NoMI

11/15/09

stay away from NoMI

by tomku at Citysearch

NoMI restaurant is very disappointing. The presentation of the food is good but flavors are very uninteresting. Where are truffles in Truffle Risotto ? you can not even smell them. Just remember you pay (a lot) for the "view" not the food. It is bad for Chicago to have restaurant like this in so prominent location.

• Pros: nice interior
• Cons: horrible food

07/27/09

like an old buddy

by 24kgoldcoaster at Citysearch

oh NoMI ... you can be so much more, but for now, we can depend on you for a cocktail or two.

• Pros: great place for drinks
• Cons: but nothing else

09/02/08

Great environment and

by jen1971 at Citysearch

I went to this bar for the first time last week. It was a Friday after work. This bar is on the 7th floor and has a very nice outdoor space. The drink menu has a good selection. I would definitely recommend the Razz Mojito. I would love to go back and visit this bar again. There was a professional crowd and it a great place to go for happy hour.

07/23/08

Not worthy of the Park Hyatt

by nycgal1978 at Citysearch

The Park Hyatt is a fabulous brand. It really is. Nomi is lucky to be at the Park Hyatt Chicago. Its on the 7th floor of the building so you have somewhat of a view (tops of buildings) but not an amazing top-of-building panoramic view. I celebrated a milestone birthday there this past weekend. My friend and I ordered omelettes for brunch. Mine came 20 minutes before hers. Totally inexcusable at a restaurant of this price. (Eggs are like $20.) When the waiter noticed that her food hadn't arrived, he said, "Just 40 seconds more!" but it was about 10 minutes more. Do they have one skillet? We were drinking $5 iced teas (the waiter looked truly disappointed we were not ordering alcohol) and before my friend had even finished hers, the waiter came over and said, "Do you want more? If not let me take this away or the staff will keep asking you if you want more." It was a very awkward moment. My friend had not finished her tea - it was still half full! But he took it away. I had noted in the reservation that I was celebrating my birhday. We ordered dessert and they didn't write anything on the dessert nor did they bring us any freebies. They gave us what they gave everyone at the restaurant for dessert - a tin of petit fours. However, when I opened the lid, it read HAPPY ANNIVERSARY. We told the waiter when he came over to ask how everything was, and he laughed it off. We dropped nearly $100 on brunch and he couldn't get the occasion right? Or give us a freebie or take something off the bill in regret? This place is not classy.

10/21/07

wow. they had Chimay! and the food was pretty classy too

by katherinedonald at Citysearch

It is expensive but few places have had such a nice Sunday 'brunch' and I was amazed and pleased at my dinner visits of the rarities they have on their wine and beer (and tea) lists. Chimay is the best foreign beer I have ever had and they had it when I was there, but you might need to be carried home as it is strong. Food excellently prepared and waitstaff a bit formal but still nice. Take the 'recommended' dishes by your Server--they are the most unusual. Gals go early if you want to avoid "suits" hitting on you, unless you want that sort of thing. The food is pretty great.

• Pros: food quality and originality & alcohol choices are large variety
• Cons: Very Expensive

06/24/07

From 2004 - Good place, not serious dining, a little too much Hyatt snobbery

by mannysteiner at Citysearch

I note my date of visit since the place seems to have gone down since based on other reviews.

Well we know Hyatt is certainly proud of it since the hotel and restaurant are plastered as the placeholder for any representative photographs of the Park Hyatt brand. My displeasure with this last aside, this is a good restaurant with good food and a decent ambiance.

My wife had breakfast there while staying in the hotel and also had a light dinner on the patio. The food was excellent, that magnificent wine display (I am remiss to call it a cellar) has some creative selections in it (even in Champagnes) which was to my liking, to boot at a reasonable price. This did not translate into the food department though where breakfast of some bread and jams for two ran me $60. It was certainly well presented and tasty, but at least let me get my day started and get me drunk before breaking the $40 mark.

