Taishoken San francisco

This restaurant l restaurant has a handful of minor flaws for their higher prices.

We started with their happy hour appetizers: TSK fries and fried cauliflower. The fries tasted great with the seasoning, but it kept falling off so most bites were plain. The cauliflower was well-executed but uninteresting. We also tried a sake flight, which was excellent and showed a lot of variety.

For mains, we ordered dipping noodles and spicy miso ramen. The ramen has excellent ingredients including lucious pork belly and a perfectly done egg. However, the broth was salty and oily enough to slightly upset the stomach. The dipping noodles were very high quality with flavorful broth, but we generally preferred the ramen on our return visit. The pork rice bowl is an amazing value at $10 and is a meal in itself; it's my new favorite dish. Most mains are $22.

The first time service was very attentive, verging on overbearing. The second time was better. The interior atmosphere is beautiful, although it gets pretty loud when busy. Finally, we were disappointed to see that all of their new promotional signs are made with AI.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 4

Service: 5

Superb service. Excellent food.

Service: 5

Spicy ramen was delicious! The fried chicken was tender, gyoza were crispy and the meat inside was flavorful! Tried the yuzu mimosa and it was wonderfully refreshing.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Delicious ramen broth (cooked over 2 days), delicate agedashi tofu and great service in this small restaurant in the Mission District. Happy hour from opening until 6 daily.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 5

One of the best ramen places in the city. The menu is quite simple but has all the types of ramen/noodle/appetizer dishes you’d want. I highly recommend the fried cauliflower happy hour dish. Of the ramen choices, there really isn’t a bad option. I really appreciated the rich, flavorful broth and they did not skimp on the toppings. Would definitely come again

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

I love the ramen here, full of flavor! I bring all my friends who visit, it’s really good

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 4

The tsukemen, as expected, was very good. I could’ve spared myself the appetizers. The calamari was a bit bland and the gyoza were deep fried vs. pan fried. I don’t think that’s a matter of personal taste but more likely a faster pick-up. It wasn’t what I was expecting at a Japanese eatery with any authenticity. The service was fine. Watching a particular person stack the dishes as high as possible was amusing if nothing else. I’m glad I tried the noodle. It was memorable.

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 4

Service: 3

Stars of the show. Shio Soba, mazemen, and Taro mochi donut. Staff were all super friendly. Tsukemen noodles excellent, broth was very citrus forward. We generally prefer a stronger fish umami tsukemen broth.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 4

Service: 5

Food was very meh unfortunately. My friend couldn't finish their food and didn't want to take the food to go because they didn't enjoy food at all.

Same for me honestly. I tried their signature specially dry taishoken (?) noodles with soup on the side but.. Unfortunately not the most appeasing for me.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 3

Service: 5

Great food

From the service, presentation and taste. This is a top ramen place in the city. Head and shoulders above other nearby places. Don’t be confused by its casual setting, they clearly put a lot into the craftsmanship of ramen.

Authentic Tsukemen Ramen. Soup has a slight yuzu flavor that is very tasty.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Pretty good but wish they had more taukemen options on the menu like with ホルモン 👀

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 4

Service: 5

Had the soba noodle ramen 🍜 Toppings were on point, broth really good and tangy noodles. I'm impressed, good work Taishoken

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Had fried chicken appetizer & ramen. Very disappointed with both. The chicken was just awful. Way too much batter & over fried. Ramen broth was way too salty & had no creaminess of good bone broth. At least the noodle was cooked properly. $40 very disappointed.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 2

Service: 3