Bone
Daddies Ramen Bar
Date of Visit: 14th
June 2013
Ambience
This small restaurant was filled
with high tables with wooden stools and you would often have to share your
table with strangers, which is typical of ramen bars. We arrived early as I was told it would get
very busy after half 6 and it was true – it was pretty empty when we arrived at
6pm but as we were eating, a queue started to form outside the door. The most eye-catching thing about the
interior was the bottles of beer on show on the shelves and the menu on
blackboards dotted around the walls.
I
was also surprised to see not even one oriental server in the restaurant – of
course this did not matter if the food was good. We found something rather strange on the
tables alongside the condiments… a jar filled with hair bands! I presume it is
for guests with long hair who doesn’t want their hair to feed on the soup
stock?? I have long hair but I did not feel encouraged to use a hairband
provided by the restaurant.
Food
Similarly to Tonkotsu, the menu
is limited but again, it shows that the restaurant specialises in what they are
good at, namely ramen in soup. I had the
original tonkotsu ramen with pork belly, which was ok – the noodle wasn’t as
springy as I would have liked but it wasn’t soggy so it was fine. The belly
pork was more fatty than Tonkotsu (reviewed in May) so I discarded a lot of the
fat along with bamboo shoots which I am not keen on.
Service
The service was quick and the
servers were responsive – no issues at all.
Summary
I was a little disappointed given
that this place was recommended as the better Ramen restaurants that have
recently popped up in Soho. However, the
food was ok and wasn’t a waste of a trip but it wasn’t as satisfying and
filling as I had hoped. The verdict is,
don’t always trust other people’s opinions as you may be surprised. I will need to check out Shoryu for myself to
do a comparison.
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