U:Don Fresh Japanese Noodle Station – Capitol Hill

My review is going to be pretty narrow in focus (because I essentially get the same order every time), but I feel obligated to write it because I've gone here dozens of times.

As a vegetarian, the Kitsune Soup Udon is what I get every single time, and as someone who hasn't eaten a lot of Udon, I was surprised that such a simple dish was so tasty. Even with the bare minimum of soup, udon noodles and piece of aburaage (sweet tofu), I found it to be a dish I could eat over and over. Then I realized I was being too simplistic, and adding some toppings (especially chili oil), enhanced the dish even more.

I gave 3 stars for the service and atmosphere because it is essentially a buffet style where they hand the food to you across the counter before the register, and the atmosphere is pretty standard for a sit down restaurant. However neither of these things makes the experience worse, hence why I gave it 5 stars overall. The prices aren't cheap, but they aren't overly expensive either, and I feel like I'm getting my money's worth for the most part.

I don't want to say too much because my experience with the menu is very limited, but for my purposes this has been an outstanding Udon restaurant that I keep coming back to again and again. Definitely recommend if you're in the mood for simple, good Udon without a crazy price tag attached.

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 5

Service: 3

They were sadly out of everything.

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 1

Service: 1

The gyoza at U:DON were juicy and crisped to perfection.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

I ordered a curry ka tzu bowl but got a seasame sauce instead, it’s a to go order, and when I called back, they already closed , so my kids have to eat ka tzu with no sauce !

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 4

Service: 5

Fun, but the quality is typically buffet quality.

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 2

Service: 2

Food was overly sweet, artificial, and sides were cold and stale despite being under hot lamp. Counter service only, fast casual and demanded a 20% tip default. Absolutely not worth it, so many better options in Seattle.

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 2

Service: 1

Unfortunately, everything here is too sweet to be authentic.

Atmosphere: 2

Food: 2

Service: 3

Some of the best broth I've ever tasted.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Food was not that great (please don’t pour hot broth into hot rice, it makes the rice goopy)
Portions are laughable. I ordered the beef curry rice bowl, but it was a bowl of rice, and like 2 insanely thin and tiny pieces of beef.
Safe to say that i’ll not be coming back here unless they fix their portions

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 1

Service: 4

Owner was very polite and courteous. Highly recommend!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

This place only offers takeout from 2:00 to 4:30 PM on weekdays, but they don’t mention that on Google Maps—only a small note on the door. It was really frustrating to drive all the way here just to find out I couldn’t dine in. Also, parking is street-only and paid.

Honestly I really wanted to love this place. I was expecting to get hot noodles. But I got cold noodles. I wish the server would have helped me out. The taste was underwhelming and I won’t be coming back. Going to go with a $20 pack of 30 indomies off of Amazon.com and adding some eggs and seaweed instead😋😋😋

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 3

Service: 3

Great food, great service. Walk-through line to order Udon, with self service seating. We took it to go. Loved the noodles and the goodies that came with.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 5

It was really only good for value, now the prices went up by a lot, it's not worth anymore. You could literally get noodles with more topping variety for the same price literally anywhere else. With the new price hike, I can't recommend this place anymore.

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 3

This was one of my favorite cap hill restaurants for years - you could get yummy noodles for around $9.

Now the same dish is $15. There is no way a very simple bowl of noodles, sauce, and an egg is worth that much. Hell, you can go a couple blocks away and get noodles with more toppings and flavor for around the same price.

For what you get, the cost doesn’t make sense… Especially also considering this is a counter serve restaurant with cafeteria style seating. Huge bummer the prices skyrocketed as I probably won’t return again