Table Of Content
Stay alert while parking, in particular, and in the evenings, when the neighborhood’s bustling crowds tend to thin out. That said, the neighborhood stays fairly busy (and thus feels safer) on weekends and special event days, especially near the Japanese Village Plaza and the Little Tokyo Galleria indoor mall. Sign up to unlock our digital magazines and also receive the latest news, events, offers and partner promotions.
Vegetarian
Native to Japan’s northernmost main island, Santouka Hokkaido Ramen has dozens of locations around the globe—including Harvard Square, Allston, and Back Bay. While several ramen styles are represented on the menu, the signature shio (salt) broth is known for its silky texture and comparative lightness. If you’d like to make it heartier, you can always order extra pork and a soft-boiled egg to your bowl. On the second floor of Weller Court, this longtime yakitori joint serves a small, but well-executed menu of chicken skewers, appetizers and rice bowls alongside a large sake and beer list.
Sushi Gen
Ramen has entered the takeout rotation out of necessity in recent years—and we're glad it has. As comforting to eat from the couch as it is from a counter, here's where to order or sit and slurp the best ramen in Boston. Enjoy the serene beauty of Little Tokyo's James Irvine Japanese Garden—complete with the sound of running water—and enjoy a $195 “L.A.
Bars and late night
Currently operating in the Honda Plaza parking lot, the Mermaid offers nautical-themed cocktails that are fruity, herbaceous and fun, and once a few of its rum-based concoctions have left you feeling peckish, well-made L.A. Bar fare like buffalo wings, cilantro chicken tacos and tater tots will keep you sated until last call. The Mermaid also offers a killer happy hour for drinks, with $7 to $10 cocktails all day on Sunday and 5 to 8pm on weekdays. These days, most of L.A.’s very best Edomae-style omakase meals require setting an alarm to snag a difficult Tock reservation, plus the willingness to dine early or on a random, often inconvenient weekday.
It offers a great selection of bowls and izakaya-style small plates that “you have not seen anywhere,” proclaims owner Yasu Sasago. Once a beloved ramen destination in the Super 88 Food Court, Pikaichi has since settled into Medford as its permanent home. Pikaichi serves eight types of ramen, two of which have a vegetable-based broth. Heat-seekers should opt for the spiciest ramen on the menu, the jigoku ramen; the word jigoku means “hell” in Japanese and is adopted by ramen shops to describe the spiciest variety on its menu.
The Eater Sacramento Heatmap: Where to Eat Right Now - Eater
The Eater Sacramento Heatmap: Where to Eat Right Now.
Posted: Mon, 01 Jul 2013 07:00:00 GMT [source]
Just note Hansei is reservation only—you’ll have to book online via Tock. This tantanmen specialist on Sawtelle comes from the prolific Tsujita group, which already has two standout noodle restaurants on the block. What’s different about Killer Noodle is its homage to the spicy, Chinese-inflected tantanmen. With sesame- and pepper-laden noodles, the ramen is served as a noodle soup or “dry” on a platter. After waiting forever for sushi or ramen at one of Little Tokyo’s cult-classic spots, duck into Wolf & Crane, a casual, dive bar-lite kind of place with communal tables, comic-print wallpaper and classic oldies bellowing from the sound system. A neighborhood bar where the Japanese whiskey is plentiful and the cocktails are creative (and often affordably priced), Wolf & Crane makes for a perfect gathering spot for a small birthday group or solo drinking.
Masuo Onishi settled in Davis Square, Somerville, to share his unique perspective on ramen, having grown up eating the dish in Osaka, Japan. With springy noodles handcrafted in-house, the chef shares his own ramen story at Tsurumen through special noodle bowls inspired by his passions alongside signature menu staples. It’s all worth digging into—but you can’t go wrong with the original. Tsurumen’s Signature Shio Ramen has an invitingly clear chicken broth with boldly savory toppings, including crisped-up slices of chashu pork, bamboo shoots, minced red onion, and scallions. Next-door to sister spot Shōjō, this Chinatown ramen shop brings the ruckus with a hip-hop soundtrack and equally loud food.
