Ramen down the street is much tastier. Was disappointed
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 2
Service: 3
Alex Drake (Adrake1234)
The food was amazing 10/10 best ramen I've had in a long time. Would highly recommend this place for take out. The two down falls of this place for me is ramen places are notorious fast we waiting in the restaurant for about 45-60 minutes to get our food. Secondly, I'm not one to complain about the music but danm was it loud for a nice small quant ramen place they were basting the music so loud both inside and outside it was very hard to hear the person sitting next to me.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 5
Service: 3
Laurie Collis
Worst experience in a long, long time. Went on the Saturday evening of Labor Day weekend. Place was 1/4 full. Adult daughter and I were given the choice of sitting outside, on top of hedges crawling with bees (although there were 3 empty middle tables,) or inside. We went inside and were then ordered to sit in the corner, right near the kitchen (although only one other table was occupied) “in case other people come!!!!” We quietly left. The greeter actually said “It’s good that you’re leaving!!!!” Then….the greeter & manager actually followed us down the street, loudly telling every other restaurants not to serve us!!!!! Wow…just wow! I’ve lived in Newton my entire life & have never, ever encountered the level of arrogance and downright creepiness that these two displayed. It makes me wonder. If this is how they treat a white, middle aged Newton woman and her adult daughter, how are they to others they don’t like??
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
Jenna Malley
Vegetarian options: The menu is small, but there are definitely vegetarian options or things that can be made vegetarian! It’s great!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Kara-Age Fried Chicken
j
Great spot! I’ve been here a couple of times and the ramen is always delicious. The space is quite small and without a reservation, expect to wait 20 - 30 minutes for a table.
N G
Mediocre food, mediocre service, expensive for what we got and lots of fruit flies surrounding our food that we had to constantly swat away. It’s off the list for ramen. Just go to Coco Ramen, It’s better.
Nick S
The atmosphere was great, service was great as well. The servers were knowledgeable and brought the food out in a timely manner. They were also very friendly and recommended the best options for our party.
Unfortunately the food wasn’t the best and I had my expectations high due to everyone raving about the place. I got the chef’s ultra ramen. My personal opinion is that a ramen is characterized by a great broth and ingredients, which unfortunately it had neither. The noodles were decent, but the rest of the ingredients didn’t really feel like it matched the ramen. The broth was salty but also felt flavorless, just salt. The best part of my meal was the Karage chicken, which did have great flavor and a good taste.
I probably won’t go here again unless I am with friends.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 2
Service: 4
Recommended dishes: Kara-Age Fried Chicken
Vince hatthaphun
Terrible servers and didnt even get food I ordered + I got food way to late even the table that came after us got food before me
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
Spryk S
Food is soso not really real Japanese ramen which i didn’t expected anyway. But service was poor. Gave us appetizer and after appetizer gone for 35min, other 2-3 table who came long after us got food and almost finished…. We still haven’t got our food. Not recommended!! Guy waiter even asked us “so what do you want? Want to take home instead?”” And what specific table who got food before you?” I pointed to them.. He goes “oh coz they didn’t have appetizer, you have appetizer so we want you to finished first” I was “but we finished half an hour ago” He was “oh sorry for that then”
Speechless….
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 1
Service: 1
Hassaan Khan
The food was disappointing unfortunately. The only good item was ramen. We got poke bowl, rice bowl with grilled chicken, rice bowl with fried chicken and ramen. Came at 4:30pm on Saturday. Also got their shrimp tacos for appetizer. It was delicious.
Rice was really bad. Felt a bit uncooked but I think it was the type of cheap rice that was used. Food didn't have much flavor imo. They could put some more vegetables in the bowl. Otherwise, it's just cucumbers and thinly sliced carrots. Flavor just wasn't there in any of the rice bowls.
My husband and I visiting for the first time wanted to have some Ramen and found Little big diner, and we were very pleased with the flavor of the Ramen and the service,Would definitely recommend and coming back.
Vegetarian options: I was able to do the spicy miso Ramen vegetarian.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Spicy Miso Ramen
Lucas
Best ramen in greater boston and I’ve tried some of the “best”. I’d recommend the lbd paitan ramen and make sure to get chashu pork, it’s just as good as in Japan.
Gaurav Singal
Spectacular veggie ramen with Heiwa tofu!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
meli
i LOVE little big diner, it's probably one of my favorite restaurants in the area, and it's definitely my favorite ramen place around. i'm vegetarian, so the options are typically fairly limited, but the vegetarian spicy miso ramen is my absolute favorite.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Spicy Miso Ramen
Melanie
i LOVE little big diner, it's probably one of my favorite restaurants in the area, and it's definitely my favorite ramen place around. i'm vegetarian, so the options are typically fairly limited, but the vegetarian spicy miso ramen is my absolute favorite.
