The quality must have gone up since becoming a restaurant instead of a Buffett because I thought the food was delicious. I got three items (below) and all three were wonderful! The only reason I am giving it 4 starts instead of 5 is it seems a little spendy. The Mei Fun was a large plate but most of their Beef dishes were ($18.95). Singapore Mei Fun ($12.95) Pork & Shrimp Dumpling ($4.95) Beef Ball ($4.50) read more

Thanks yelpsters for steering me & the fam to Nani. Great dim sum with too many delectable choices to choose from. Everything was fresh and made to order. Very courteous service that will help narrow your choices if you find the menu a little overwhelming. We will definitely be back again! read more

Friendly service, but very slow. The food that arrived did not look like the food we ordered from their menu.

Great place for when you are hungry and craving some variety of Asian food. The service was good and our food came out pretty quickly. We actually ended up ordering too much food! Definitely will hit this place up again! read more

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Typical Chinese zaocha, try twice. Nothing bad, just common taste. You cannot choose other restaurants for zaocha, because this is the only one in Madison. Only one thing makes me down, they charge me twice for a dinner because of machine issue. They said it would be refunded soon, I am waiting. read more

Nani Restaurant - Dim Sum Near Me - Madison, Wisconsin

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I've been here before when this was a Chinese Buffett two separate times. The current owner had taken this restaurant to the NEXT level. Braised Pork Belly w/ Lotus Root is AH-MAZING!! I also suggest the pan fried veg. & pork bun, short ribs with pepper, Chinese broccoli w/ oyster sauce and the LIVE Lobster. I can't explain in words how decadent everything tasted. Go and see for yourself. The staff is extremely nice and more then willing to answer questions! They really earned the 5 star rating!! read more

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Been to a lot of dim sum restaurants in the States, let me get it straight: the food is alright and we really liked the shrimp spring roll and radish rice cake but the service was a joke. I had to wave for services for everything we need: ordering food, tea, no conversation, missed my tea and charged me for a dish didn't show up. If you are not investing in overall dinning experiences such as experienced servers for customers, I'm not sure how you are gonna build good reputation. Definitely won't come here again. read more

Was excited to have a dim sum place in Madison. We ordered a bunch of different dishes. 7 total which is a bit too much for two people but we're able to take them home. We were disappointed in the Xiao Long Buns (Baos). There was no juice in them. Typically, you eat these with a spoon. You place one on a spoon and nibble some of the top off. Then you proceed to slurp out the super yummy juice. Anyways, these are more like steamed dumplings though the meat was very mushy and wouldn't hold its shape. It seemed like they used a lot of fillers, possibly flour, that made the meat act this way. I would recommend the pot stickers instead though there were a LOT of chives. The deep-fried dough sticks was the best dish we had. It's best to eat these hot. Although they do mention *picture for reference only, please prevail in kind* on the menu, it was disappointing to get no veggies in the vegetable crepe. There are absolutely no greens on the dim sum menu. Instead it was filled with different types of fungi. It would have been nice to have some real veggies in it. On to the sweets - the deep-fried sesame balls are good. The outer shell was a bit harder and crunchier than I have had before, but overall they were tasty. The puffy egg custard tarts are good though the shell is a bit in the buttery side. The flavor is good though. The service was good and attentive. They speak both English and Mandarin. I didn't hear any other dialects when I was there. If you have never been to a dim sum place, they will walk you through it. Basically, just mark down how many of the dishes you want. You can always request more later. Each dish will come one at a time so expect a wait in between dishes. For those who have had good dim sum, you may be disappointed. Things are on the greasy and salty side, as others have mentioned. read more

Flat out the best dim sum in Madison and even more surprising an absolutely perfect Peking duck. Highly recommended.

We stopped in for dim sum lunch and to check out this place. I have had Nani on my list for awhile, so I was excited to give it a try. There were two of us and neither of us had been there before. We were seated away from other patrons, so I was unable to see portion size before ordering. The waiter instructed us to get 2 or 3 items each to sample as a table. This was way too much food for 2 people. We were hungry and still brought about 60% of our food home with us. I like leftovers, but some of the dim sum was definitely better to eat fresh (vs later on). The beef crepe was slimy and a weird texture. A lot of crepe and very little filling. The shrimp dumpling with green chive was really good. Lots of flavor from both the shrimp and the chives. The sticky rice in the lotus leaf was very dense and super filling. It was great flavor though! The BBQ pork buns were a little dry for my tastes. My companion gobbled them up though. The pan fried taro cakes were pretty good flavor. They did stagger the items to the table, but by the time that all five were there, I was a bit overwhelmed by the amount of food that we had ordered. There definitely was no room left over for dessert. read more

