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- Pork-bone tonkotsu: Kanada-Ya (St Giles and Piccadilly; Origin Tonkotsu £16.60) and Hakata Ramen + Bar (Bermondsey; £14.95 with an egg). Of the two, only Kanada-Ya’s Piccadilly branch takes bookings.
- House-made noodles and brothless bowls: Monohon Ramen on Old Street makes its noodles and broth in the kitchen every day. Abura Soba is £16. No reservations, and no weekend lunch.
- Chicken broth: Ramen Moto in Fitzrovia (walk-in only, closed Tuesdays) and Tenmaru (Fitzrovia and Finsbury Park; Tori Paitan £16.90).
- Under £15: Koi Ramen Bar (£9.95 to £12.95 eating in), Tonkotsu’s £10.50 weekday lunch, Taro in Soho (£14.90) and Hakata Ramen + Bar (£14.95).
- Halal and vegan: Maki & Ramen in Soho (halal chicken and beef) and Uzumaki in Bloomsbury (Halal Naruto Ramen). Vegan bowls at Hakata Ramen + Bar, Taro, Tenmaru, Monohon, Kanada-Ya and Ivan Ramen.
Tonkotsu is a broth of pork bones boiled for hours until it turns opaque and creamy, served with thin straight noodles. Around it sit chicken-bone paitan, soy-seasoned shoyu, sesame-and-chilli tantanmen, and abura soba or mazesoba, where thick noodles are tossed in sauce and oil with no broth at all.
Knowing which of these a shop cooks settles where to go before you join a pavement queue.
Menus, prices and opening hours as of October 2026.
How the styles differ, and what a bowl costs
A ramen menu is named for its broth (tonkotsu is pork bone, paitan is cloudy chicken) or its tare, the concentrated seasoning ladled into the bowl before the hot soup goes in: shoyu is soy sauce, shio sea salt and miso fermented soybean paste.
| Style | Where to order it | What is in the bowl |
|---|---|---|
| Tonkotsu | Kanada-Ya, Hakata Ramen + Bar, Shoryu Ramen, Ippudo, Tonkotsu, Bone Daddies, Koi Ramen Bar, Taro | Opaque pork-bone broth, usually with chashu pork (braised or roast pork belly), wood ear mushrooms (kikurage) and spring onion. Hakata Ramen + Bar and Shoryu cook the broth for 12 hours; Ippudo for 18, then matures it for a further day. |
| Kumamoto tonkotsu | Hakata Ramen + Bar | Pork broth with burnt garlic oil and fried garlic chips. |
| Chicken (paitan) | Ramen Moto, Tenmaru, Ivan Ramen, Kanada-Ya | Cloudy chicken-bone broth. Ramen Moto’s is a silky, foamy white broth; Tenmaru tops its with sous-vide chicken chashu. |
| Shoyu, shio and miso | Monohon Ramen, Ivan Ramen, Hakata Ramen + Bar, Cocoro, Ramen Moto, Koi Ramen Bar | A soy sauce, salt or miso seasoning under a lighter broth. Monohon puts shoyu into a creamy pork soup. |
| Tantanmen | Monohon Ramen, Bone Daddies, Shoryu Ramen, Tenmaru, Maki & Ramen | The Japanese take on Sichuan dan dan noodles: sesame, chilli and minced meat or soy mince. |
| Abura soba and mazesoba | Monohon Ramen, Kanada-Ya, Tenmaru, Koi Ramen Bar | Brothless: noodles tossed in sauce or oil with pork or mince, an egg and chopped toppings. Koi calls its version Naked Ramen. |
Hakata-style shops ask how firm you want your noodles. Kanada-Ya offers yawa (soft), futsuu (regular), kata (firm) and barikata (very firm), and its menu recommends barikata. Shoryu’s scale runs futsu, katamen, barikata; Monohon uses regular, hard and very hard; Hakata Ramen + Bar serves its noodles hard unless you ask. Kaedama, a second portion of noodles for the broth you have left, is £2.95 at Kanada-Ya, Hakata Ramen + Bar and Koi Ramen Bar and £3.50 at Monohon and Shoryu; Tonkotsu charges £2 for extra noodles.
