Hello Kōbō Team, we visited your business last week. The service was impeccable and efficient. Your waitress knew her menu well, but the familiarity was surprising from the start. I guess we're starting to get old fashioned. We had starters, ramen, dessert and sake. It was a good bill! Everything was very tasty. The pork belly ramen contained no pieces of meat, only fat. We asked if this was normal and it seems so. Strange, because there's usually always meat on bacon. For the chicken plate, it was very dry and fortunately the broth allowed us to get it through. Our neighbors made the same observation. However, we expect to be served on suitable plates, particularly for the price of said dish. $18 to eat on (all!) chipped plates is not professional or healthy, in our opinion. The porous part cannot be washed properly, unfortunately. That said, the house mocktail was perfect and the cheesecake was very good.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 2
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Tonkotsu Ramen Avec Flanc de Porc, Mocktail Maison
Max Goud
Super good ramen, the best. Always quality service and our young children love the restaurant!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Bao Bun
Patrik Labont
The food is excellent, a good
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 3
Chuck Rodes
After i ate from this horrible place of a resto I was sick to my stomach !the noodles were completely soggy and the chicken was uncooked ,I seen a chef in the kitchen put everything in the microwave & the bathroom was horrendous , not 1 Japanese person works there just a Mexican looking lady who was screaming at a waitress.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
Caroline Théberge
Delicious soups among others, although a little too salty for my taste, but hey, a friend of mine says that she puts love in her dishes when she adds salt, so let's say that there is a lot of love !The staff is super friendly, considerate, professional. Beautiful young people (Matante is 43 years old) who visibly love what they do and have fun doing it as a team. Honestly a great discovery, we will definitely come back to enjoy and discover other dishes.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 4
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Tonkotsu Ramen Avec Flanc de Porc
Jane Willis
Our first experience at Kobo 10/10. Already looking forward to going back!Everything was delicious and “on point”.Excellent service and great atmosphere!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Bao Bun, Amerikan Ramen
Audrey LAFITTE
Fresh, tasty, friendly, trendy. Very nice discovery. We will go back!!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Tonkotsu Ramen Avec Flanc de Porc
marco legras
I ate ramen this evening and it's not a Japanese restaurant. The noodles taste like cheap pasta from Walmart. The kitchen just put soy sauce on my egg and it was super salty. The broth tastes like the remaining filtered litter. The vegetables taste as if they had been purchased in the expired section of the Joliette maxi. Seriously I don't recommend this restaurant. Take your car and go to tsukuyomi ramen in Montreal or kinton ramen. I will never return to restaurant.
Recommended dishes: Shouyu Ramen
Jessy Cleroux Bergeron
The recipes for noodles and tonkutsu broth have changed and are made super bland. I felt like I was eating soup with water.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 1
Service: 5
ogkworldclass M
The welcome boys were super energetic..a great welcome the cook was super friendly I was spending a Wednesday..thanks
The tonkotsu ramen broth tasted like bath water. It had a nice color so I was excited but it was bland and the little flavor there was wasn't right. The bao buns were dry. It has so much potential. We need japanese food in sherbrooke. The meats were all good the eggs were done very well but the broth was unacceptable for a ramen place. The sauce on the bao was also too sweet and salty like a cheap store bought hoising sauce with salt added. The head chef needs to take a trip to Toronto or even MTL to try some good ramen places and understand the flavors they need to achieve. You guys can take this place to next level without too much effort or investment and truly become a sherbrooke staple.I'll go back to try the chicken broth because I desperately want japanese food but I'm dissapointed and have low hopes.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 1
Service: 4
Raffaele A. G. (theraf90)
The food is awesome and the atmosphere is great!I definitely recommend this restaurant!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Samantha Godard
Because it’s downtown, it’s a bit hard to find parking. Just remember to park downhill if you can because you don’t want to be walking uphill to your car with a tummy full of ramen lolAs for the food, we tried the Takoyaki which was a little small but it seemed to be deep fried instead of the traditional pan-fried so it was super crispy and the flavour was delicious.Next we had the Bao buns. I expected an enclosed steamed bun with a ground pork filling but instead it was a steamed bun sliced open and filled with shredded pork meat, cucumber and sliced green onion, smothered in a sauce. It was okay, the sauce is way too salty and ruined it. I wouldn’t order it again.Finally we tried the Tonkotsu ramen. The broth was not as flavourful as other broths I’ve tried in the past but the bok choy was cooked perfectl’y and the noodles had a great texture. However, the star of this dish was the pork belly. Instead of the traditional slice of rolled up belly, this place serves two rectangular chunks of belly, which is the perfect amount. It is so tender, rich and fatty but not overwhelming because they torch it to give it an amazing char. The bitterness and smokiness of the char is an explosion of complementary flavours.I will definitely be coming back to try the other ramens but be assured that I will be paying extra to add that pork belly to whatever dish I order.Parking: You can park in the large parking garage next to Siboire then walk up the hill to the restaurant if you can’t find street parking. This is what we did. Walking up the hill on an empty stomach and down with one full of ramen is the best option if you can’t get a spot on Wellington.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Olivier Arsenault
Had the karaage chicken as appetizer, very crispy exterior and good quality chicken, the sauce complemented the dish well. My friend had the kimchi, very spicy, good balance between the vegetable and sour marinade. The tonkotsu ramen was pretty good, the broth was creamy but lacked a bit of flavor, the noodle were excellent, the pork belly was tender and flavourful and the whole thing was well put together. Great service and calm comfy ambiance. Small but good choice of beer.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
Lara Willis
Karaage chicken and totoyaki entrees were good. Recommend trying the chicken!Ordered the tonkotsu ramen and the broth was quite bland. The noodles were oily and the soup had hardly any flavour. We were really hoping for a great ramen experience and this did not unfortunately live up to our expectations.Service was friendly and quick. Nice decor in the space