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My new favorite place to eat Chinese. I had the ox tongue with tripe in chili sauce. The dish was well seasoned and had a good balance in meats. the tripe and beef slices were cooked well and tasteful. It's my favorite ox tongue w tripe in Madison so far compared to VIP and Ichiban. I also ordered the spicy beef brisket in clay pot, which was well season and hearty. My wife ordered the pork and shrimp crepes, bbq pork buns, and Xiao long buns. she enjoyed them all especially the crepes. service was also great. If we needed something; we asked and it was taken cared of. I can't wait to go back and order more of their wide selections; I especially would like to try the peking duck! read more

I've died and gone back to LA's Chinatown. Can't believe I've suffered through pre-frozen, MSG-laden, rubbery Americanized Chinese food in Madison...when this delightful, authentic restaurant was just 2 miles away! You'll feel like you're in a bustling dim sum restaurant in a big city (despite the ample parking and friendly service)! read more

Mixed feelings about this place. The food is good enough to satisfy your cravings for dim sum but it's not as good as dim sum places you'd find in Chi-town. However, if you're new to dim sum, this place should be fine for you. But if you've had really good authentic dim sum, this place may leave you disappointed. I was more disappointed in the service to be honest. There is no one standing up front when you enter so you have to stand there and wait until someone notices you. I've ordered takeout a few times, but one time I sent in my order over an hour before I came to pick up, and they did not even realize my order came in. I ended up having to wait an additional 25-30 minutes for my food. Service here is really hit or miss. You just gotta catch them on a good day, I guess. This is the only dim sum place I know of in Madison, so I can't really suggest another place. But if you really want authentic dim sum and are willing to make the drive, Chicago has tons of authentic dim sum restaurants that will literally make your mouth water. read more

Friendly staff, clean and spacious dining area, fresh food regardless of time. When I walked in to pick up my take-out order I was greeted by a very friendly wait staff. The dining area is very clean and spacious with traditional round tables and the regular rectangular tables. This place seems great for a family dim sum lunch or dinner. As for the food, I was surprised and excited that they made me a fresh BBQ Duck at 9pm when they close at 10pm. Props to the kitchen because most places would just sell me a duck thats been sitting there for a while. I'll definitely be back for the full dim sum menu. read more

My wife and I recently had a chance to have a dim sum luncheon at the Nani Restaurant while passing through Madison, WI. Both of us really like dim sum and it is not an option in Iowa. We arrived on a Sunday just as the restaurant opened meeting several of her Chinese friends. Typical Chinese restaurant décor. Nothing fancy. Could use some updating/makeover. They provide you with a menu showing the available dishes and you mark which you want (they do not push around dim sum carts here) and eventually they make their way to your table. We order quite a few different dishes so we got to sample a lot of dishes. The food was just ok. Nothing was really memorable. Nowhere near as good as the dim sum dishes at the Mandarin Restaurant in south Minneapolis. If in the area, I would return. read more

I order rad bean jelly-O. It tastes like plastic! And the price are too hight. General T'so chicken charges ¥14 . The restaurant gets rid of us. read more

Nani Restaurant - I hate it! I ordered a rad bean jelly-O. It tastes like plastic! - Dim Sum Near Me - Madison, Wisconsin

Amazing dim sum! I'm from San Francisco and, luckily, get to experience a lot of good dim sum. Nani was just as good as and, honestly, better than some of my Bay Area favorites. I've been meaning to review as I visited in the fall when visiting family...will definitely go again when I'm back in the area! read more

Food is just OK. Maybe 3 to 3.5 stars. Kind of salty, which is not what dim sum is supposed to be. You'll not need soy sauce at all as they make the dishes very salty. Service is bad. No star at all. They brought a dish we didn't order along with 2 other dishes we did order. Later they brought the 2 dishes again and realized the error. What surprised me is that they altered our ordering sheet to include the dish we didn't order. At check-out, the owner insisted that they didn't change anything on the paper, but we are pretty sure what we've ordered. That's just dishonest and disgusting. She did admit that one dish was put in incorrectly, and offered to give me that one for free the next time. Next time? Hell no more. The same owner also owns a Chinese restaurant on State Street. Sneaky biz practice there to charge 18% tips regardless of the group size. Similar tactics here that group of 5 or more will add 18% service charge. read more

First and LAST time here! My partner & I waited for 5 minutes at the front desk when the first employee saw us and walked by without any acknowledgment of us. Another employee came by and did the same until we said "Hi" to get their attention. We were seated, but no one came to greet us with water. We looked at the menu & patiently waited for about 15 mins when there were only a handful of occupied tables. We then noticed that two groups of people who came in after us were led to their table, served with water, and were engaged in conversations with the staff. We walked out of that place and I am still upset by how they treated us. This place needs to learn the most important thing about food service: to treat each customer like they are valued! Extremely rude staff, poor to no catering services, and no table manners! To add insult to injury, as we were walking out, we heard an employee "cough" several times. Rude. 0/5 stars. read more

