Tâm Tâm

There is no restaurant in this city like Tam Tam—and not just because Miami lacks the Vietnamese options of many major cities. It just has a very rare combination of exciting food, contagious fun-having, and design details sure to imminently overtake your algorithm. The worn wood paneling left over from the previous occupant makes Tam Tam feel lived-in like a favorite pair of jeans, and one bathroom is a disco karaoke hallucination. The “betel wrapped lamb situation” is our favorite build-your-own dish in the whole city, and the sticky fish sauce caramel wings are so crispy it’s hard to tell if you’re holding a flat or a drum. The overall feeling of Tam Tam speaks to this place’s roots as a supper club, when it was just friends getting together for drinks and one-of-a-kind Vietnamese dishes.