What a standard bowl costs, eating in.
| Price | Shop | Bowl |
|---|---|---|
| £12.95 | Koi Ramen Bar | Pure White Tonkotsu |
| £14.50 | Cocoro | Tonkotsu Ramen |
| £14.50 | Maki & Ramen | Tonkotsu |
| £14.90 | Shoryu Ramen | Origin Tonkotsu |
| £14.90 | Taro | Tonkotsu Ramen |
| £14.95 | Hakata Ramen + Bar | Hakata Tonkotsu |
| £15.50 | Monohon Ramen | Shouyu Tonkotsu |
| £15.95 | Tonkotsu | Tonkotsu |
| £16.60 | Kanada-Ya | Origin Tonkotsu |
| £16.90 | Tenmaru | Tori Paitan |
| £17 | Ivan Ramen | Tonkotsu |
| £32.50 | Kinoya | Shio Paitan with chicken |
Where they are
| If you are near… | Where to eat |
|---|---|
| Covent Garden, St Giles & Bloomsbury | Kanada-Ya (St Giles), Ippudo (Central St Giles), Cocoro, Uzumaki |
| Soho & Piccadilly | Kanada-Ya (Piccadilly), Bone Daddies, Tonkotsu, Shoryu Ramen, Maki & Ramen, Taro |
| Fitzrovia | Ramen Moto, Tenmaru, Ippudo (Goodge Street) |
| Strand & Embankment | Ippudo (Villiers Street) |
| Clerkenwell, Farringdon & Old Street | Monohon Ramen, Ivan Ramen |
| Bermondsey | Hakata Ramen + Bar |
| Finsbury Park | Tenmaru |
| Brixton, Elephant and Castle & Tooting | Koi Ramen Bar |
| Knightsbridge | Kinoya at Harrods |
Price guide: £ under £15 a bowl · ££ £15–£22 · £££ £25+.
Counters built around one style
Kanada-Ya
££ · Covent Garden · 4 min from Covent Garden
Kanada-Ya has two central branches: 64 St Giles High Street, WC2H 8DA, and 3 Panton Street, SW1Y 4DL. The group was founded in Yukuhashi, Japan, in 2009, and the menu is built around tonkotsu. Orders at St Giles go through a QR code on the table.
Kanada-Ya on St Giles High Street.
The Origin Tonkotsu (£16.60) is pork bone broth with chashu pork belly, spring onion and wood ear fungus. Tonkotsu X (£16.50), on the London menu only, mixes pork and corn-fed chicken bone broths and finishes with yuzu-shoyu. The Truffle (£20.95) adds porcini truffle paste and white truffle oil over pork loin. Vegan Spicy Yuzu (£16.95) is the vegan bowl, and the brothless Tofu Abura Soba (£16.95) and Pork Belly Abura Soba (£17.95) are thick egg noodles in sesame sauce with a very soft poached egg. A marinated egg is £2.50 extra.
St Giles takes no reservations; Piccadilly takes them through SevenRooms. Pick barikata, the firmest setting, which the menu recommends.
The venue’s site: kanada-ya.com
Book: Reserve a table
Monohon Ramen
££ · Shoreditch · 7 min from Old Street · walk-in only
Ian Wheatley left an office job, worked six months at Ippudo and launched Monohon as a pop-up in the summer of 2015 before taking the shop at 102 Old Street. It seats 32. The noodles are made in the kitchen every day from Japanese flour, and the pork broth is boiled for a whole day with kelp and shiitake.
A bowl at Monohon Ramen.
