Nice genuinely Japanese decor and seating arrangement, perfect quality food and friendly service. Great location
April MacFarlan
We love this place because they have excellent ramen and fun Japanese style seating areas, but the service is always so slow.We've been here at least a dozen times over the past two years for either early dinner (4:30 or 5p), or regular time dinner (6 or 7p), and every single time the wait staff service is ridiculously slow at all the interactions: coming to our table to greet us, bringing water, coming to take our order, checking on us during the meal (never), clearing plates, bringing the bill.We would probably spend a lot more money here if the wait person would check on us during our meal or even ask if we wanted dessert.If you have lots of time, I highly recommend this place for their ramen.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 2
Recommended dishes: Kumamoto Ramen
Sherry Padgett
Favorite place to eat in Portland!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Kumamoto Ramen, Small Abu Ramen, Agedashi Tofu, Negihama Hand Roll, Shigezo Roll
Jon Walker Deming
the side of my booth was wobbly, so that when the person in the next booth leaned back it pushed on my back.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 5
Service: 5
Kristin Drinnon
I got the Kumamoto Ramen: house-made noodles in a pork and chicken broth with chashu pork. It was delicious, but the portion size was much smaller than what I’m used to at other ramen restaurants and the price is much more expensive. The amount of chashu pork was also much smaller. Ironically, the spoon was 3x bigger than I’m used to at ramen restaurants.I also got a Spicy Salmon Roll. For the price of $13, I was expecting it to be at least 8 pieces, but it was only 6 pieces. The sushi itself was average.There is better ramen and sushi at cheaper prices elsewhere.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 4
Service: 5
Carlo Irigoyen
Traditional Japanese fair with traditional flavors- not super salty or sweet. Beautiful ambiance.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 4
Service: 4
Erick F.
The worst experience. Awful slow service. Giving me the wrong order. I wouldn't go back if someone paid me to eat here.
Marcel Arthur França
Food was
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
pious techpriest
Amazing japanese food. Guoza and Raman in particular come highly recommended.
Edit: This place is unrecognizable. It’s a real shame because this used to be my favorite restaurant downtown. Don’t bother coming here. Even getting seated is a challenge, and it’s all downhill from there.Brothless ramen is super great, sushi is amazing, service is fine, variety of items on the menu is wonderful. I come here for happy hour like once a week
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 2
Service: 1
Keiko C.
A friend and I, came to this establishment excited to have sushi, ramen and dessert. We were greeted at the door, appropriately, but after seating us and giving us water, that was the last appropriate gesture of our stay. We then sat, unattended, for more than 10 minutes without anyone coming to ask if we needed help with the menu or if we were ready to order. The young man who sat us, brought the check to the adjacent table, food to two others and cleaned two tables. In the time it took him to do all of that he still never checked on us. We decided to leave, and on the way out, after not saying anything else, he said , "Have a good night." This was one of the worst restaurant experience I've had since moving to Portland.
Otto G.
I am not a Japanese food lover, But something about this place is great! This place inspired me to explore a new genre of food
CHRISTINA RICHARDSON
The food is amazing. So expensive though and they hate to give you any wasabi ?
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 5
Service: 2
mobile squared PDX
Food was good. Atmosphere was good. Little disappointed in the service and also the fact that you have to ba Sriracha along with other sauces. They charge a dollar for a teaspoon of sriracha. Really good food though. We took our Sriracha home with us though. Next time we'll be bringing our own bottle.
Nice genuinely Japanese decor and seating arrangement, perfect quality food and friendly service. Great location
We love this place because they have excellent ramen and fun Japanese style seating areas, but the service is always so slow.We've been here at least a dozen times over the past two years for either early dinner (4:30 or 5p), or regular time dinner (6 or 7p), and every single time the wait staff service is ridiculously slow at all the interactions: coming to our table to greet us, bringing water, coming to take our order, checking on us during the meal (never), clearing plates, bringing the bill.We would probably spend a lot more money here if the wait person would check on us during our meal or even ask if we wanted dessert.If you have lots of time, I highly recommend this place for their ramen.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 2
Recommended dishes: Kumamoto Ramen
Favorite place to eat in Portland!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Kumamoto Ramen, Small Abu Ramen, Agedashi Tofu, Negihama Hand Roll, Shigezo Roll
the side of my booth was wobbly, so that when the person in the next booth leaned back it pushed on my back.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 5
Service: 5
I got the Kumamoto Ramen: house-made noodles in a pork and chicken broth with chashu pork. It was delicious, but the portion size was much smaller than what I’m used to at other ramen restaurants and the price is much more expensive. The amount of chashu pork was also much smaller. Ironically, the spoon was 3x bigger than I’m used to at ramen restaurants.I also got a Spicy Salmon Roll. For the price of $13, I was expecting it to be at least 8 pieces, but it was only 6 pieces. The sushi itself was average.There is better ramen and sushi at cheaper prices elsewhere.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 4
Service: 5
Traditional Japanese fair with traditional flavors- not super salty or sweet. Beautiful ambiance.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 4
Service: 4
The worst experience. Awful slow service. Giving me the wrong order. I wouldn't go back if someone paid me to eat here.
Food was
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Amazing japanese food. Guoza and Raman in particular come highly recommended.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
The food is not
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 3
Restaurantji Recommends
Edit: This place is unrecognizable. It’s a real shame because this used to be my favorite restaurant downtown. Don’t bother coming here. Even getting seated is a challenge, and it’s all downhill from there.Brothless ramen is super great, sushi is amazing, service is fine, variety of items on the menu is wonderful. I come here for happy hour like once a week
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 2
Service: 1
A friend and I, came to this establishment excited to have sushi, ramen and dessert. We were greeted at the door, appropriately, but after seating us and giving us water, that was the last appropriate gesture of our stay. We then sat, unattended, for more than 10 minutes without anyone coming to ask if we needed help with the menu or if we were ready to order. The young man who sat us, brought the check to the adjacent table, food to two others and cleaned two tables. In the time it took him to do all of that he still never checked on us. We decided to leave, and on the way out, after not saying anything else, he said , "Have a good night." This was one of the worst restaurant experience I've had since moving to Portland.
I am not a Japanese food lover, But something about this place is great! This place inspired me to explore a new genre of food
The food is amazing. So expensive though and they hate to give you any wasabi ?
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 5
Service: 2
Food was good. Atmosphere was good. Little disappointed in the service and also the fact that you have to ba Sriracha along with other sauces. They charge a dollar for a teaspoon of sriracha. Really good food though. We took our Sriracha home with us though. Next time we'll be bringing our own bottle.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 4
Recommended dishes: Shoyu Ramen