Nam Nam - Minneapolis

When we arrived they didn’t have our reservation even with an email and text confirmation. Same menu upstairs and downstairs with very loud music the entire meal. We also heard the holiday party karaoke during our meal which was an added negative bonus. With the loud music the lights also were blinking and changing color to the beat so it felt like a club vibe in a formal dinning area. Food and service were great but you pay a downtown tax with a horrible environment. Would recommend a different sushi restaurant Due to the environment.

Nam Nam does not exist anymore--it now has the same menu as Seven. This was not obvious from the website, so we went hoping for South Asian food and ended up with only steakhouse options. Definitely not impressed.

We were greeted and brought to our table by Deanna. She was extremely professional and immediately made us feel like we’d made the right choice for pre show dinner. Our server, Tishelle, was exceptional. She was pleasant, accommodating, and in tune with each part of our ordering process. We ordered the firecracker roll and two oysters to start. They were very good. The roll originally came out without wasabi ginger but the gentleman dropping it off realised it and fixed that issue before he even set down the plate. We then ordered a bottle of wine. It was taking a long time to arrive so Tishelle had to track it down. The staff were telling her they weren’t sure if they even had the bottle we’d requested. She found it in the end and brought it to us. We then ordered the porterhouse special. It was a 32oz porterhouse with a baked potato and broccolini. We ordered it medium rare yet it came well done and not even seared on the outside. Tishelle brought it back to the kitchen and we received a new one. This one was undercooked (still not seared/but tasty/we ate it quickly as our show was starting) and had asparagus instead of broccolini. Deanna stopped by a couple of times throughout the night to make sure things were going well and assisted Tishelle in making corrections to our order issues. Based on the exceptional service from both Deanna and Tishelle, we will go back here and give the kitchen another chance.

We were extremely disappointed with the service and the food at Nam Nam . We complained to our waiter a couple of times about a couple of things. One was my drink being delivered to my table with a third of it missing, the waiter agreed, but then walked away and did nothing to rectify it. we told him we did not liking the cold cauliflower dish we ordered and only ate a small amount of, but he did nothing to make it better. The tuna shashimi was stringy and tough, and very disappointing. The seaweed paper used on the cut rolls were tough and chewy. The best thing was the grilled asparagus and the salmon shashimi. We would not recommend this place to anyone. As we were leaving and heading downstairs to Seven, the other sister restaurant there, I asked for the manager and informed him of our bad experience upstairs at Nam Nam. The manager was very apologetic, and did offer for us to come back and eat at seven on him, or have a drink at the bar to help make it up, which was a nice jester on his part. However, we were leaving town the next day, and we were not able to take him up on his offer to make it right.

We came in with the expectation that Nam Nam would fill the fusion void left by Saffron, but it did not measure up. The Sushi/no no rolls had too much rice, the thai chicken was too salty, and the beef short ribs were tasteless. The wings were the best part of the meal, relative to rest of the food Lyn 65 wings are much better. Service was very good, though.