{"id":67128,"date":"2025-12-10T19:54:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T19:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/67128\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T19:54:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T19:54:09","slug":"austin-cafe-food-truck-ranked-among-new-york-times-best-dishes-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/67128\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin caf\u00e9, food truck ranked among New York Times\u2019 best dishes 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

The New York Times named\u00a0Mercado Sin Nombre\u2019s Bad Honey Bunny one of its most memorable dishes of 2025<\/a>, praising its precision and perfume. Food reporter Priya Krishna wrote that the coiled pastry \u201clooks almost cartoonishly perfect,\u201d adding that \u201cthe heady scent of cardamom and honey hits you before you even take a bite.\u201d Despite its beauty, she noted, the $7 bun \u201ctastes every bit as plush and elegant as it appears.\u201d<\/p>\n

The national recognition may come as no surprise to Austin diners who\u2019ve already discovered the caf\u00e9 tucked behind a nondescript alley off Pleasant Valley Road. But for many,\u00a0Mercado Sin Nombre still feels like a secret.<\/p>\n

Austin American-Statesman restaurant critic Matthew\u00a0Odam has argued that the caf\u00e9 defies expectations for a walk-up windo<\/a>w. Calling it \u201cone of the great hidden gems of Austin,\u201d Odam wrote that \u201cjust a few bites and a slight investigation lets you know that there is much more to Julian Maltby\u2019s coffee shop than meets the eye.\u201d While Maltby emphasizes Mexican corn and coffee traditions, Odam notes that \u201cthe food program is being helmed by the kind of major talent you expect at award-winning restaurants, not walk-up windows.\u201d<\/p>\n

The\u00a0NYT nod suggests the rest of the country is now catching up.<\/p>\n

But the story behind\u00a0Yeni\u2019s Fusion is just as compelling as its desserts.<\/p>\n

Odam has chronicled chef-owner Yeni Rosdiyani\u2019s mission to bring Indonesian cuisine to Austin, a city with far more Vietnamese, Thai, Chinese and Japanese options than Indonesian ones. \u201cShe has a point,\u201d Odam wrote. \u201cThe city has no shortage of [those cuisines]\u2026 but I only know of one Austin restaurant serving a menu of Indonesian dishes.\u201d Rosdiyani, who grew up in Java, has become, in his view, \u201cthe best possible ambassador\u201d for the flavors she grew up cooking with her father.<\/p>\n

He describes her cooking style as meticulous \u2014 a discipline passed down from a parent who was \u201cspecific and picky,\u201d often critiquing her work until the flavors were right. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t take more than one bite of\u00a0Rosdiyani\u2019s food to know that time goes into everything she prepares,\u201d he wrote.
Rosdiyani opened her truck in 2021 after leaving a corporate career in Indonesia and moving to Texas more than a decade ago. She brings \u201can obvious joy\u201d to the kitchen, Odam notes \u2014 and that joy appears to be resonating on a national level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New York Times named\u00a0Mercado Sin Nombre\u2019s Bad Honey Bunny one of its most memorable dishes of 2025,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67129,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[5877,34877,34878,34876,9963,9,11,10,24342,821,1777],"class_list":["post-67128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-austin","tag-austin-texas","tag-austin-things-to-do","tag-casual-dining","tag-dining","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-restaurant-news","tag-restaurants","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}