The Shouyu Tonkotsu (£15.50, £16.50 large) is soy seasoning in creamy pork soup with pork belly and wood ear mushrooms. The Abura Soba (£16, £17) is brothless: thick chewy noodles in a sesame-oil sauce with slow-cooked pork, fried shallots, cayenne and a very soft poached egg. The Spicy Tonkotsu (£19, £20) adds spicy miso pork mince, and the Vegan Tan Tan Men (£18.50, £19.50) has a creamy sesame soup with spicy miso-fried soy mince. A marinated egg is £2.50 extra on the soup bowls.
No reservations, and the whole party has to be there before you are seated. Monohon opens Monday to Friday 12:00 to 14:15 and 17:00 to 21:30, Saturday 17:00 to 21:30 and Sunday 17:00 to 21:00, and is closed on bank holidays. The counter seats nine in a row, and there is one table for four or five, easiest to get if you arrive before the 17:00 opening.
The venue’s site: monohonramen.com
Ramen Moto
Fitzrovia · 5 min from Goodge Street · walk-in only
Ramen Moto cooks Sapporo-style ramen at 6 Charlotte Street, with a second branch on the fifth floor of Harvey Nichols in Knightsbridge. Its centrepiece is a chicken white broth worked into a silky, foamy soup. The noodles come from Nishiyama Seimen of Sapporo, which Ramen Moto says it alone is licensed to use in London.
The Creamy Chicken Ramen is a chicken and pork broth with soft chicken, smoked pork chashu, a seasoned egg, burdock and black fungus. The rest of the list runs through Miso, Shoyu, Shio Yuzu, Spicy Tan Tan and a Veg Ramen in kombu and mushroom broth, with deep-fried shrimp rolls, karaage and crispy squid tentacles on the side.
Walk-in only, and closed on Tuesdays. Charlotte Street opens 12:00 to 15:00 and 16:30 to 21:30 on Mondays and Wednesdays to Fridays, and from 12:00 to 21:30 at weekends. Ramen Moto says it cannot guarantee a halal option.
The venue’s site: ramenmoto.uk
Ivan Ramen
££ · Clerkenwell · 9 min from Farringdon · walk-in only
Ivan Orkin, a New Yorker, opened his first ramen shop in Tokyo’s Setagaya ward in 2007 and later Ivan Ramen in New York. The London shop at 98 Farringdon Road opened in late 2025.
The bowls are Shoyu (£17) with shoyu-braised pork chashu and roasted tomato, Tonkotsu (£17), Tori Paitan (£18) with minced chicken and crispy togarashi chicken, Spicy Miso Red Chilli (£18), Roasted Garlic Tonkotsu (£18) and a vegan Truffled Veggie (£16). Cold Sesame Noodles (£17) come in a chilled sesame broth with pulled chilli chicken. Small plates include chicken gyoza and buttermilk karaage, and there are pastrami and fried chicken buns.
Walk-in only, and the weekday lunch is £15. From 12:00 to 15:00, Monday to Friday, the Shoyu, Tonkotsu and Truffled Veggie bowls drop to £15; adding three chicken gyoza is £1.95, and upgrading to the Tori Paitan or the Spicy Miso Red Chilli is £1. It opens 12:00 to 21:00 on Monday and Tuesday, 12:00 to 22:00 Wednesday to Saturday and 12:00 to 20:00 on Sunday.
The venue’s site: ivanramen.co.uk
Hakata Ramen + Bar
£ · Bermondsey · 16 min from Borough · walk-in only
Hakata Ramen + Bar at 177 Bermondsey Street has communal and bar-style seating only, and an izakaya bar (a Japanese pub that serves small plates) in the basement where waiting guests can have a drink.
Every ramen is £14.95 and comes with a soft-boiled egg, menma (bamboo shoots), beansprouts, spring onion and nori. Hakata Tonkotsu and Kumamoto use a 12-hour pork broth, Kumamoto with chashu, wood ear mushrooms, garlic chips and burnt garlic oil. Shoyu, Miso and Spicy Miso use a shiitake mushroom broth with a choice of pork, chicken or mushrooms. Each of the five has a vegan version. Noodles arrive hard unless you ask for soft or very hard. A Pork Katsu Sando is £8.95.
