant.
Only complaint is virtually non existent parking. I noticed that Mezzo down the street offers valet service… we will try it next time.

Nico’s was recommended by one of the ladies in my dining group. It did not disappoint.
I strongly recommend both of the appetizer plates. I judge Italian restaurants by their veal and Nico’s is excellent.
We were a party of 12 and the staff went out of their way to make our night special.
If you are looking for a wonderful experience
GO TO NICO’S !!!

Magnifico. The food was excellent. I had a dinner and app special. App was an Italian take on a spring roll. It reminded me of fried ravioli on a bed of tomato sauce and greens. The main course was a giant played of meat. Braised short rib stuffed with an egg with meatballs, Italian sausage, tomato sauce all on top of ravioli. It was deliciously carnivorous. The service was not just good, it was perfectly timed and just the right amount of involved. My drink was never empty and I never felt like I was being hustled for a better tip. My waiter even saw that I was using my phone (I was by myself) and gave me the wifi password. I feel like normally I would hear to ask. I will eat at Nico again next time I’m in Windsor if not again before I leave.

Came here on a Thursday night, was expecting a crowd and made reservations. However, when we arrived the place was virtually empty. The dining hall is fairly small but cozy and décor was that of old fashioned charm.
My boyfriend had the tagliatelle alla bolognese which was absolutely delicious! It had broad noodles cooked with lamb along with pork and beef meatsauce. Other than being slightly salty, it was fantastic. Noodles were perfectly cooked and the sauce tasted bold, and the flavors were complimented eachother perfectly.
I had the stuffed chicken breast which was also very tasty. The portions are fairly large, we both took home boxes of leftovers.
The service was fast and very friendly. Our waiter was very attentive and quickly responsive to requests.
This experience was pleasantly surprising and I will definitely come back here again!

We have eaten many times. The service is great. Marco is helpful and spot on with his suggestions. Nico is a fantastic chef who manages to surprise us each time with creative, honest food that keeps us coming back! The prices are more than fair considering the quality of the food. One of the best dining experiences in the region.

Nico’s is pricey but you get your money’s worth. The portions are extremely generous, ingredients so fresh i feel like seafood will jump out of my paella which is delicious-​paella that is not the fact that seafood can jump. This windsor gem is about quality not number of patrons

Wonderful food and service, great ambience in a small setting… Well worth a trip across the border!

My favorite restaurant on Erie St. period. I come here once a year on our wedding anniversary and it’s a special treat every time. It is pricey but you get top quality service and food. Recently had the arancini in pesto sauce and that was amazing. The antipasto de mare is to die for. The gnocchi is hand made and a guilty pleasure. Been to all the restaurants on Erie… and this to me is the best Windsor has to offer.

Absolutely and incredibly amazing, Nico’s is easily my favorite Italian restaurant.
My family has been going to Nico’s for years and it’s well worth the trip across the border from Detroit. Their food is incredible — like in-​cred-​i-​ble — and the service is fantastic. Everything I’ve eaten there has been amazing, but I usually veer towards their seafood pasta dishes and they’re always filled with lots of seafood. I also love their Caesar salad and calamari appetizer.
My big tip is to make a reservation. The restaurant is relatively small and they can’t always accommodate walk-​ins.

One of the great things about Windsor is that you don’t just go out for Italian. What *region* do you crave? Calabria? Abruzzi? Toscana? Windsor can accommodate. At Nico, they even list the regional origins of the chefs on their website.
Nico does a mix of regional specialties. One week there might be a Ligurian offering, then Roman the next. The menu changes frequently, but some of the dishes are available regularly, such as the pappardelle Bolognese, which is quite good. The seafood dishes are done particularly well.
The wine list includes a wide selection from all over, including Essex County. Prices are quite reasonable with most glasses around $ 7-​$ 8 and lots of bottles under $ 50.
Seating options include tables and a long banquette. The service is very professional, which is to be expected when the staff are long-​time employees. All seating is in one room.

Excellent. That’s what this place was. Well, the pasta was what sealed the deal for 5 stars for me. The rest was good, but the pasta outweighed the rest at Nico.
What’s funny is we drove in to Windsor just for the evening from the Detroit suburbs and expected the area to be lively. Frankly we were disappointed when the whole area seemed pretty much dead. We drove around and drove around and couldn’t really find anything that looked promising. The other thing is, our phone signals were like low and mobile Unilocal searches weren’t working too well. Plus then it switched to the Canadian service, and I didn’t want to pay extra, so we were left to the means of old tourists. Just drive around and take a chance. We must be the luckiest people around to have driven down just the right street and randomly stopped at the right restaurant because it looked crowded.
We got the Insalata Caprese and it was fine. Not my favorite appetizer to order, but that’s what my friend wanted to get. What was really good was the bread that comes with it. It comes pre-​dipped in olive oil and sprinkled with some herbs. It was yum.
For the entrée I got the Rigatoni al’Amatriciana. I asked to substitute whole wheat pasta for the rigatoni and they accommodated. This has got to be the most delicious pasta I’ve ever had. Well, definitely one of the best for sure. It says spicy tomato sauce and it sure was spicy. I loved it. The portion is pretty big and I could not finish to matter how much I tried. Basically my 5-​stars mostly comes from this pasta dish.
For dessert I got the cheesecake which was just OK. They didn’t have like normal cheesecake; it was peanut butter flavor, which I ordered knowing it was probably not going to be great. I love cheesecake, but plain is just unbeatable.
The service was great. The server was very attentive — we got more bread as soon as what we had was finished. I would say, maybe he should’ve come back to ask about drinks or what not — more towards the end.