I've never had such fresh Chinese cuisine, and I call it cuisine because of the flavors of the food, and helpfulness of the wait staff. They wanted you to enjoy from the very best they had to offer. Delicious in everything I had, just ask your wait staff what's good and tell them your tastes. I may make this a destination stop every time I am traveling between Indiana & Minnesota!! read more

We unexpectedly found this place while shopping and 4 of us came for lunch. We were impressed with the large menu, which also included an easy lunch menu. We enjoyed all of the dishes we ordered. The portions were huge!! I took enough home to last for 2 more days! The only complaint I have is that dishes came to the table at various times. So some of us had our food quite a bit before others. Overall, we enjoyed the experience and Nani seems like a great option to try new and familiar Chinese menu items. read more

Grown up on dim sum and eaten at countless places. Nani has really solid dim sum. Really well stuffed and large dumplings and flavors were good without being too oily. read more

Horrible experience. The worst moo Shu pork. Never again and will tell people to never go there. Awful service

Amazing restaurant! Very clean, and well appointed. The menu was impressive and varied. Service was excellent all three times I dined there. Portions were HUGE and each dish I had was delicious. The sesame balls, the chicken feet, the dumpling with shrimp and peatip were all my favorites. read more

Tonight we decided to try Nani for the first time. We went on a Saturday night around 6 for dinner with a group of 4. We had heard good things about their dim sum and had high hopes. Once we sat down we were greeted immediately and our server explained how to order from their menu w/ pictures. We had to ask to see a cocktail menu and did not get water immediately. Actually, we had to ask again for water and were only brought one water and had to ask AGAIN for all 4 of us to get a glass of water. We ordered 6 different dim sum entrees with the assumption that we would order more. That ended up not being the case as our food was quite underwhelming. We ordered the shrimp dumplings, pan fried veggie rolls, pepper pork ribs, fried sticky rice, bbq pork buns and the sesame balls. When we tried to order cocktails, we were informed that they did not have any tonight but that we could order from their sake and martini menu. So I ordered a martini with the exact same vodka as the cocktail I initially tried to order (??) The dim sum plates that we enjoyed were the bbq pork buns, the shrimp dumplings and the sesame balls (our favorite). Unfortunately we did not like the other half of our meal. The fried rice had small pieces of a dried jerky like meat and small fried shrimp. It overall was very fishy tasting and none of us really liked it. The ribs were full of gristle, fat and bones leaving very little edible meat. We agreed that the flavor was good but the meat quality was poor. We also thought that the veggie rolls were greasy and flavorless. Lastly, our waiter never came and checked up on us to give us water or ask if we wanted to order more plates. Then when we gave up on that we could not even get him to bring the check. All four of us agreed that we would not be back. Very disappointing. read more

This place is so darn good. We have had dim sum here a few times, so I haven't tried the entrees, but I can say that the dim sum is GREAT! I can't believe this place isn't busier! It is THE only authentic Chinese food in town. And so affordable! read more

Authentic Hong Kong style Dim Sum is one of my favorite lunch options. Since moving from the San Francisco Bay Area, I've been hoping to find a place as good as the ones you find on the west coast. Well, I've found it here in Madison. If you like "Chinese Tapas" this place is for you. Lots of choices, lots of flavors, all of it as fresh as can be. Dumplings, Bao and other treats await. While I haven't tried it yet, they also do a traditional Peking Duck in two courses (as it should be done). read more

Delicious affordable we go for dim sum on the weekends. My favorite tradition. Staff is friendly and accommodating. No complaints here. Recommend soup dumplings and steamed buns. Everything is delicious! read more

Terrible experience. The restaurant chair broke, hurt my friend, and tore a hole in his pants. Not only did the owner not apologize, she actually was angry about my friends complaining about it like it's my friend's fault. Ridiculous service, avoid if possible. read more

I went there a few weeks after they opened. The food dim sum was decent, but the service was poor. We didn't get our food until 45 mins later. They charged us $7.00 for a bottle of miller lite, I think that's extreme for domestic 12 oz beer. Seems like the waiters and waitresses were confused and were not sure what we order, we ended up not getting two of our dim sum orders. We were told the kitchen recycled our paper where we placed our order...lol. After our first time with poor service, we wanted to give them another chance. We went back a week later and this time the service was even worse. We sat at our table for a good 25 minutes, no one came and asked us if we wanted water or even gave us the menu. We decided to leave the place. Until I hear the service has improved, I will not waste my time and money at this place. read more

So happy to have some good dim sum in madison!! They have an entree menu, but they also do all-day dim sum. You'll end up spending around $20 per person, but totally worth it. My spouse gives a big thumbs up for the pork buns. The space is huge, so I hope they can fill it and stay around! We will be regulars here for sure. read more

Our go-to place for dim sum..Favorite dishes are pepper short ribs, congee, pork buns.

