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This ramen shop achieves one of the highest honors in the culinary world
Ramen is a huge food trend that is sweeping the United States right now. Nearly everything from a doughnut to a burger it transformed into a ramen hybrid, and people still can’t get enough.
That’s just as well because a brand-new ramen shop that is Michelin-starred actually opened up here in the U.S., and needless to say, fans of the noodles are sure to want to get a taste.
Tokyo’s Tsuta, founded by chef Yuki Onishi in 2012, is the only ramenten to have ever received a Michelin star worldwide, and since 2015, he has expanded his restaurant to other places like Singapore and Hong Kong. Now, he has come stateside, debuting his first U.S. shop in San Francisco’s Metreon shopping mall.
Onishi comes from a family of ramen chefs but has earned his own reputation for his umami-rich shoyu soba: a soy sauce-based broth (a blend of house made and non-house made soy sauces, some of which are aged for two years) that builds depth of flavor through chicken, clams, and other seafood. He is also known for his choice of noodle: soba. However, unlike the soba buckwheat noodle we know here, the soba noodle in Japan is actually a thinner noodle that Onishi makes in-house.
Onishi is also famous for his seasonal limited-time ramens such as lobster ramen and cold tomato cream tsukemen.
His San Francisco location boasts a space of 2,400 square feet and a menu of his best dishes.
By: Maytinee Kramer
