Morgan H.
Yelp
Tl;dr: completely misses the point of what makes ramen joints so great.
I like nice restaurants, and I like ramen joints, and I like ramen, and I do not like this place at all.
Outside there's a sign reading "NO NO NO NO NO". And you're like... bit negative, but OK. And then there's a sign below that saying "Please wait outside to be seated", and you're like... it's 5° out here, no one knows I'm here, so no. I just walked in and got a seat instantly.
And then when you're inside, there's another note saying "If we're busy we'll ask you to leave".
OK... so. These are all standard issues that ramen places, in particular, have been dealing with for decades. Far busier places manage far more functionally. It's a 'ramen joint'? OK. Be busy. Be borderline rude. Shout me a welcome and then give me a menu. Do what you have to do. Just don't do... whatever this is.
Before I ordered I was thinking "This is simply not a restaurant managed by someone who understands hospitality".
And then you order and they bring the card machine so you pay before you get the food. WTF?! You don't trust me? Or you just want me to leave quickly? If I want to order water you have to bring the machine again? No, no, no. Too much now. You've got a human waiter and you've got them doing the job of a ticket machine? Mate. This the most expensive ramen I have had *in my life*. You can pay two waiters.
Also: they have the word 'slurpalicious' on the wall. And that is cringy af. Please: do not do this.
As for the food. Firstly, there are no condiments. No sesame, no chilli, whatever, no garlic, no fermented anything, nothing acidic. Absolutely nothing. Maybe you have to order extra and pay for it, maybe it's on the menu and they want you to ask, maybe customising your ramen is frowned on for these super special ramen broths. I don't know. But by this point I was like "Dudes, this isn't actually a restaurant, this is a shop that sells liquid."
The edamame were too soft. They were overcooked. There was no bite. They came with a mound of pre-soaked horseradish on top which is new, but like... they're edamame, why did you do this? And charge 40 kroner?
The ramen was boring. I had the shio and it tasted OK. The meat was pretty lean. The broth hits a single nice note, but there's not much 'depth', it owes a lot to European cooking and I wanted, I don't know, something burned, something acidic, something sweet, something more than 'chicken'. The ramen themselves were kind of soft. I don't know, the miso looks better, maybe I should have had that.
This place succeeds in feeling cheap and costing a lot. You want to do avant garde ramen? Then find a way to make ramen more like ramen than ramen itself. Make me feel I'm getting a hug from Jurgen Klopp in my mum's fridge. THAT'S WHAT RAMEN IS SUPPOSED TO DO.
I really didn't like this place, the ramen's boring and they had the word 'slurpalicious' on the wall so I'm never going back again.