Nico is a charming trattoria located in Windsor’s «Little Italy», Erie Street. Nico was one of my Uncle’s favorite restaurants and I think Nico came through in spades for my family when we held a reception there after my Uncle’s funeral.
The service was impeccable and the food was absolutely delicious. When we arrived, there were plates of antipasti and bruschetta waiting on all of the tables. That was followed in succession by family style bowls of the most succulent mussels steamed in a white wine pomodoro, ziti with a tomato and eggplant sauce, platters of veal cutlets sautéed with mushrooms and herbs, grilled salmon with grilled zucchini and peppers and finished with the Italian equivalent of a chocolate bombe glacee.
The wine flowed, toasts were made, memories were recounted and tears were shed and it felt like we were eating in a family dining room. It doesn’t get much better than this.

After years of hearing about Windsor, I finally got a chance to see this mysterious place that is just across the river from Detroit. I was in town for a wedding recently, and for an adventure, my girlfriend’s family suggested we grab dinner at an Italian place called Nico’s.
Situated on Erie street, Nico’s is on a drag occupied by a bunch of Italian restaurants. Clearly, Italian is what this neighborhood specializes in. Upon arrival, we were quickly seated in their cozy dining room. To start, we shared some mussels and calamari… both excellent. For my main dish, I ordered the seafood linguini, which is one of my old standby dishes when eating Italian. Without qualification, this was the best seafood linguini I have ever had. All future seafood linguini dishes I have will be measured against this one.
After a leisurely after dinner coffee, we wrapped up, stopped by the Duty Free to pick up some cheap liquor, were questioned briefly by the border patrol/​customs, and hit the road for the burbs. Hopefully I will be back some day.

They don’t get five stars simply because the service is impossibly slow. The servers are probably the most friendly you’ll ever meet… which is good because they’ll keep you there for about three hours.
Awesome, awesome, awesome bread plate served with quality olive oil and herbs. Immediately reminded me of the bread served in Italy. I could have eaten 5 of those plates as my meal and would have been quite content.
Insalata Caprese: 5÷5− Oh heaven. A pile of thin-​sliced traditional Italian prosciutto atop a bed of marinated grape tomatoes and buffalo mozzarella. The saltiness of the prosciutto and the smooth richness of the mozzarella created magic in my mouth.
Rigatoni al’Amatriciana (Pasta in a spicy tomato sauce with guanciale, red onion and freshly grated pecorino romano cheese): 4÷5− This was the BF’s dish. Again, it held perfectly true to a dish you’d find in Italy. We were disappointed by the lack of guanciale, but the flavors were still astounding. All sauces should taste like this.
Gnocchi Quattro Formaggi (Potato dumplings in a gorgonzola, asiago, mozzarella and parmesan cream): 5÷5− I felt my arteries closing as I ate this dish. The gnocchi were PERFECT. No exaggeration, they actually melted in my mouth. Very, very few restaurants make proper gnocchi. This dish was almost too rich to finish… almost.
Other notes…
Thee servers here are very friendly, but they’re in no rush. Be prepared to wait a long time before placing your order… and an even longer time to get your bill at the end of the meal. We were seriously here for about 2 hours.
They are VERY generous with wine pours. I think they give a full eight ounces. And a glass is only about $ 7. So get one.
The dining room is very tiny, so make reservations. Even at 8pm, the place was packed.
Take the time to go here. It’s worth it.

I went to Nico based on the many recommendations I found on the web. I visited Windsor recently to spend a day at the casino and was looking for a nice place to take my wife out to dinner that evening. Nico’s is a very short distance from the casino and from the U.S. border. Upon arriving at the restaurant, we were warmly greeted and were impressed by the interior. We started off our meal with a plate of mussels that were very good. For our entrée, my wife and I both ordered the Taglitelle Frutti di Mare. At least that’s what the menu on their website currently calls it. It seems it was called something else when I was there like Linguine alla Nico, but I may be wrong. Whatever the case, it’s a seafood pasta in an olive oil sauce with garlic and tomato and the seafood consisted of shrimp, squid, scallops, and mussels. It too was very good. Everything else on the menu sounded so good, but we were in the mood for seafood and both had to go for the same thing. Overall, I was very happy with my choice for dinner that night and would not hesitate to visit here again.