Daily News | Nick’s Roast Beef’s Cottman Avenue location will close after 54 years
54-year run on Cottman Avenue in Northeast Philadelphia will end Sunday, March 5, not with a whimper but with a wake.
Nick’s, which spreads across four storefronts on a commercial strip near Roosevelt Mall, was sold in January, and Rossi said he could not come to terms with the new landlord. The proposed rent, he said, was nearly double. On Sunday, as the gravy-smothered, hand-carved roast beef sandwiches on kaiser rolls were coming out of the kitchen, Robert Kallaur, 41, was making his last visit with friends. The bar was the site of his parents’ first date, “and they’re still together,” he said. “This place has a lot of memories.”Nick’s opened in 1969 at the corner of Oakland Street and Cottman Avenue, directly across from Northeast Regional Library.
The finale on Sunday will run from 4 to 7 p.m. with a free buffet. There will be a Champagne toast at 6 p.m.Nick’s traces its roots to Nicholas DeSipio’s beef-and-ale house at 20th and Jackson Streets in South Philadelphia, which opened in 1938 and sold sandwiches for a nickel.
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