• Pros: Wine List, View, Food Quality and Presentation
• Cons: Pricing of certain items

06/21/07

Amazing service and delicious food!

by gks at Citysearch

I admit, I was a bit nervous going here, as it was for our first anniversary dinner and I just hoped I'd picked the right place. I told them about the occasion ahead of time, and to increase our chance of getting a window table we'd made reservations for early in the evening ...But I must say, in no way was I prepared for how wonderfully they treated us. We got (in my opinion) the best table (the view is incredible), and were handed menus with Happy 1st Anniversary! printed right on them - which they told us we could take home if we wanted - and our dessert also had Congratulations! written in icing. The waiter was very attentive, and the bottle of wine they recommended was fabulous and always poured the second one of us ran low. The sushi we ordered practically melted in our mouths and was DELICIOUS, and the steak I ordered was great (though I could do without the liver in the topping - which they DID warn me about and ask if I'd prefer it without - I should've remembered I really just don't like liver). It was pricey, yes, but we were prepared for that. All in all, the service was amazing, and the food was delicioius. I would definitely go back here.

02/24/07

Were it not for the view this restaurant would be closed.

by jkritic at Citysearch

Sandro where are you. Santa Barbarba I hear. Please come back. This place is a sink hole without your scallops and touch. Avoid this place like the plague. Disorganized service. Wine service is poor to non-existent. Food is okay but not what one would expect. I predict this place is going to loose some stars in the next go around.

02/14/07

The most disappointing, appalling experience-

by nmf at Citysearch

We went there 2/11/07 at Noon for Sunday Brunch and it was beyond disappointing- I can't even find the words to explain.

Much of the food lacked flavor (salt and pepper would have helped), service was terrible- we waited 15-20 minutes to get someone to refill our water and coffee (both completely out). During that time, there were servers, bussers, managers walking around in their suits that completely passed over us and most of the people in our section. We finally called someone over and asked that we get refills- of course they looked at me like, "well it' not my job to pour bevereges but I guess". Not only that, when we got up to get more food, we came back a few minutes later to a table that still had our dirty plates on it. We had to push the plates out of the way and after a few more minutes, someone finally cleared them. There was plenty of staff available to do the job right. The servers we busy half the time chatting with each other in the corner.

There was no fruit (a basic for any brunch), pastries were hard and dry, the potato soup tasted like water, the cheese board looked like a pack of wolves got into it and they never replenished- I can go on.

For $55 per person and at a place with such exposure, I expected MUCH more than a standard menu and presentation. It is so disappointing and frankly a waste of money- I feel like I have been robbed out of $130- there is no value in that place. If the view is what you are finding value in, there are plenty of other restaurants in the city with great views.

This place should be ashamed of themselves charging what they do for mediocre food and poor service. I could have received better service at Ihop.

I am so angry about the whole thing that I feel like contacting the management there and demanding a refund- I am not a complainer either so when I complain, you know there is a problem.

We will never go back. I am just glad we went there for brunch and didn't drop $500 for dinner.

• Pros: NONE
• Cons: Everything- service, food quality, presentation

12/12/06

Avoid at all costs!!

by egjt at Citysearch

My husband and I must have been to a different restaurant as some of the other reviewers because our experience at NoMi was probably one of the worst dining experiences we have ever had. We were very excited to go there as we had heard great things about it. Instead, we were greeted with attitude and indifference, waited in the bar for a ridiculous amount of time (even though we had reservations) only to then be ignored by the bartender once we were able to get close enough to the bar to order a drink. It only got worse from there. The service was abhorrent. If we were at a burger joint, I might expect to have to repeatedly ?ask? for our waiter, but not at a restaurant that charges $21 for a cup of soup. We weren?t even sure who our waiter was. When he did decide to grace us with his presence, we felt like we were bothering him with our questions. He barely explained the menu or specials and never once asked us how everything was. The sommelier was goofy and highly unprofessional and again, we weren?t even sure who she was. We just thought she might be the hostess opening our wine for us. The only service person we were pleased with was the busboy and that?s because he was the only one we saw on a regular basis. The food was average at best. You can definitely get better sushi around town and my fish entree were dry and unappealing. Do not waste your time on this wannabe place!!

• Pros: none
• Cons: terrible attitude, terrible service, way to pricey for the quality of food