Hello Kōbō Team, we visited your business last week. The service was impeccable and efficient. Your waitress knew her menu well, but the familiarity was surprising from the start. I guess we're starting to get old fashioned. We had starters, ramen, dessert and sake. It was a good bill! Everything was very tasty. The pork belly ramen contained no pieces of meat, only fat. We asked if this was normal and it seems so. Strange, because there's usually always meat on bacon. For the chicken plate, it was very dry and fortunately the broth allowed us to get it through. Our neighbors made the same observation. However, we expect to be served on suitable plates, particularly for the price of said dish. $18 to eat on (all!) chipped plates is not professional or healthy, in our opinion. The porous part cannot be washed properly, unfortunately. That said, the house mocktail was perfect and the cheesecake was very good.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 2
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Tonkotsu Ramen Avec Flanc de Porc, Mocktail Maison
Super good ramen, the best. Always quality service and our young children love the restaurant!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Bao Bun
The food is excellent, a good
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 3
After i ate from this horrible place of a resto I was sick to my stomach !the noodles were completely soggy and the chicken was uncooked ,I seen a chef in the kitchen put everything in the microwave & the bathroom was horrendous , not 1 Japanese person works there just a Mexican looking lady who was screaming at a waitress.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
Delicious soups among others, although a little too salty for my taste, but hey, a friend of mine says that she puts love in her dishes when she adds salt, so let's say that there is a lot of love !The staff is super friendly, considerate, professional. Beautiful young people (Matante is 43 years old) who visibly love what they do and have fun doing it as a team. Honestly a great discovery, we will definitely come back to enjoy and discover other dishes.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 4
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Tonkotsu Ramen Avec Flanc de Porc
Our first experience at Kobo 10/10. Already looking forward to going back!Everything was delicious and “on point”.Excellent service and great atmosphere!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Bao Bun, Amerikan Ramen
Fresh, tasty, friendly, trendy. Very nice discovery. We will go back!!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Tonkotsu Ramen Avec Flanc de Porc
I ate ramen this evening and it's not a Japanese restaurant. The noodles taste like cheap pasta from Walmart. The kitchen just put soy sauce on my egg and it was super salty. The broth tastes like the remaining filtered litter. The vegetables taste as if they had been purchased in the expired section of the Joliette maxi. Seriously I don't recommend this restaurant. Take your car and go to tsukuyomi ramen in Montreal or kinton ramen. I will never return to restaurant.
Recommended dishes: Shouyu Ramen
The recipes for noodles and tonkutsu broth have changed and are made super bland. I felt like I was eating soup with water.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 1
Service: 5
The welcome boys were super energetic..a great welcome the cook was super friendly I was spending a Wednesday..thanks
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
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The tonkotsu ramen broth tasted like bath water. It had a nice color so I was excited but it was bland and the little flavor there was wasn't right. The bao buns were dry. It has so much potential. We need japanese food in sherbrooke. The meats were all good the eggs were done very well but the broth was unacceptable for a ramen place. The sauce on the bao was also too sweet and salty like a cheap store bought hoising sauce with salt added. The head chef needs to take a trip to Toronto or even MTL to try some good ramen places and understand the flavors they need to achieve. You guys can take this place to next level without too much effort or investment and truly become a sherbrooke staple.I'll go back to try the chicken broth because I desperately want japanese food but I'm dissapointed and have low hopes.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 1
Service: 4
The food is awesome and the atmosphere is great!I definitely recommend this restaurant!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Because it’s downtown, it’s a bit hard to find parking. Just remember to park downhill if you can because you don’t want to be walking uphill to your car with a tummy full of ramen lolAs for the food, we tried the Takoyaki which was a little small but it seemed to be deep fried instead of the traditional pan-fried so it was super crispy and the flavour was delicious.Next we had the Bao buns. I expected an enclosed steamed bun with a ground pork filling but instead it was a steamed bun sliced open and filled with shredded pork meat, cucumber and sliced green onion, smothered in a sauce. It was okay, the sauce is way too salty and ruined it. I wouldn’t order it again.Finally we tried the Tonkotsu ramen. The broth was not as flavourful as other broths I’ve tried in the past but the bok choy was cooked perfectl’y and the noodles had a great texture. However, the star of this dish was the pork belly. Instead of the traditional slice of rolled up belly, this place serves two rectangular chunks of belly, which is the perfect amount. It is so tender, rich and fatty but not overwhelming because they torch it to give it an amazing char. The bitterness and smokiness of the char is an explosion of complementary flavours.I will definitely be coming back to try the other ramens but be assured that I will be paying extra to add that pork belly to whatever dish I order.Parking: You can park in the large parking garage next to Siboire then walk up the hill to the restaurant if you can’t find street parking. This is what we did. Walking up the hill on an empty stomach and down with one full of ramen is the best option if you can’t get a spot on Wellington.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Had the karaage chicken as appetizer, very crispy exterior and good quality chicken, the sauce complemented the dish well. My friend had the kimchi, very spicy, good balance between the vegetable and sour marinade. The tonkotsu ramen was pretty good, the broth was creamy but lacked a bit of flavor, the noodle were excellent, the pork belly was tender and flavourful and the whole thing was well put together. Great service and calm comfy ambiance. Small but good choice of beer.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
Karaage chicken and totoyaki entrees were good. Recommend trying the chicken!Ordered the tonkotsu ramen and the broth was quite bland. The noodles were oily and the soup had hardly any flavour. We were really hoping for a great ramen experience and this did not unfortunately live up to our expectations.Service was friendly and quick. Nice decor in the space
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 2
Service: 3