Nicosi
Fine dining restaurant · North River District ·
Dessert tasting menu pushing boundaries of flavor. No photos.
Dessert tasting menu pushing boundaries of flavor. No photos.
"It’s audacious to ban cameras from capturing Nicosi’s showstopping plating, but the dessert bar’s chef-partner, Tavel Bristol-Joseph, is concerned about shutterbugs interrupting the dining experience. To keep newbies on their toes, the restaurant eschews posting its three-month menu online or showing finished dishes on social media. The dishes are all over the place, but they tend to sneak in flavors like za’atar, bean and cheese, and other thunderbolts of bitter or umami that challenge conceptions of what desserts can be." - H. Drew Blackburn
"Named a one-star addition this year and part of Austin’s Emmer & Rye Hospitality Group." - H. Drew Blackburn
"An all-dessert, no-phones restaurant in San Antonio from Austin’s Emmer & Rye Hospitality Group, it also earned a Michelin star at the ceremony." - H. Drew Blackburn
"An all-dessert restaurant from Austin’s Emmer & Rye Hospitality Group, this earned one Michelin star at the 2025 Texas guide ceremony." - H. Drew Blackburn
"In a dark, moody space off Pullman Market hung with velvet curtains, I sat at an L-shaped counter for a theatrical tasting experience that celebrates dessert from start to finish and enforces a strict no-phones, no-photos policy. The multicourse meal follows four rotating themes — acidic, umami, bitter and sweet — and dishes are rarely repeated from one season to the next; the creations are edgy and imaginative, from a mille-feuille of Fat Tailed Tomme cheese crackers with spring onion mousse, powdered sugar and caviar with gold leaf to beef short rib crowned with cotton candy spun in the middle of the room, and the chefs constantly engage diners, freely explaining their process and inspiration." - The MICHELIN Guide