Maru Ramen Bar

We came on a weekday for lunch and ordered pork cheek ramen and maru ramen. The wait wasn't long for food to be served. The portion was quite big, and they gave generous portions.

The pork cheek was easy to eat and chew. I quite enjoyed it. The noodles' texture wasn't too hard to bite. My hubby enjoyed his Maru ramen bowl, with lots of toppings. The staff was friendly.

The restaurant is connected to Moo Moo Tea Shop if you want to get a drink.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 4

Service: 4

Ramen was great, I would in liked the eggs be marinated for longer and the yolk a more custard consistency. Bulgogi fries were a highlight with a cold beer.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 4

Service: 4

Recommended dishes: Bulgogi Fries

Too pricey and bad quality, overly salty with no veggies for their tonkotsu. A traditional soup should be complete with everything!!! I just taste salt overly salted. They burn the pork with a burner I think and is disgusting! It ruined the whole soup taste and flavor, just bitter! I came so far for nothing. Their chilli oil is just plain red oil, and not even the expensive garlic chilli oil, that’s disappointing for the price! For this price $20, another place has a complete ramen soup with all the veggies and not bitter burnt meat! Truly bad quality and waste of money! Yuck!

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 1

Service: 2

Have to top this off as the best ramen house in Elk Grove. Something about the flavoring makes it special and hard to replicate. Good service as well

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

I've eaten a fair amount of Ramen. This ranks amongst the best. I had the Maru Ramen and from the moment the bowl was placed onto the table, I could smell the deep aroma of flavor. Let's start with the garlic and the pork broth...was great from first taste to last drop. Perfect amount of spice heat but not too spicy and same for salt level. Ramen has a bite and the pork Char siu has that nice char and was excellent but was second to the generous pork cheek slices. Both char siu and pork cheeks were buttery tender and luscious. I'm not sure of the toppings but I truly enjoyed this bowl of yummy.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

If you want a refund don't go ask the manager, she'll cuss you out.
On Friday I ordered two ramen bowls on a third party website (DoorDash) and wanted to go pick it up at a later time which was around 8:20-8:30pm but they close at 9pm and I got a text saying that my order is getting ready around the time I asked to go pick up. I will say it is my fault that I was so far away to go pick it up and I tried having someone go pick it up for me but couldn't do so. I told the staff member that I would be late to pick it up and how long are they willing to wait for. He said they'll wait around 9:05pm and my eta was 9:11pm so I told him hey I won't be able to make it at all can you issue a refund for me and he said yes but it would take 3 days for my refund. I said alright then. Three days has come by and I haven't gotten my refund at all. I called and told one of the staff members my issue and she said she couldn't do anything about it and that she'll have her manager call me. I waited for a minute or so for manager to call me and she told me that because I ordered it on a third party website, it is their responsibility to issue my refund not her's and she told me to call DoorDash. I did and the person that helped me out said that because its been more than 24-48 hours that I called she couldn't issue my refund and then she explained why she couldn't and that I should've called doordash ASAP for the refund and then I told her that the person that took my call on Friday didn't tell me to call DoorDash but promised me that I will get my refund. We had a three way call with the store and manager wasn't on duty and the girl I had called earlier answered the phone again and I told her what happened ands told me she can't do much because she has no upper power for it and I understand she couldn't do much and that she was just an employee not a manager. While the person from doordash tried calling the manager, manager didn't pick up, I'm not sure what number they gave to the person but I told the person the number that called me and the person called the manager and the conclusion that they told me was that when the manager answered she sounded mad and didn't want to talk to me at all and said what she told me that it's not her responsibility to issue the refund and cussed at the poor person saying that none of her staff members promised anything to me and wouldn't do so but how can the manager know when she wasn't even working the day of? I'm honestly not mad at the fact I didn't get my refund anymore, It's the fact that the person trying to help me out got cussed out for doing her job.

I just moved to Elk Grove last summer and just found out about this spot. My partner is vegan, so we were looking for a good spot for vegan ramen. We absolutely love their vegan tantanmen ramen! It has a rich smokey spicy flavor and the noodles are always cooked well.

Easily best ramen in EG. I’ve tried ramen from all over this area, and this one beats them in every way. So much good flavor in the broth and the toppings and the noodles etc. Love it! Don’t even bother with the other places.

Obscured from easy perception off of Elk Grove Blvd, this little ramen bar is more than worth the stop. Are you exhausted by all the chain restaurant experiences? Do you crave an explosion of flavor that dances on your taste buds well after you've finished your meal? Try these folks out. My server was Tu, I'm unsure of the proper spelling of their name, and they were just amazing! They guided me to the perfect selection for my taste and I was not disappointed.

Fantastic ramen and reasonable price, the broth and pork is flavorful with alot of umami. My go to spot when it comes to ramen even though I am a few miles from this masterpiece. Fries are great hits the spot after a hangover

Maru has some really good Ramen. I would certainly recommend coming here for lunch or dinner. They don't have a kids menu, but they do have Noodles and broth only for the little ones (I didn't see it on the menu) but the server did offer it to us which was helpful.

Very good Ramen - I had the spicy one. Broth and noodles were great. Good service as well.

This place is very cozy and clean. Great service. It was my first time and, I was impressed.

Cute ramen bar. Currently my favorite ramen location. The broth is rich and they are not stingy on the meat. Pork belly fries are delicious too. Definitely unhealthy but so so delicious.

I order for to go. Their service is fast.
The taste also good. I will go again if I have a chance.