Remembering Nick's Seafood Pavilion

08/19/2024

Everyone loves the salad, I'm going to give you the ingredients:
*it takes a special shake though.

3 parts oil, 1 part vinegar, salt, pepper and oregano....shake them all up in like the vinegar bottle, poke about 5 holes in the vinegar bottle, shake it up and shake it on the salad...

07/22/2024

The River Room .. Nick's menu and chef. Thanks for making history Jimand Ann Krikales JimandAnn Krikales

A video featuring the legendary Duke of York Restaurant at Yorktown Beach in Yorktown, VA. Featuring Chef Jimmy Krikales. The Duke of York offers Breakfast, ...

07/05/2024

https://youtu.be/DTvpap-VQeo?si=SnV-zA_4FS5i2oAP

And almost 50 years later the bath house is still there.... is that the same one?? God Bless Miss Mary.

We take a look back in the WAVY Archives

09/06/2023

https://virginialiving.com/culture/nicks-seafood-in-yorktown/

The unsung legacy of Nick and Mary Mathews. × Expand (Collage by Ryan Olbrysh) When Nick and Mary Mathews met for the first time in 1940, they’d both arrived in Brooklyn from Greece—Nick from the island of Karpathos and Mary, a decade later, from Sparta. Marrying soon after, neither of them cou...

06/27/2023

https://youtu.be/uWx1Nkqh9kw

We take a look back in the WAVY Archives

06/27/2023

So, I've decided the Nick's reunion will be on Monday, September 18th, 2023... That marks 20 years to the day that Nick's has been closed. I have something reserved for about 40 people... if you think there are gonna be way more, get with me and the county, with any luck they will sponsor it.... it's the least they can do... right?

06/03/2023

Thinking of a reunion... and it's for Nick's employees and their families only. Sorry I can't invite everone, we don't have that much room..Thanks miss mary for leaving the beloved restaurant to the county... Enough about that. My grandfather, grandmother, mother, aunts, uncles, cousins were the heart of that restaurant.
Anyone that worked for Nicks ever, comment here. !

03/22/2023

http://recipespy.blogspot.com/2013/06/nicks-seafood-pavilion-lobster-dien.html
It's been made public. Good luck!

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02/17/2023

Hello Nick's loyal patrons.... I understand now, some of you haven't visited Yorktown in a LONG time. Well, I so sorry to deliver such devastating news, Nick's Seafood Pavilion closed down in 2003 after hurricane Isabel struck. Now standing in her place is a parking garage. The restaurant no longer exists in the Duke of York Hotel which has been sold and is now the Yorktown Beach Hotel. There will never be a restaurant inside of the hotel again. If it makes anyone any happier, I found the recipe for Lobster Dien Bien on the web. I'll post it publicly for you fine devoted patrons. I just wanted to throw that out there.... I'm still to this day getting phone calls to reserve a table in the tunnel, and how big are the lobster tails....this is one tradition that I know can never die.

*Posting the menu from 1966

09/04/2022

FYI.... for everyone.. please read this first before you message me...
Nick's Seafood Pavilion was left to York county by Miss Mary Mathews. After she passed away in 1998, Jimmy Krikales was left to run the restaurant like he had always done for the past 40 years. They say it's the hurricane Isabelle that shut it down for good... That is so far from the truth. I was there through it all, when they ran my grandfather, Jimmy out of there.... that hurt me so bad.... and seeing my mom quit after 22 years, it hurt me bad. So now from the grace of God I still have my Grandfather and my Grandmother with me... I lost my mother... in 2014.... It's just a sad time for all of us...