Birmingham restaurant empire that helped define Magic City food scene faces its hardest days

One of Birmingham’s most well-known restauranteurs is at the center of a series of sudden closings and liens filed against properties in two counties this month.

Nick Pihakis, 69, lent his name to one half of Jim ‘N Nick’s, and slowly built a series of companies to bring food to Alabama and the Southeast.

In many ways, Pihakis’ rise in the Birmingham food scene parallels the city’s burgeoning restaurant culture…

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