Nick's Italian Pizza

Nick’s Italian Pizza is a weekday-lunch pizzeria on Minnesota Avenue in downtown Kansas City, Kansas — open 10:30 to 4, Monday through Friday, and closed weekends, which tells you its customers are the courthouse, city hall and office workers a few blocks away. The draw is big New York–style slices and a two-slices-and-a-drink lunch special, with stromboli, calzones, Philly cheesesteak subs, pasta and wings behind them. It is one of the longest-standing lunch counters on the avenue, though nobody has written down how long.

Description

Nick’s sits in the 700 block of Minnesota Avenue, the main street of downtown Kansas City, Kansas, between North 7th Street and Allis Court — a few blocks from the Wyandotte County Courthouse, City Hall and the federal courthouse that supply its lunch trade.¹² The tourism bureau’s listing calls it “a local favorite pizza place also offering Italian dishes like stromboli and calzones,” with lunch specials and fast, friendly service; it is listed by both Visit KCK and Kansas Tourism.³⁴

The hours define it: 10:30 to 4, weekdays only.¹ Reviewers across platforms describe the same things — “huge, fresh slices,” a crisp crust in the New York manner, a lunch special of two large slices and a drink that has crept from about $6 to about $9 over the years, and a menu that also runs to a Philly cheesesteak pizza sub, a white spinach pizza, chicken-bacon-ranch and chicken-Alfredo pizzas, Hawaiian calzones, mozzarella sticks, an antipasto salad with grilled chicken, and pasta.¹² Restaurantji aggregates it at 4.8 from 130 reviews with July 2026 activity; Tripadvisor rates it 4.8 and ranks it among the top hundred restaurants in KCK; Yelp shows 28 reviews and an April 2026 update.¹²⁵

Ownership and history

Nothing is published about who Nick is or was, who runs the shop now, or when it opened; review aggregators say only that it has “been in business for a long time.”¹ A Kansas City Kansan archive search or a call to the counter would settle most of it. No metro food press has covered it.

Links

• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/205855916154322
• Ordering (DoorDash Storefront): https://order.online/store/nicks-pizza-kansas-city-25000583
• Visit KCK listing: https://www.visitkansascityks.com/listing/nicks-italian-pizza/1847/
• Kansas Tourism listing: https://www.travelks.com/listing/nicks-italian-pizza/60405/

Menu

Menu status: unverified. Nick’s has no website; the only online menu is a DoorDash-operated storefront, which the Registry does not use for prices. Items named above come from reviews. A photographed counter menu would resolve this.¹⁶

Sources

Footnotes

1. Restaurantji — “Nick’s Italian Pizza, Kansas City, KS.” Retrieved 2026-08-29 — Confirms: 714 Minnesota Ave, 66101; (913) 321-1610; hours Mon–Fri 10:30–4, closed weekends; 4.8 / 130 reviews, activity July 2026; popular dishes (Hawaiian calzone, Philly cheesesteak pizza sub, chicken-bacon-ranch and chicken-Alfredo pizzas, mozzarella sticks, Caesar); ”$”; “been in business for a long time”; take-out, delivery, online ordering. Third-party. ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶

2. Tripadvisor — “Nick’s Italian Pizza, Kansas City, KS.” — Confirms: address 714 Minnesota Ave, 66101-2704; 4.8 rating; ranking within KCK restaurants; reviewer notes on two-slice lunch special, New York–style crust, white spinach pizza, stromboli, antipasto salad. Page blocked to automated retrieval on 2026-08-29; indexed text. ↩ ↩² ↩³

3. Visit Kansas City Kansas — “Nick’s Italian Pizza” listing — Confirms: “local favorite pizza place also offering Italian dishes like stromboli and calzones”; lunch specials; hours Mon–Fri 10:30–4. Listing body not rendered to automated retrieval; indexed text. ↩

4. Kansas Tourism (TravelKS) — “Nick’s Italian Pizza, Kansas City KS, 66101” listing — Confirms: state tourism listing exists. Body not rendered to automated retrieval. ↩

5. Yelp — “Nick’s Italian Pizza, 714 Minnesota Ave, Kansas City, KS,” listing updated April 2026, 28 reviews, 4.5 stars — activity signal only; blocked to automated retrieval. ↩

6. DoorDash Storefront — “Nicks Pizza, 714 Minnesota Avenue — Order pickup and delivery.” — Confirms: live ordering page under the “Nicks Pizza” name; prices not used. ↩