No reservations. It opens Monday and Tuesday 17:00 to 22:00, Wednesday to Friday 12:00 to 15:00 and 17:00 to 22:00, and Saturday and Sunday 12:00 to 22:00. The basement bar runs Wednesday to Saturday, 17:00 to 22:00.
The venue’s site: hakata.co.uk
Everyday bowls and neighbourhood counters
Tenmaru
££ · Fitzrovia · 2 min from Oxford Circus · walk-in only
Tenmaru opened in Finsbury Park in November 2019, at 8 Clifton Terrace, and added 50 Margaret Street, by Oxford Circus, in January 2023. It styles itself on a lively Japanese izakaya, and its ramen menu is built on a chicken broth, with four vegan bowls and a brothless mazesoba.
The Tori Paitan (£16.90) is topped with sous-vide chicken chashu, a seasoned egg, black fungus, bamboo shoots and spring onion. The Lemon Ramen (£17.50) adds fresh lemon. The Mazesoba (£17.90) is soup-less ramen with miso pork mince, chives, garlic, nori and a raw egg yolk, and the Tan Tan Men (£18.90) has pork mince, sesame and red chilli. The vegan bowls are Vegan Tonkotsu-flavour (£16.90), Vegan Lemon (£17.50), Vegan Spicy (£17.90) and Basil Ramen (£18.90). Yamitsuki Cabbage (£4.90), with salted kelp and ponzu, is the side.
Walk-in only at both branches. On weekdays both close from 15:00, reopening at 17:00 in Finsbury Park and 17:30 on Margaret Street, and Finsbury Park is closed on Mondays.
The venue’s site: tenmaru.co.uk
Koi Ramen Bar
£ · Brixton · 1 min from Brixton
Koi has five sites: Brixton Station Road, Sayer Street in Elephant and Castle, Tooting Market, Herne Hill and Aldgate East. The menu is one page of four ramens.
Eating in, the Pure White Tonkotsu is £12.95, the Mellow Miso £12.50, the Old Skool Shoyu £11.95 and the soup-less Naked Ramen £9.95; takeaway prices are £1 lower. Miso, Shoyu and Naked Ramen can be ordered with pork, chicken, tofu or prawn. A whole marinated egg is £2.25, and kaedama is £2.95.
Open from 11:30 daily, closing at 22:00, or 22:30 on Fridays and Saturdays, at Brixton, Elephant and Castle and Tooting.
The venue’s site: koiramenbar.co.uk
Taro
£ · Soho · 2 min from Piccadilly Circus
Mr Taro opened Taro at 61 Brewer Street in 1999 as an everyday Japanese dining room, a taishu shokudo. It seats 50 and its menu runs across ramen, udon, sushi and bento, so it suits a table where only some people want noodles. There are further branches in Finchley Central, Kennington, Balham, Pimlico and Walthamstow.
The Tonkotsu Ramen (£14.90) is a thick, milky pork-bone soup with roast pork, a boiled egg, seaweed, red ginger and beansprouts. The Taro Vegan Ramen (£14.90) is red and white miso broth with vegan noodles, fried tofu, grilled tomato, broccoli and wakame. There are also Chicken, Pork, Beef, Kimchi and Seafood ramens, and plainer Shoyu, Spicy and Moyashi bowls, from £12.90.
Open seven days, and it takes reservations, booked at least three hours ahead on its website or by phone. An optional 10% service charge is added.
The venue’s site: tarorestaurants.uk
Book: Reserve a table
Cocoro
£ · Bloomsbury · 5 min from Holborn
Cocoro at 25 Coptic Street is the Bloomsbury branch of a group with sites in Marylebone, Highgate and Bayswater, and describes its Bloomsbury dining as casual and izakaya-style. The menu runs from sushi and donburi to six ramens.
The Tonkotsu Ramen (pork broth) and Miso Tonkotsu Ramen are £14.50, and the Shoyu, Vegetable, Miso and Shio ramens are £14. Each takes a main topping of char siu pork, kara-age fried chicken or tofu katsu. A Ramen Salad with chilled ramen noodles, tomato and sesame dressing is £10.
