Lisa P.
Yelp
Hey, we were so excited to find the OG okonomiyaki tots (and, of course, some great ramen), and we tried to stop in this evening in Multnomah Village. We walked into a 65% empty restaurant and were told (with a bit of an eyeroll, it seemed) that it would be over an hour wait because there were over 100 takeout orders in queue. Seems like a poor business model--if you want to be a ghost kitchen, be a ghost kitchen, but don't be a full service restaurant that isn't interested in actual sit-down customers. We walked away wanting not so much to come back sometime, but to make a grocery list for an Uwajimaya run to make our own damn okonomiyaki tots. Boxer Ramen was not like that, you walked in, ordered, and like magic there would be a table around the time your food was ready, like some other great iconic casual restaurants in Portland that are still successful on that model today (and that get our business embarrassingly often). I was terribly disappointed to be treated like wanting to eat your food was a ridiculous pursuit not worth your time because I actually wanted the experience of eating the food fresh and hot in a restaurant rather than lukewarm out of plastic while I watched TV.