He is a guy that knows LA too well.
I wish we could get some fromage blanc ramen like this:
http://www.ramenadventures.com/2016/06/due-italian-in-yotsuya.html
You are right, there are so many kinds of ramen…but somehow we barely get anything. Mostly tonkotsu, and some shio…and then vegan truffle…
I need to figure out why we have such a paucity of ramen variety in LA; just look at what we could have!
Tomato ramen! Everywhere, not just some obscure place in the Valley.
P.S., Ramen for the ladies. Love it. 
I won’t speak to their service on their first “soft open” day because it was horrendous. But their prices are terrible and that is a fact. $12 as a base price for a normal sized bowl of ramen is absurd. I added pork to my bowl for an extra $4 (and now my meal after tip is approaching $20) and received two sad pieces in my lukewarm ramen. Also, keep in mind that the combination roll + tiny bowl isn’t worth $18, which is the base price and anything on top of that is additional! My friend’s combination meal with two rolls + the side bowl of ramen was $32 and she left hungry. It’s just a gimmick restaurant. Don’t waste your money. Go to Kotoya or Tsujita instead.
Photo below shows the Diva bowl and the (tiny) bowl you get with the combination option.
i’ve always seen hand rolls made with a whole sheet of nori. your picture looks like one hand roll torn in half.
I was kidding! I took bites so you could see the inside, and also because I was hungry.
Wow this was the worst ramen I’ve had in LA. The broth was uninspired, insipid and so watery it ended the drought. I’ve had top ramen that had more flavor. I was wondering if i got the vegan broth by mistake, but thinking about it, the vegan broth probably would have had more flavor than the chicken water I got. The egg was overcooked and the “foie amp” that’s supposed to “melt into the broth and make everything that much better” was a waste. #notmyramen
The rolls were okay, nori was soggy. I’d rather go to kazunori.
The gelato was the best thing i had.
scallop screamer, laxy lady
crab karma, salmon pesto
RnR signature broth, egg, foie
caramel hazelnut gelato
Wow, thanks for the warning @PorkyBelly. Just looking at the pic, I can see that the broth was totally watery. It looks gross. 
Oh, and the chicken was drier than bill murray’s humor.
The broth was good when I was there, probably because of the truffle addition, though it wasn’t very “truffly”. But it was light and flavorful. I agree re the chicken. HORRIBLY dry. And the soggy nori.
The rolls I had were honestly terrible. The smoked fish in the loxy lady tasted like Ralph’s smoked fish. The other two I had (salmon, crab) just had way too much mayo, Very disappointing as I live in the area and wanted this to be good.
On the bright side: a sign went up in downtown CC for an outlet of Tentenyu from Sawtelle.
This place sounds like a complete epic fail
#deathwatch
800 degrees is the best of that style of pizza place - Pieology, Pizza Press, Blaze, etc…
Umami Burger is good but not someplace I frequent often.
The last 2 sound like real clunkers - the chocolate chicken place and this new spot.
It’s actually not. They do need to do something about that horrible chicken obviously, like maybe invest in s sous vide instead of boiling it to death.
But like I’ve said, I liked the broth (shoyu chicken) and the noodles. I’m not giving up on them yet, and and am willing to give them time to settle in, especially because Ramen Yamadaya has been a total disaster the last few times I was there.
ouch…
Don’t forget Tacoteca…
What about Tacoteca should I not be forgetting @matthewkang ?
My recollection is quite tasty, perhaps not exceptional, but darned good. I suspect diners of an Ezparzean nature would complain about the prices for tacos. But shit, it’s Wilshire - not Whittier - Blvd.
How many times did you go? I went four times and it was really inconsistent. But more than anything, how shortly it lived, how little fanfare it had, and how unceremoniously it changed ownership hands from Fleischman.
Went twice - is it already gone? If so, too bad; LA could use more good taco places with a full bar.
Didn’t appreciate much difference between my visits and was not at all aware of the ownership pedigree (for reason I vaguely thought Jet Tila was involved).
Still technically open and hanging on by a thread.
Had no idea he was involved with that?! I went a couple times early on and really liked it, especially the tortillas but haven’t been recently.
