If any cliche phrase could sum up restaurant openings last month, it would be “the long-awaited...”

Take, for example, Nicky Slices Pizza Club. Over the past five years, Nick Williams has built a cult-like following for his Instagram-based, Detroit-style, take-and-bake pizza. Nicky Slices is as known for its wild toppings — think chicken nuggets or dumplings — as it is for selling out weekly. That continued at the brick-and-mortar's soft opening last week.

“That was absolutely wild,” a slightly stunned-looking Williams said in an Instagram reel the day after the soft opening. “…We sold out of every single pizza of food in the restaurant yesterday in a little more than two hours. So we don’t have any pizza to sell today.”

Last month also brought some redemption to long-vacant spaces off

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