Ramo Ramen - Soho
Ramen restaurant · Soho ·
Filipino-Japanese ramen bar with award-winning oxtail kare kare
Filipino-Japanese ramen bar with award-winning oxtail kare kare
"Another part of the Filipino mini-empire in the area is Ramo, a comfortable Filipino-influenced ramen spot, best known for its oxtail kare kare ramen—a championship winner as the menu notes. The peanut-based broth, inspired by Filipino street food, is thick and luscious, and combined with soft oxtail, a fudgy orange egg, shiitake mushrooms, and some chewy wheat noodles, will give you a warm, contented feeling. There’s a seafood option, a vegan mushroom and walnut ramen, plus other brothy noodles alongside karaage and other small plates." - richard ehrlich 3, oliver feldman, jake missing
"Ramo is a stylish Filipino-ramen spot that first opened on Kentish Town Road and has more recently made its way into Soho. A central London feather in the cool-certified Maginhawa group portfolio, Ramo Soho is trendily designed, street-style influenced, hip-hop jamming and most importantly serves up mean bowls of the eponymous noodle soup. Try the octopus kinilaw and bagoong-butter roasted scallop starters, as well as the oxtail kare kare or chicken adobo ramens. It’s hard to find halal ramen in London, and even harder to find a decent variety, so to Ramo’s credit, it’s become the first name that comes to mind. For dessert, one scoop each of milo, calamansi, and guyabano ice cream." - Maazin Buhari
"Ramen’s mixture of styles and customisation make it a good crowd-pleaser; Ramo Ramen’s being halal renders it even more inclusive; and the Kentish Town restaurant is well set for more spontaneous group dinners and bigger parties longer in the planning." - James Hansen
"Situated in the heart of Soho, this follow-up to Omar Shah’s Kentish Town hit applies the complexities of Japanese cooking techniques to flavours of the Philippines. Ramo’s award-winning oxtail kare kare ramen takes inspiration from the classic Filipino dish using peanut beef broth and pulled oxtail, while the wagyu bistek donburi — exclusive to its Soho site — featuring wagyu tri tip seared in its fat and served with egg yolk and spring onion over rice, is essential to any visit." - Juli Suazo
"Omar Shah’s Filipino-Japanese ramen bar is an illustration of what can happen when chefs shake off the straitjacket of “authenticity” and channel their culinary upbringings and inspirations into something singular. Reconstituting the building blocks of Filipino cuisine as ramen bowls, oxtail kare kare combines a peanut beef broth with pulled oxtail and makes tonkotsu look boring in the process; a traditional soup, chicken sopas, shines when reimagined as a series of ramen toppings. Fun, articulate, stunning cookery — it’s another hit for Shah’s Kentish Town empire, which now has a new site in Soho sporting a lobster and crab bowl of pure decadence." - MiMi Aye