A fave spot for us, great location, fresh seafood, great staff, but the best is the live music! The combo playing Saturday 6/23 was top notch!
Nico’s is located at the Honolulu Fish Market, opposite the Nimitz Centre. It’s easy to reach from Waikiki, by catching the #19 or #20 bus. As you’d expect, the fish is super fresh ... and the cooking is pretty good to. There’s a big selection on the menu. You choose what you want, and pay, and they give you a beeoer toalert you when the food is ready. Then you find a table, inside or out, and wait till the beeper goes off. Meanwhile, soft drinks are available, with a bottomless cup deal. Prices are reasonable. I found the food good. Nico’s is worth the trip.
I went to Nico's Pier 38 to try the poke that everyone talks about. I went to the Fish Market because I needed Poke to go. Lots of choices for Poke. I had the Ultimate Poke over Brown Rice and it didn't disappoint. Fresh with lots of flavor. Try it, very delicious.
Beautiful location and amazing service!
Highlights:
My group was seated outside as the sun was setting, making for beautiful views.
I did not think I would find a location with crab cakes that rivaled those found at Chart House, but Nico's Crab Cake Burger proved me wrong! Definitely worth it!
One thing I would say needs improvement is the chairs used for the outdoor seating. They're too large/deep, but adding cushions may make them more comfortable and not as awkward to sit in.
Overall a great experience; I will be back again!
Great affordable food and live music with friendly service. Can even leave with a souvenir t-shirt! It looks to me that it is built into a fish 🐟 market so seafood is fresh fresh fresh!!!
Oh my, this restaurant well worth the stop. Food was awesome. Drinks were strange but we tried most of them. Parking a little tricky but it is there if you look. They don’t start the dinner menu till 5pm but they have appetizers and drinks prior to that. So eat drink and be merry!! The server was top notch. He was very friendly and very helpful. We had the Marlin.
Great food. Highly recommend the Fisherman’s Stew and Grilled Peppercorn Swordfish.
Portions are generous.
Reasonable price.
Great service.
Good ambience with live music.
Found out about Nico's Pier 38 from a local after a swimming with the turtles excursion. Probably one of the best Poke I've ever eaten.. So fresh. We ended returning on our last day to eat again. The toppings are fantastic. Would highly recommend. We heard Tamishiro market gets their fish from here. After you buy your Poke, you can go into the dining area to eat. You can also order drinks from the bar.
5 stars 🌟
Can’t get any fresher than Nico’s, situated right at the pier where the boats come in with their catches! They offer an extensive menu to sample their local take on fresh catches of the day - don’t miss the dessert selection either in their chill case!
There’s lots of parking, with the prime spots along the road in front of the restaurant. There’s also an unpaved parking lot next to the road, although it can get full depending on how many tourists are on island.
After parking, you pick up a menu then go to the register to order and pay. You’ll be given a buzzer that tells you that order is ready, then you can seat yourselves at the table of your choice. It can get pretty crowded at lunch, so be prepared to wait if you’re. Ok’ing at peak hours.
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We joined great local friends last night at Nico's Pier 38. They chose the restaurant and as it turns out, I believe that this is the same restaurant that I saw years ago on a Places to eat show on the Good Network or Travel Channel or something like that. When it first opened it was a very casual restaurant serving food in styrofoam containers. Today, it looks more upscale casual and open air. Last night there was live entertainment, a Grammy award winning singer George Kuo and he was outstanding. Beautiful guitar player and singer with a brilliant and colorful Hawaiian sound.
For dinner we shared calamari ($16), Poke Sampler ($23.50) as appetizers. We ordered Grilled Peppercorn Swordfish-Green peppercorn and five herb marinated grilled swordfish topped with sauce vierge. Served with garlic mashed potatoes and house vegetables ($26) and Furikake Pan-Seared Ahi - Fresh tuna ahi steak coated with Japanese dried seaweed and sesame seeds. Served with your choice of rice and house vegetables with our famous ginger garlic cilantro dip ($26). I had never had Swordfish before and this was a very tasty and flaky culinary creation. The calamari was prepared well and perfect. The Poke Sampler was really really good and large enough to share or to just have as a meal. The Ahi was also very tasty and prepared nicely.
For dessert we ordered a very tasty and light cheesecake....so very good. They have a case of desserts that you can pick up to go also that I passed on the way to the restroom and I think I would love to try several more desserts.
Service was as attentive as we wanted and needed, the restaurant is dog friendly as there were several families with dogs dining around us. This is a nice restaurant and nice casual attire is very welcomed. We highly recommend Nico's Pier 38. Mahalo to our wonderful friends who treated us to this amazing food and drink experience.
Im known on google for my honest reviews and here is another one. The food was very fresh and the fish was juicy and great. This place gets pretty busy so be prepared. Definitely worth going and trying and this place gets my approval. I will rate 4/5 for this place only because of 1 thing I really disliked. From maybe more than 10 thousand restaurants I've been to this place was the only place that charges 50cent extra for fountain drink refills. I don't think its a good business practice and most people don't drink more than 1 anyway but I really disliked this and have not seen even 1 restaurant in 10 thousand that I've been doing this. Otherwise Definitely recommend this place.
Saturday evening was decently crowded. We had a wait of 20 mins. We were then quickly seated at the outdoor tables.
The service was alright. For appetizers, we had the fish bites and it felt like a mixed batch of fresh and frozen/older fish pieces were served on our plate. Not impressed. The lomi tomatoes were quite tasty though.
We also had the crab cake burger with fries and it was delicious! The fries were hot 'n enjoyable!
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