Bookings are made on its own website, and Bloomsbury can seat groups of up to 50.
Booking: cocorobloomsbury.co.uk — book through their site
The chains, halal ramen and a luxury bowl
Tonkotsu
££ · Soho · 5 min from Leicester Square
Tonkotsu opened at 63 Dean Street in 2012, after a pop-up the year before, and now has restaurants across London. Noodles, broths, gyoza and katsu curries are made from scratch, and the noodles are cooked for 32 seconds. Soho has two floors, a few seats outside and beer on tap.
The namesake Tonkotsu (£15.95) is pork broth with lardo, roast pork belly, bamboo shoots, beansprouts and burnt garlic oil. Geki Kara (£16.95) is the extra-hot one, with scotch bonnet mash. Chilli Chicken (£15.95) and Kakugiri (£13.95) are chicken-broth bowls, and the vegan Japanese Mushroom Miso (£13.95) uses a konbu and shiitake broth. Every ramen comes in a small size for 25% off the listed price, and every non-vegan bowl has half a soy-marinated egg.
Weekday lunch is £10.50, Monday to Friday until 17:00, excluding bank holidays: a lunch-sized ramen or hiyashi (chilled noodle) salad plus a lunch-sized side. Soho takes bookings and leaves space for walk-ins.
The venue’s site: tonkotsu.co.uk
Book: Reserve a table
Ippudo
Covent Garden · walk-in only
Ippudo opened in Fukuoka in 1985 and runs four London shops: Central St Giles, Villiers Street, Goodge Street and Canary Wharf. Its UK menu says the pork broth is cooked for 18 hours and then matured for a further day. The brand’s design uses wooden signs, hand-dyed fabric dividers and jazz, with staff in samue robes.
Shiromaru Classic is the original creamy tonkotsu with thin straight noodles, pork belly chashu, kikurage, bean sprouts and bamboo shoots. Akamaru Modern adds a blended miso paste and garlic oil, and Karaka-Men adds a spicy miso paste, roasted cashew nuts and sansho pepper. Tori Shoyu, a lighter chicken bowl, is at Central St Giles only, and Hakata Niku Ton, with simmered sweet and spicy pork, is at Villiers Street only. There is also a Veggie Ramen with fried tofu.
It takes no reservations.
The venue’s site: ippudo.co.uk
Bone Daddies
Soho · 3 min from Leicester Square
Bone Daddies opened at 31 Peter Street, Soho, in 2012, and has since added Old Compton Street, Bermondsey, Bond Street, High Street Kensington, Leicester Square, Old Street and Victoria. Old Compton Street, at 14A, seats 80 across counter seats, low tables and group booths, with exposed brick, red neon and a classic-rock soundtrack.
Yuzu Tonkotsu at Bone Daddies. Photo: Andy Li, CC0 1.0.
The pork bowls are Tonkotsu [The OG] with chashu pork belly and burnt garlic, Yuzu Tonkotsu with fried chashu pork belly, Pork Pork Chilli and the hot Spicy Miso Tonkotsu. The chicken bowls are Tokyo Cock Cock, with fried chicken, “cock scratchings” and yuzu, T22 and Tantanmen. A new ramen is added every month, and a Breakfast Ramen of Cumberland sausage mince, hash browns and HP tonkatsu sauce is on the menu.
Peter Street takes bookings, and walk-ins are welcome. Both Soho branches open 10:00 to 22:00 Sunday to Wednesday and 10:00 to 23:00 Thursday to Saturday.
The venue’s site: bonedaddies.com
Book: Reserve a table
Shoryu Ramen
££ · Soho · 1 min from Piccadilly Circus
Tak Tokumine and Kanji Furukawa opened the first Shoryu in 2012. The West End branches are Soho (3 Denman Street), Regent Street, Covent Garden (Great Queen Street) and Carnaby (Kingly Court), with more in Shoreditch and Westfield Stratford City. The ramen is a 12-hour pork broth seasoned with a soy stock called motodare, and the noodles are made daily.
