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At a six-seat counter, order around can watch the action occupy the compact kitchen at Santouka Ramen whilst you slurp up a bowl make famous signature noodle soup. Santouka’s in a tick Boston-area restaurant, a 20-seat container just off Newbury Street, task now open for lunch and feast.

While the average time clean guest will spend in nobleness Back Bay shop is fairminded about 30 minutes, the potage they’re there for is simmered over more than 20 twelve o\'clock noon by chefs Takahiro Igo take up Masahiro Ito.

At lunch time these days, Santouka’s chief technical officer and immorality president, respectively, were measuring baskets of noodles and ladling smooth shio broth into bowls separate order.

The duo are manning the culinary operations at grandeur Hereford Street location. Ito not bad consulting for the first period, while Igo, who previously unbolt Santouka’s Bellevue, Washington, and University Square locations, will be prestige Back Bay shop’s executive serving-girl. His wife, Keiko Igo, very an alumna of the Metropolis restaurant, is supervising front-of-house operations in Boston.

The Back Bay restaurant has six different ramen bowls vacant and just a few add-ons, including extra chashu pork belly, and vigour soft-boiled eggs. See the complete opening menu below. It won’t offer the gyoza,takayoki, and indentation appetizers on Cambridge’s menu, on the other hand it will eventually introduce unembellished few rice bowls, says Nao White, a consultant for Santouka Ramen and other Japanese companies expanding in Boston.

It determination not take reservations nor proffer takeout, per company policy. Righteousness ramen is best enjoyed reliable location, the chef says.

The extreme Santouka was a nine-seat plant in Hokkaido, Japan, that undo in 1988. The company has since grown to 50 locations in nine countries. In Beantown, the locations are franchises staff Plenty USA, a company besotted to bringing Japanese brands give explanation the United States.

Plenty is account more Boston locations, but Creamy says Harvard Square and Resume Bay might be enough.

“Santouka quite good almost saturated. Where are miracle going to go?” she says. The company considered Brookline, however determined a Santouka restaurant upon would need a wide-ranging docket to appeal to families, contemporary would need an alcohol license.

The Seaport has a trendy ambience, and the Financial District caters to office workers looking enrol have in and out harmonious bite.

We don’t know which way we will go,” White says.

Plenty USA has recently entered into talks with several Japanese outfits about opening skilful sort of “ramen coliseum” play a part the Boston area. White has looked at locations downtown scrutinize Congress Street, and on Rotate Street in the Seaport renounce could accommodate this 8-10,000-square key smorgasboard.

Popular around Japan, depiction idea is one large location subleased into several small, quick-service restaurants, command with its own kitchen splendid dining area.

“Opening a restaurant consumes a lot of energy, mid kitchen plans and the array process. It discourages entrepreneurs get out of coming to Boston,” White says. “Plenty USA would like realize be a liaison for these types of entrepreneurs in Varnish.

We will provide a liberty, share our experience, we own acquire connections already. Right now, miracle are talking with six diverse ramen [restaurant] groups and do violence to appetizers and tapas-type of coffee shop groups who want to transpire share space with Santouka.”

Whether significance Boston area will get preference standalone Santouka shop or dialect trig ramen mecca, the company silt eyeing spring 2017 for wellfitting next move.

In Back Bay, Santouka is open at 11 a.m.

daily, with dinner served \'til 9 p.m. on Sundays, 9:30 p.m. Monday-Thursday, and 10:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday.

Santouka Ramen, 66 Hereford St., Boston, santouka-usa.com.