Ramen down the street is much tastier. Was disappointed
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 2
Service: 3
The food was amazing 10/10 best ramen I've had in a long time. Would highly recommend this place for take out. The two down falls of this place for me is ramen places are notorious fast we waiting in the restaurant for about 45-60 minutes to get our food. Secondly, I'm not one to complain about the music but danm was it loud for a nice small quant ramen place they were basting the music so loud both inside and outside it was very hard to hear the person sitting next to me.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 5
Service: 3
Worst experience in a long, long time.
Went on the Saturday evening of Labor Day weekend. Place was 1/4 full. Adult daughter and I were given the choice of sitting outside, on top of hedges crawling with bees (although there were 3 empty middle tables,) or inside. We went inside and were then ordered to sit in the corner, right near the kitchen (although only one other table was occupied) “in case other people come!!!!”
We quietly left. The greeter actually said “It’s good that you’re leaving!!!!”
Then….the greeter & manager actually followed us down the street, loudly telling every other restaurants not to serve us!!!!!
Wow…just wow! I’ve lived in Newton my entire life & have never, ever encountered the level of arrogance and downright creepiness that these two displayed.
It makes me wonder. If this is how they treat a white, middle aged Newton woman and her adult daughter, how are they to others they don’t like??
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
Vegetarian options: The menu is small, but there are definitely vegetarian options or things that can be made vegetarian! It’s great!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Kara-Age Fried Chicken
Great spot! I’ve been here a couple of times and the ramen is always delicious. The space is quite small and without a reservation, expect to wait 20 - 30 minutes for a table.
Mediocre food, mediocre service, expensive for what we got and lots of fruit flies surrounding our food that we had to constantly swat away. It’s off the list for ramen. Just go to Coco Ramen, It’s better.
The atmosphere was great, service was great as well. The servers were knowledgeable and brought the food out in a timely manner. They were also very friendly and recommended the best options for our party.
Unfortunately the food wasn’t the best and I had my expectations high due to everyone raving about the place. I got the chef’s ultra ramen. My personal opinion is that a ramen is characterized by a great broth and ingredients, which unfortunately it had neither. The noodles were decent, but the rest of the ingredients didn’t really feel like it matched the ramen. The broth was salty but also felt flavorless, just salt. The best part of my meal was the Karage chicken, which did have great flavor and a good taste.
I probably won’t go here again unless I am with friends.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 2
Service: 4
Recommended dishes: Kara-Age Fried Chicken
Terrible servers and didnt even get food I ordered + I got food way to late even the table that came after us got food before me
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
Food is soso not really real Japanese ramen which i didn’t expected anyway. But service was poor. Gave us appetizer and after appetizer gone for 35min, other 2-3 table who came long after us got food and almost finished…. We still haven’t got our food. Not recommended!!
Guy waiter even asked us “so what do you want? Want to take home instead?”” And what specific table who got food before you?”
I pointed to them..
He goes “oh coz they didn’t have appetizer, you have appetizer so we want you to finished first”
I was “but we finished half an hour ago”
He was “oh sorry for that then”
Speechless….
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 1
Service: 1
The food was disappointing unfortunately. The only good item was ramen. We got poke bowl, rice bowl with grilled chicken, rice bowl with fried chicken and ramen. Came at 4:30pm on Saturday. Also got their shrimp tacos for appetizer. It was delicious.
Rice was really bad. Felt a bit uncooked but I think it was the type of cheap rice that was used. Food didn't have much flavor imo. They could put some more vegetables in the bowl. Otherwise, it's just cucumbers and thinly sliced carrots. Flavor just wasn't there in any of the rice bowls.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 2
Service: 5
Restaurantji Recommends
My husband and I visiting for the first time wanted to have some Ramen and found Little big diner, and we were very pleased with the flavor of the Ramen and the service,Would definitely recommend and coming back.
Vegetarian options: I was able to do the spicy miso Ramen vegetarian.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Spicy Miso Ramen
Best ramen in greater boston and I’ve tried some of the “best”. I’d recommend the lbd paitan ramen and make sure to get chashu pork, it’s just as good as in Japan.
Spectacular veggie ramen with Heiwa tofu!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
i LOVE little big diner, it's probably one of my favorite restaurants in the area, and it's definitely my favorite ramen place around. i'm vegetarian, so the options are typically fairly limited, but the vegetarian spicy miso ramen is my absolute favorite.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Spicy Miso Ramen
i LOVE little big diner, it's probably one of my favorite restaurants in the area, and it's definitely my favorite ramen place around. i'm vegetarian, so the options are typically fairly limited, but the vegetarian spicy miso ramen is my absolute favorite.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Spicy Miso Ramen
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