The best ramen in London

• Bone Daddies

  ££

  JapaneseRock-and-roll ramenSoho3 min from Leicester Square

  Ramen with a deliberate Western slant and a soundtrack to match - the bowl that made ramen a night out in London rather than a quick lunch.

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• Cocoro

  ££

  JapaneseAll-round JapaneseBloomsbury5 min from Holborn

  Open since 2006 and the sort of place Japanese office groups and families actually eat - sushi, sukiyaki and a tonkotsu ramen that punches above the room.

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• Hakata Ramen + Bar

  ££

  JapaneseKyushu tonkotsu ramenBermondsey16 min from Borough

  Named for the Fukuoka district the style comes from, doing Kyushu tonkotsu on Bermondsey Street with enough room to actually sit down.

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• Kanada-Ya

  ££

  JapaneseTonkotsu ramenCovent Garden4 min from Covent Garden

  The broth recipe was worked out in Fukuoka before the first London site opened, and the queue outside the St Giles branch has become part of the experience.

  No bookings. The queue is shortest before noon and after 2pm.

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• Monohon Ramen

  ££

  JapaneseRamen barShoreditch7 min from Old Street

  A single-site ramen bar on Old Street that takes no reservations and has outlasted most of the chains that opened around it.

  No reservations - walk in and wait.

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• Ramo Ramen

  ££

  JapaneseFilipino-Japanese ramenSoho4 min from Piccadilly Circus

  Ramen run through Filipino cooking rather than beside it - the oxtail kare kare bowl is the dish the whole place is built around.

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• Shoryu Ramen

  ££

  JapaneseHakata tonkotsu ramenSoho1 min from Piccadilly Circus

  Hakata-style tonkotsu across a spread of central sites, which makes it the ramen you can actually get into when the single-site places have queues out the door.

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