Kitakata Tomen edition - Doctor Vinay

It was our first time coming to this ramen shop and we were excited to try it. Unfortunately we had a very poor experience. It’s way overpriced, and service felt very disorganized and impersonal. We placed our order, the server confirmed our order and everything was correct, but when the food landed they mixed up our soups and I ended up with the Gluten free noodles and my friend with gluten sensitivity got the regular noodles. As this was our first time here, it took us a minute to realize, we confirmed that we ended up with the wrong plates, my friend explained he had a gluten sensitivity and one of the servers asked if he’d like a new one, and the answer was yes. 15 minutes go by and there’s no sign of a new dish coming, so we ask again and they hadn’t even started it. If you order the gluten free noodles expect your soup to be more like a noodle dish rather than a soup. They put way too many noodles in leaving very little room for broth. Also, we couldn’t get a straight answer on whether the GF noodles have egg in them. Overall our experience was very underwhelming and we decided to try many other places before coming back, unfortunate as we had high hopes.

Place is very delicious, you need to give everything a try. The fried chicken is good, but personally I enjoyed the pork sandwich more. It was rich with flavor and the pork is basically melting in your mouth and the bread, even though it might have been colder then I would like it, it’s still great. But check this area if you love ramen like me and I guarantee it won’t let you down.

We came to this place only because another restaurant had about 1.5 hour wait, but man, I'm happy we did. the broth and flavor of the umakara ramen i got was amazing! Spicy, rich and flavorful. The large portion was indeed large and I was satisfied. My wife got a miso ramen and she loved it just as much. Both ramen really hit the spot. We will definitely be back, definitely our go to ramen spot now!

Yummy ramen place. Since the place we initially wanted to go to had 1+ hour wait we came across this ramen place. So glad we ate here - staff was very accommodating with our two little ones. They have super cute kid bowls and plates. My daughter’s favorite color is blue and they even switched her bowl and plate to the blue one. My daughter has an egg allergy - the noodles do not have egg. Miso ramen was yummy but it does have a little kick to it especially near the end. Definitely recommend adding sides for more veggies. Boiled cabbage was good addition, same as tofu. Our girls loved the fried chicken (no eggs in batter). Would definitely come back!

I’ve tried many ramen in/near Irvine and this one is one of my favorite. I seldom give all 5 stars to a restaurant. I always have kitakata ramen with dried seaweed and a seasoned egg. The ban nai bowl has 1:1 meat rice ratio. The new product, cold ramen, released on 7/1/2023 tastes great. The soup tasted like soy sauce with ice cubes rather than the original broth, leading to a slightly salty but free of oil taste. The shashu has a wasabi and a piece of lemon on the side. In addition, the fried chicken is really good!