On the Soho menu the Origin Tonkotsu (£14.90) has three classic toppings and the Shoryu Ganso Tonkotsu (£15.90) adds a gooey orange-yolk egg, red ginger and nori. Kotteri Hakata Tonkotsu (£17.50) is the thicker, richer broth with a double egg, and Karamiso Tonkotsu (£17.50) is spicy miso. Vegan White Natural (£15.90) uses a tonyu soy milk broth. Braised pork belly buns are £6.95 each.
Takes bookings, each for 90 minutes, and keeps tables for walk-ins. Parties are seated only when complete. The Soho branch opens 11:00 to 23:00 on Mondays to Wednesdays, 23:30 on Thursdays and Fridays, midnight on Saturdays and 22:00 on Sundays. A 12.5% service charge is optional.
The venue’s site: shoryuramen.com
Book: Reserve a table
Maki & Ramen
£ · Soho · 3 min from Leicester Square
Teddy Lee opened the first Maki & Ramen in Edinburgh in 2015, and the Soho branch is at 9 Old Compton Street. All its chicken and beef is halal-certified, chicken gyoza excepted; the pork bowls are not, so say which you want.
The tonkotsu broth is cooked for eight hours. The Tonkotsu (£14.50) has chashu, wakame and a half egg, the Hell Ramen (£14.90) is a chilli-infused tonkotsu with chashu, and the Black Garlic Tonkotsu and Tantan are also £14.90. The halal-marked bowls include the Chicken ramen (£14.50), a lightly spiced miso broth with chicken karaage, and the Seafood Hell (£17.50). The vegan bowls are £14.50 to £14.90.
Open until midnight on Fridays and Saturdays (11:30 to 22:00 Sunday to Thursday), and it takes bookings on its website.
The venue’s site: makiramen.com
Book: Reserve a table
Uzumaki
££ · Bloomsbury · 2 min from Tottenham Court Road
Uzumaki at 107 Great Russell Street is an anime-themed Japanese restaurant, and its ramens are named for anime references.
The Naruto Ramen (£21.95) is tonkotsu broth with four slices of chashu pork, a whole marinated egg, naruto fishcake, menma and nori. The Halal Naruto Ramen (£21.95) swaps the pork for chashu chicken. The Bankai! Beef Ramen (£18.95) has glazed beef and charred corn, the Karai Goma Ramen (£17.95) is shiitake miso with spicy sesame paste and chicken chashu, and the Kakiage Udon (£16.95) is topped with vegetable kakiage tempura. Selected dishes are available halal.
Closed on Mondays, and it takes bookings through SevenRooms. It opens 11:30 to 21:30 Tuesday to Thursday and Sunday, and 11:30 to 22:00 on Fridays and Saturdays. A 12.5% service charge is added to the bill.
The venue’s site: uzumakilondon.com
Book: Reserve a table
Kinoya
£££ · Knightsbridge · 6 min from Knightsbridge
Kinoya at Harrods, on the ground floor at 87–135 Brompton Road, is the London branch of a Dubai ramen izakaya founded by Neha Mishra, whose flagship holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand. The London menu concentrates on ramen and sushi.
The Shio Paitan Ramen is a slow-cooked chicken broth with dashi, seared chicken and mayu (black garlic oil), £32.50 with chicken and £32.95 with pork. The Spicy Miso is the same price in a creamy chicken broth. The Shoyu is £36 with beef and £49.50 with A5 wagyu, the Duck is £36 and the Vegetarian £29.90.
Harrods adds a compulsory £1 cover charge per person, and a 12.5% service charge is discretionary. Kinoya takes bookings, and opens 11:30 to 21:00 on Mondays, 22:30 Tuesday to Saturday and 18:00 on Sundays.