Organic dishes,
Ramen is the warm blanket of the food world, providing solace through the changing of the seasons. The Boston area is a treasure trove for this comforting Japanese dish, and plenty of restaurants serve a variety of bowls that should not be overlooked. This charming Japanese diner's been around since 1972—and while Suehiro recently relocated from Little Tokyo to Downtown L.A., the unpretentious menu still offers just as much old-school Japanese comfort from a much larger, sleeker dining room. Tuck into decades-plus old recipes like curry udon, shrimp tempura, straightforward donburi and okonomi combo platess. Tuck away into one of the booths for more privacy, or sidle up to the bar and watch day and night street views of Tokyo play out on a large flat-screen TV, no matter the time of day. Speaking of time of day, this spot is open until 3am on Fridays and Saturdays.
Kids menu,
Many of the area’s family-run shops and eateries date back decades, some older than World War II, and the neighborhood is full of delicious Japanese and non-Japanese food alike, a wide array of Asian sweets and even a few late-night cocktail bars. This ramen offering from the folks behind Torihei izakaya feels very much like a neighborhood ramenya in Japan, featuring an excellent tsukemen that's full of fish funk to go along with intense porkiness. The lighter Tokyo-style ramen has a terrific burst of bonito to round out the flavors without an overly rich tonkotsu broth. Sourcing high-quality ingredients is the focus at Little Big Diner, which sells a variety of pork and chicken ramen, as well as vegetarian pumpkin ramen with roasted delicata squash and spiced pepitas. The ramen shop is run by the same team that also owns another popular spot a few steps down the block, Jinny’s Pizzeria.
—especially when you’ve already had ramen from Shin-Sen-Gumi around the corner and are looking for a nightcap. Sporting a yuzu-tinted seafood and chicken broth, this lighter style of ramen still packs plenty of flavor with soba-like noodles made on the premises and high-quality toppings. The cocktails and minimalist ambience makes the whole affair a pleasant experience.
The vegetarian option—featuring menma, kikurage mushrooms, soy-marinated wheat gluten and umeboshi—makes a real argument for meatless ramen. Named the most elegant izakaya in Little Tokyo by the late Jonathan Gold, Kinjiro is an intimate, upscale dinner spot known for seared uni, decadent bone marrow dengaku and seared thick cut beef tongue. Here, each dish receives deeply thought-out gourmet treatment, from simple dishes like ochazuke made with housemade dashi broth to richer entrées like curry rice, which Kinjiro upgrades with a pillow-soft beef tongue. A large sake selection, as well as a few wines, ensures diners receive a full izakaya experience.
A favorite with beer lovers, Far Bar serves over two dozen artisan brews, plus a long list of spirits and yummy drinking bites like teriyaki sliders, wasabi fries and garlic-butter edamame. While there are burgers on the menu—try the house version with smoked gouda, onions and sriracha mayo—we’d recommend the bacon fried rice with chashu and fried eggs or any of the sushi rolls over them anyday. This focused ramen shop in Torrance serves polished bowls with a garlicky broth. Chashu pork melts in one’s mouth, while the noodles are of the thin, wheat variety common at Hakata-style shops. Isshindo had big shoes to fill, taking over the space of the beloved Pikaichi at Super 88. Opened in March 2022, this new ramen shop hopes to carve a niche for itself in the already-crowded Harvard Square ramen scene with its innovative and unconventional ramen inspired by an ocean town in Japan.
Now instead of late-night visits to super-secret locations, you can order it from the Central Square restaurant for dining in, takeout, or third-party app delivery. Chef Tracy Chang helmed the ramen pop-up Guchi’s Midnight Ramen, and her famed bowl is now on the menu here at Pagu alongside modern Japanese small plates. House-made alkaline noodles rest in a bowl filled with flavorful broth, pork belly, umami oil, nori and a six-minute egg. Enjoy this satisfying bowl in a sleek, welcoming space in Central Square.
No comments:
Post a Comment