
Miracle Mile's Little Pleasure

Manhassett , N.Y. -- June 2010 ---- Meditarrean salad at Mick & Pedro's restaurant in Manhassett . ( Newsday Photo/ Marjorie Robins) Credit: Newsday/Newsday Photo
With a great sense of anticipation, we dug into our dinner salads Friday night at Nick & Pedro's restaurant on Northern Boulevard in Manhasset.
Since it had been a long year between visits, we went hoping that the salads were as good as always. Bingo.
While Nick & Pedro's has a full Italian menu, with the requisite grilled calamari and linguini with clam sauce, it is about the only place within miles around that serves more than a dozen dinner salads, most in the $20 range. This one was called the Mediterranean, and was loaded with fabulous grilled shrimp, hearts of palm, artichoke hearts, roast peppers, peas, tomatoes, cucumber, olives and avocado. I squeezed lemon over it and a little olive oil and my weekend was off to a running start. My husband's salad was also piled high with vegetables and topped with a thin layer of grilled salmon, crispy in all the right places.
The next two days were spent eating low-end catering food at a family affair in New Jersey, so I was wistful for N&P through Sunday night.
Nick & Pedro's is at 1496 Northern Blvd., Manhasset, 516-365-6930.