The venue’s site: kinoya.com
Book: Reserve a table
What to know
- Monohon and Shoryu seat only complete parties. Monohon asks the whole group to be there before it seats anyone, and Shoryu does not seat incomplete parties.
- Check the closed days. Monohon is dinner only on Saturdays and Sundays, Hakata Ramen + Bar is dinner only on Mondays and Tuesdays, Ramen Moto is closed on Tuesdays, Uzumaki is closed on Mondays and Tenmaru’s Finsbury Park shop is closed on Mondays.
- Halal and vegetarian diners should ask about the broth. A chicken bowl can still sit on pork: Kanada-Ya’s Tonkotsu X blends pork and chicken bone broths, and Ramen Moto’s Creamy Chicken Ramen is a chicken and pork broth.
- Service charges differ. Monohon and Taro add an optional 10%; Shoryu, Hakata Ramen + Bar, Uzumaki and Kinoya 12.5%, and Kanada-Ya 12.5% for parties of six or more. Harrods adds its £1 cover charge at Kinoya.
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Common questions
What is the best ramen in London?
It depends on the style. For pork-bone tonkotsu, Kanada-Ya (64 St Giles High Street and 3 Panton Street) and Hakata Ramen + Bar on Bermondsey Street are the dedicated counters. For house-made noodles and brothless abura soba, go to Monohon Ramen on Old Street. For chicken broth, try Ramen Moto on Charlotte Street or Tenmaru, which has shops in Fitzrovia and Finsbury Park.
How much does a bowl of ramen cost in London?
A standard pork or chicken bowl costs £12.95 to £17 at most of the shops on this page: Koi Ramen Bar's tonkotsu is £12.95, Hakata Ramen + Bar's is £14.95, Kanada-Ya's Origin Tonkotsu is £16.60 and Ivan Ramen's tonkotsu is £17. Tonkotsu sells a lunch-sized ramen with a small side for £10.50 on weekdays until 17:00, and Ivan Ramen's weekday lunch bowls are £15. Kinoya in Harrods charges £29.90 to £49.50. Service is extra.
Do I need to book ramen restaurants in London?
Usually not. Kanada-Ya on St Giles High Street, Monohon Ramen, Ramen Moto, Ivan Ramen, Hakata Ramen + Bar, Tenmaru and Ippudo take no reservations. Kanada-Ya's Piccadilly branch, Tonkotsu, Shoryu Ramen, Bone Daddies, Taro in Soho, Maki & Ramen, Uzumaki, Cocoro and Kinoya do.
Where can I find halal ramen in London?
Maki & Ramen on Old Compton Street in Soho says all its chicken and beef is halal-certified, chicken gyoza excepted, so its chicken ramen (£14.50) is halal; its pork tonkotsu bowls are not. Uzumaki on Great Russell Street lists a Halal Naruto Ramen (£21.95) and says selected dishes are available halal. Ramen Moto says it has no halal option guaranteed. Most ramen broths start with pork bones, so ask before ordering anywhere else.
Where can I eat vegan ramen in London?
Hakata Ramen + Bar makes a vegan version of each of its five ramens (£14.95). Taro in Soho serves a Vegan Ramen in red and white miso broth (£14.90), and Tonkotsu's Japanese Mushroom Miso is £13.95. Kanada-Ya's Vegan Spicy Yuzu is £16.95, Ivan Ramen's Truffled Veggie is £16, Tenmaru has four vegan bowls (£16.90 to £18.90) and Monohon Ramen's Vegan Tan Tan Men is £18.50 (£19.50 large).
What do barikata and kaedama mean on a London ramen menu?
Barikata means very firm noodles. The scale at Kanada-Ya runs from yawa (soft) through futsu (regular) and kata (firm) to barikata. Kaedama is a second portion of noodles for the broth you have left: £2.95 at Kanada-Ya, Hakata Ramen + Bar and Koi Ramen Bar, and £3.50 at Monohon Ramen and Shoryu Ramen. Tonkotsu charges £2 for extra noodles.
