Amsterdam-based vegan ramen outfit Ramen Impossible makes its UK debut today, 16 June, in a summer-long pop-up at Mercato Metropolitano in London’s Elephant & Castle. Ramen is famously made with a meat-based broth, but Ramen Impossible’s founder, Japanese chef Atsushi Ishida, has developed an alternative using miso, cashew nuts and nutritional yeast. The brand only […]
Luke Findlay is launching a second branch of his ‘traditionally inauthentic’ ramen concept Supa Ya today, in Peckham’s Rye Lane. The former Berber & Q head chef developed the idea as a supper club in his Hackney flat, mixing Japanese ramen with classic British and European flavours, before road-testing it as a pop-up and opening […]
Britain’s first ‘zero staff’ restaurant is scheduled to open in Oxford later this year. EZ 24 Ramen will be open 24 hours a day, serving bowls of ramen prepared to order in three minutes, and there will be no staff on the premises beyond an operative who pops in every day to top up the […]
Tonkotsu is to open its tenth restaurant – just six years after launching its first site in Soho. The new branch, in Ealing, is to be located in the new Dickens Yard development and will be a 50-cover restaurant spanning two floors. From November 30, diners will find Tonkotsu’s signature homemade noodle ramens, gyozas and […]
Chef and food-writer Gizzi Erskine has teamed up with ramen chain Tonkotsu to produce a Korean-inspired bowl to be sold for six weeks from next Friday, March 17. Her “Twisted Tonkotsu” includes Korean doenjang miso, gochuang chilli and kimchee, along with the house broth, pork belly and whole egg. Erskine’s fried chicken wings will be […]
⦿ In The Observer, Jay Rayner reviewed Aquavit, the St James’s offshoot of an “award-garlanded” Swedish restaurant in New York – “And, oh boy, check out that swagger.” It turned out to be “a proper Nordic noir thriller but for all the wrong reasons… It’s altogether more Trump Tower than Wallander. Everything is shiny and golden […]
Yet another Japanese-influenced restaurant is due to open in London’s West End this month. Gyoza Bar will launch next door to sushi, sashimi and robata grill spot Murakami in Covent Garden on 15 February. As one might expect from the restaurant’s name the menu features small dishes including gyoza dumplings, ramen and bao buns. Only local […]
Everybody loves noodles. They’re slurp-tastic and slippery, healthy and filling, spicy and warming. Sure every once in a while you hit yourself in the eye with some hot broth, or look suspiciously like someone learning to eat for the first time as you ram that ramen into your mouth, but it’s all worth it. March […]
