Friends In Ramen

In August, two new shops opened in Umeda. Both in the Osaka Ekimae buildings, and both created by chefs who worked previously at Osaka stapl...

Sakuranomiya is mostly a ramen-free area. It's an area on the Osaka Loop Line, mostly notable for the park nearby. In the spring, the pa...

The Ramen Gekijo in Nipponbashi is supposed to cycle through new ramen shops, but recently it's been revisiting old shops that have bee...

Most ramen shops are small venus that exclusively serve ramen, save for occasionally a small rice bowl or beer. But some shops are restauran...

Dotonbori is known for its myriad takoyaki shops, but often overlooked (at least by sober people) is its array of ramen shops. They are ther...

A few months earlier, I spotted a newcomer to the Amemura ramen scene. Known as more of a drinking area than a ramen area, the ramen shops t...

New shop alert! The longer I've been in this ramen eating business, the more aware I've been of new shops opening up. A shop can bar...