Nick & Rudy's Steakhouse, the clubby eatery owned by restaurant veterans Rudy Caduff and Nick Nikolaiczyk, closed last Saturday after operating for seven-and-a-half years. “The economy got us,” said Caduff. He said the decision to close came as food and flour prices are putting the squeeze on the dining industry and his longtime friend and business partner Nickolaiczyk is battling cancer.
Caduff, a culinary alumnus of the Opryland Hotel (he served as director of catering for the complex, and Nikolaiczyk was general manager of the hotel's Old Hickory Steakhouse) is now looking for a job. He does not know what will fill the location at 204 21st Ave., which formerly housed Ireland's.
