Now, senior technical recruiter, Marjory Remy, is ready to respond to the restaurant that calls us to drink and feast.

It's located in downtown Miami and it's called Tam Tam.

Hi, my name is Tam Phan and I'm the chef and owner at Tam Tam in Miami.

So, Tam Tam started out in 2019 and it started out right in the backyard of our former house.

This is when Harry, my husband and I started dating and he had just come back from Vietnam.

And we both agreed that there's not a lot of Vietnamese options in Miami.

And so we wanted to, you know, host dinners and share our love for Vietnamese food to friends and family.

Seven sold out supper clubs later, here we are.

So, being in downtown has always been something that we wanted for a really long time.

When we were scouting for locations for Tam Tam, we were looking at Wynwood, Calle Ocho, but deep down inside we knew we wanted to be in downtown.

So, what I like to call the food here at Tam Tam, I like to call it progressive Vietnamese food with heavy inspirations from Vietnamese drinking culture.

We call it .

To me Tam Tam is my home.

It's a very personal space to me.

The name itself, Tam means heart.

And Tam Tam means two hearts and two soul that represent Harry and I, my husband and I.

We came together to create the space.

So, in a lot of way we always treat it like our own home.

So Marjory, so I know Tam Tam started as a popup, right?

But it became so incredibly popular.

Yes.

We should preface it right, by saying that it's not the easiest to get in because it's really, it does really well, but it's so worth it.

So tell us about Tam Tam.

It's so worth it.

I mean, it's a really chic place.

When you walk in, you feel like you're in a diner 'cause you have a large counter with little booths.

It's a small space, so it's not big.

They recently opened outside so you can sit outside.

Food, amazing.

Consistent.

It's a fusion type food.

Yaniv?

I was so impressed.

I felt like I was in Brooklyn.

Everybody's hipster, middle of downtown, great, lot of couples, young like students, downtown crowd.

The food was phenomenal, creative, delicious, authentic, flavors were great.

Thank you for recommending because I'm definitely gonna be back.

Yes.

Xavier?

I loved it.

It was my first time as well.

I've never been there before.

And I love Vietnamese food.

I love Vietnamese food.

And it's very hard to get good Vietnamese food down here.

Everything's an explosion, right?

Yeah, it's a flavor bomb.

Everything was a flavor bomb.

I had a delicious salad.

Which one, the Lotus.

The Lotus.

Oh the Lotus is amazing.

I had the Lotus.

Refreshing, delicious.

Tell me about the Lotus.

[Xavier] Acidic, sweet.

It's great.

It has seafood in it.

It has some shrimp in it.

I mean seasoned very well.

Great.

What else did you have?

[Marjory] I had the beef tartar, which was amazing.

Tell me about that.

Tons of flavor.

I mean, they give you like this little crispy... Rice.

rice cracker to have with it.

Just, I mean, bursting with flavors.

Yeah, that was one thing I remember very clearly, the flavors.

I had the grilled escarole salad, which was phenomenal and smoky.

I had that also.

Yeah.

I don't do shellfish, so they were able to switch things around for me.

Good.

And for main course I had the lamb.

It's like almost like a lamb lettuce wrap.

[Xavier] Really?

[Yaniv] And it came with a beautiful display.

[Marjory] Yeah, you can make your own meal.

So what else did you have?

I'm kind of ashamed to say it 'cause I went around lunchtime.

I had like three bottles of Vietnamese sake.

Oh yeah, I did that too.

Why are you ashamed of that?

That's great.

I think it's wonderful.

It was very early.

But it was great.

I walked out of there talking a little Vietnamese.

That's how many I had.

How are prices?

I found them reasonable.

Yeah, it's reasonable.

For downtown.

I found them reasonable.

I didn't, you know, I found them very reasonable.

All the places were very reasonable.

I'm pretty sure you probably took an Uber, but how is parking around the area?

It's downtown.

It's downtown, so there's no parking.

Yeah.

I know.

I work down there a lot, but you do find.

Parking.

Yeah, yeah.

There's street parking.

And there's a parking lot right next to the restaurant.

Okay.

Yeah.

How's service, do they kind of tell you what you should have?

Amazing.

I think they're amazing.

Help you around the menu.

Yeah.

The bartender was amazing.

Recommended, we spoke, was able to do some, you know, dietary changes for me.

Right.

Great.

Let me get your summary please, Marjory.

Tell me what you thought.

If you're looking for a chic restaurant where you can get good food with tons of flavor, Tam tam's a place to go.

Yaniv?

For me it was a revelation.

I love the authenticity.

I'm definitely gonna take some out-of-towners.

Who need some like Brooklyn, New York vibe there?

Okay, Xavier?

I loved it.

I'm so happy I found out about Tam Tam.

Definitely a place I would go back to again.

If you want to taste something different, like I said, there's not too many Vietnamese restaurants down here in Miami.

So, definitely a place that if you wanna switch up the regular Miami scene and the regular cuisine that we have here, Tam Tam's a way to go, hands down.

Okay, well for authentic chef-driven Vietnamese cuisine, you can visit Tam Tam, located at 99 Northwest 1st Street in Miami.

They're open for dinner Tuesday to Saturday.

Reservations are accepted, with the average price for dinner without drinks is about $65.