My grandchildren and I threw up right after we got home from Nani. We all had upset stomach. It was our first time there. There were chunks of fat in ALL the dim sum we ordered. It was kind of gross. If you are the chef of Nani reading this, please cook healthier food for others. Food poisoning is not a joke. I'm feeling very disgusted thinking about your food. read more

Awesome delicious Dim Sum! No more driving to Chicago for it. The BBQ duck's skin was crispy and so flavorful. They've only been opened for a month. It was definitely worth the drive. Will definitely be back! read more

Nani Restaurant - Everything was good! :-) - Dim Sum Near Me - Madison, Wisconsin

Food was very tasty. This was our first experience with dim sum and we liked it. The restaurant had a good atmosphere and the staff was friendly. The only complaint I have is that the bathroom was cold and the water that came out of the faucet to wash my hands was freezing!! read more

I like their dim sum although that might be because it's the only option in Madison. I thought we should try their other entrees since I liked the dim sum. I was pretty disappointed in the food even though they charge a more premium price than other local Chinese places do. The stir-fried chicken with hot chilis isn't the style that Fugu and ZenZen Taste does. Instead of meaty chicken nuggets with light breading, they use the same chicken they use in Americanized dishes like General Tao's so it was basically all flavorless breading and very, very little chicken. The breading is supposed to soak up sauce so without sauce, it was like eating soft dough pieces. The quality was so poor some pieces tasted like fish even. I ended up throwing that entire dish out. I couldn't think of a way to repurpose that dish as leftovers for later so that was $15 down the drain. The BBQ pork spare ribs were great. General Tso Chicken and braised tofu were nothing special and not worthy of $12-15 for the portion they gave. You can get the exact same quality at the mall food court (and it might even be better). I like their dim sum when we go in person but this food was 30% more expensive than Tai's Asian Bistro (our usual take out spot) and not worth it at all. The prices they charge do not justify the quality and does not mean authenticity. That stir-fried chicken dish was truly disgusting. I'll come back for the occasional dim sum but likely never come back for Chinese food. This experience dramatically lowered my opinion of this restaurant. Tais, Taigu, and ZenZen Taste are much better. I'm annoyed at myself that I spent $60 on subpar food. I should have tried one dish to see if they had good food first. Lesson learned. read more

Hi Justin, Thanks for your reply, it is good to know that you read the comments and are willing to improve. Since you asked, let me explain why I gave you only 3 stars. We ordered shrimp dumpling. The wrapper was not chewy enough and it breaks into pieces instantly upon touching, leaving us eating shrimps instead of shrimp dumplings. For chicken feet, it was soft enough, but the flavor was not strong enough, leaving some of its original smell behind. For bbq pork crepe, the proportion of the pork and the crepe was not ideal (crepe being too thick in my opinion), and the taste of soy sauce was not strong enough, perhaps not the kind that I'm used to; but otherwise good, I might try a different kind of crepe later. Also, I would appreciate it if the sauce comes separately, for I hate for the crepe to soak in the sauce longer than it should. We also ordered salty tofu pudding, apparently you only randomly scoop one spoon of some kind of spicy sauce on top of it. I understand there are many ways to make salty tofu pudding, even though what I'm used to usually have more complicated seasoning. But putting that aside, the tofu was totally covered in red chili oil from the sauce, making it impossible for me to eat. Or perhaps rename the dish "tofu in red chili oil" so people have the correct expectation. Braised pork belly tasted good, but the presentation was really bad; sauce was all over the shallow plate. The stuffed bean curd skin was my favorite, very tasty. read more

Worst customer service ever!! I was the first customer of the day and when I got seated other customers were coming in too. I finished my ordered and told the waiter but he just walk pass me and went to help chinese speaking customers first! They had like 4 waiters yet no one came by and they just greeted customers they knew. They're more friendly if you can speak their language! I waited 1 hour to finally get my order in and waited a total of 1 hour to get all the food I ordered even though there was barely any customers only like 4-5 tables. The food is expensive for the portion you get. Only come here if you're dying to eat decent dim sum.. Will not plan to eat here again unless I am literally dying to eat dim sum. read more

Not your typical authentic Dim sums restaurants. Dim sums sizes are much larger than normal Dim sums restaurants. The execution and flavor of Nani's dishes are lacking. Shrimp crepe is very gummy and stir fry noodles is very oily. read more

We love the food here. The stir fried chicken with hot chili is amazing. My girls tried the ham and cheese buns and loved those too. If I can convince myself to try anything other than the hot chili chicken (which I have only ever seen at one other restaurant before) I'm sure it will be amazing. We were a little confused on the ordering process of marking what we wanted on the sheet but know what we are doing for next time. read more