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It’s pretty much expected that if a ramen shop opens in the San Francisco Bay Area, especially one from Japan, you can predict a long line and wait. Add to that the expectation from the world’s first Michelin-star ramen restaurant and you’ve gone ramen mania all over again.
That’s what can describe what’s been happening […]
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TOKYO
Ramen, as you can imagine, is just as popular in Japan as it is back in the States. Japan’s just lucky to have a lot more options in every neighborhood, taking on distinctive styles that reflect the prefecture.
I recently came back from a 14-day vacation to Japan, where I visited four cities […]
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PALO ALTO, Calif.
The latest ramen fascination is centered off University Avenue in Palo Alto where ramen lovers have been checking out nearly two-month-old Ramen Nagi.
The location is the first spot in the United States for the Japanese chain from Chef Satoshi Ikuta, who started Ramen Nagi in 2004 and has expanded to […]
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People can’t get enough ramen. Anytime a new ramen restaurant opens in the Bay Area, you can expect the long lines to follow.
But what if you can skip the line and have ramen in the comfort of your own home?
That’s right, a lot of people who can’t get good ramen often end up […]
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Popular Japanese ramen chain Ippudo, which opened last year in Berkeley, is now hitting the San Francisco crowds with the opening of its new restaurant in Yerba Buena Lane in SOMA.
The San Francisco spot has been in soft opening mode for the last week, and has already been drawing lines. I got a chance […]
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The story: Hinodeya is a Japanese ramen bar that started in Hasuda station in Saitama Prefecture and is now headed by fourth-generation Masao Kuribara of Sasala Group. A year ago, Kuribara opened his first U.S. outpost in San Francisco’s Japantown with a ramen restaurant serving up the lighter dashi-based broth.
Why I went: I tried […]
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The story: New ramen spots are highly anticipated in the Bay Area, but Marufuku opened under the radar earlier this year. Still, word-of-mouth has created a lot of buzz for the Japantown ramen spot (opened in a former ramen restaurant on the second floor of the Japan Center Mall) and the lines are often long […]
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I’d first heard about Ippudo in Manhattan, where its reputation for delicious Japanese ramen noodles translated into long waits of more than 1.5 hours. Its popularity spawned a Westside location, but lines are still supposedly long for the hakata tonkotsu broth.
I didn’t realize that Ippudo was a major chain from Japan […]
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The story: The one-month-old Shinmai brings another ramen shop to Oakland, and surrounds its noodle offerings with high-end izakaya small bites in a hip, splashy big space on the outer edge of the Uptown neighborhood. It’s the brainchild of Yingji Huang, who also owns Montclair’s Kakui sushi restaurant.
Why I went: Always on the hunt […]
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HONOLULU
The common refrain my friends and family heard while I was visiting is “Hawaii hasn’t really changed that much.”
Things move slowly here, and that also means things don’t change much, which could be a good thing because the islands are exactly how I remembered. But it also means there aren’t as many […]
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The nice thing about the ramen frenzy in the Bay Area is that it comes in all forms, from the premium bowls at fancy restaurants, to counters serving up noodles and bar bites, and to pop ups where chefs are honing their skills in broth-making.
An example of the latter is Ippo Ramen, a pop […]
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SAN JOSE, Calif.
I rarely visit a restaurant in its first official week of opening, but since I was in the South Bay already for a convention, I thought I’d swing by the new Jinya Ramen Bar in San Jose’s Westfield Oakridge Center.
In the ramen-obsessed Bay Area, it takes a lot of guts to […]
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PORTLAND, Ore.
During this Thanksgiving weekend, I flew up to Portland for a quick holiday weekend to visit my sisters. But even though we had a big Thanksgiving dinner (we celebrated on Friday since I flew in late Thursday), I convinced my sister we needed to try the new Afuri ramen restaurant in Portland’s […]
The story: Nojo opened a few years ago in San Francisco’s Hayes Valley neighborhood, building on the izakaya craze for Japanese grilled eats. But the owners sold the restaurant last year to a Japanese conglomerate called AP Company, and it reopened earlier this year as a ramen restaurant with small bites.
Why I went: The […]
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