Nicolai Mccrary

Nicolai McCrary Senior Staff Writer, Austin Nicolai has lived in Austin since 2008, where he’s photographed, cooked for, and written about restaurants. ATXGuide photo credit: Nicolai McCrary All-you-can-eat restaurants are usually a quantity-over-quality ... See more

ATXFeature photo credit: Jessie Clapp When you go to hundreds of restaurants, food trucks, bars, and coffee shops in one year, you tend to notice motifs. For example, 2025 was the year of the pickle. The year of cutesy coffee. The year of so many steak ni... See more

Nicolai McCrary Senior Staff Writer, Austin Nicolai has lived in Austin since 2008, where he’s photographed, cooked for, and written about restaurants. ATXReview Bang Bang is an all-you-can-eat sushi spot tucked inside a Cedar Park strip mall, with a long... See more

Austin’s Best New Restaurants Of 2025 This was a year of firsts for Austin—cheesy khachapuri at the city’s first Georgian restaurants, a food truck serving Cambodian classics hard to find around town, some very fancy chicken wings, Cajun barbecue, and a p... See more