JINYA Ramen Bar - Charleston

Heather was amazing. Some of the coolest drinks I’ve seen from a bar downtown and very fast service. Everything was IMMACULATE! 6/5 stars for JINYA!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Great food. Cool spot. Amazing wait staff. Had a really great time even though we showed up late. For the price in Charleston im not sure you can beat it even with drinks . Thank you.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

The food and restaurant isn’t an issue… it’s the amount of health violations I watched sitting at the ramen bar. Cook never changed his gloves but was cooking and cleaning at the same time. I watched him take a rag to clean the counter in the kitchen then use the same hand to grab food to place in the bowl. Took the gloves off stood around looking.. removed his hat… scratched his sweaty head and never washed his hands when putting on new gloves.

Service: 2

Recommended dishes: Chicken Ramen

Sean provided great service and the food was amazing! I haven’t had a ramen as good as this one in decades.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Sean IS THE BEST!! He didn’t even need a notepad he memorized everything, gave us recommendations based of our previous preferences and all this was lovely id definitely recommend

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Wonderful experience! Heather and Eddie provided excellent service! Food was phenomenal!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Always have a good experience in these establishments. Originally visited the location in Athens and was hooked on the food! Atmosphere is nice, service has been great all around. Really appreciate the commitment to creating beautiful plates along with great tasting cuisine.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 4

Service: 4

First time visitors to Jinya Ramen Bar Charleston. Greeted by the kitchen staff when we walked in. We tried the tempura Brussels sprouts, chicken chashu bowl and Birria Ramen. Everything was so good! Nothing but empty bowls to show. Sean was on pointe with recommendations of favorites. We will be back!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Food was great and service as GREATER‼️ Timing to wait for food was not long at all and this was my first time here. Recommend 10/10, the noodles was GREAT‼️‼️‼️🥰

Best ramen spot in Charleston and great service. Ace Skylar and Bree are are so delightful

I had high expectations for this place based on the reviews on google and was so excited to try. Ramen was good and the buffalo cauliflower was good as well! But other aspects of our food / apps were pretty disappointing. Between our x2 salad, x2 chicken appetizers that we clearly did not touch at all (bao bun was pretty just alright as well but we picked at it), you would’ve thought that when our server came over to us and said “oh were you not happy with this? / I see you didn’t touch this at all” that they then would’ve gone to management to at least take one or maybe two of these small items off of the bill- salad, fried chicken. We would never ask for that directly, but we did tell her that we really just did not like it, after she asked us about it and we had left all 4 things basically untouched. As a server myself, I know how easy it is just to make things right. Instead, two second later we receive the bill with all 4 items we clearly didn’t touch on there and we felt pretty disappointed about that, because we literally are the kind of people who always finish our food at restaurants.

Our server also disappeared for like 45 minutes after we were done eating. The ramen was fine, but as for other aspects of the rest of the meal, it really made us unhappy with our experience here and regret coming here- especially for the cost, you expect a higher level of service and some degree of ‘making things right’-ness lol.

Edit: I’m disappointed Jinya hasn’t taken the time to respond to this review yet- despite responding to others. Charleston is going to be a hard market for them with this level/quality of service and experience.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 2

Service: 3

The bartender Ace was great! He greeted us immediately and took time to explain the menu and share some of his faves. The food was delicious and the portions are huge. Highly recommend

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Sean is the Bomb!! Yes we are going to home and watch a comedy!! Vegan options abound!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Sean was a top notch server,

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

First time here! Sean was an amazing server with great suggestions - we especially loved the Tonkotsu Original 2010 😋

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5