Ramen-Ya

My favorite ramen shop opens a new store! This new place have larger spaces, better decoration, no waiting lines but still charge the same price!

Haters be hating! Ramen-​Ya is great and has really good classic ramen. There is also a lunch deal with ramen + rice bowl. I haven’t tried the appetizers, but the ramen is A+ (especially the Shio Black Tonkotsu Ramen!).
Pro Tip: The W 3^rd St has more seating than the W 4^th St location. I love how cozy the W 4^th St location is but sometimes the wait time is insane, so I’d recommend going to the W 3^rd St location (which is also large and can seat larger parties of 4+).

3.5 star for the noodles, 2 star for the veggie dumplings, so that rounds up to 3 star.
I haven’t been to the actual restaurant, I ordered my food a few times on Caviar. I like the broth a lot — it’s heavy but very fulfilling and delicious, toppings are also nice, noodles are on par with most ramen places you can find in the city, not better or worse. I am pretty sure the dumplings are pan fried from frozen dumplings, maybe I’m a little picky here, but I do want to get fresh made dumplings if I’m paying $ 9 per serving instead of frying some frozen dumplings at home… Overall not bad if you just go for noodles!

loved this place great prices the staff was very friendly. If you want extra noodles it’s only 2 bucks

I’d give the food 4 stars and the service 2 stars, so I will go with a 3 overall. We were seated and the waiter took forever to come over to us, we placed our order and then sat for about 20 minutes without being given the waters we asked for. After patiently waiting for a long time, I had to flag down a different server and ask them for water in order to get it. Our waiter consistently walked around the restaurant without managing to look at a single one of his tables. I could have been jumping up and down right in front of him but still would have been ignored somehow. He never checked on us.
My husband had the spicy miso ramen with chicken. His was very good and packed with flavor. I had the black garlic pork broth ramen, requested spicy, which was rather disappointing. I didn’t care for the thinner noodles and they were a bit more al dente than I would have liked. The broth lacked spice and was a bit bland.

This was a go to place when I would get my nails done right next door. I liked their vegetable ramen, the only thing my bf would eat when I take him to a ramen place. It’s not bad, at all. But I stopped coming here because of customer service. There’s a lot of other ramen places, trust me I’ve been to dozens of them and you can actually keep your customers by keeping them happy.
We always order for extras, extra veggies, extra egg, extra this, extra that and we don’t mind paying. Trust that we know you pay rent, in the West Village. We get it, totally. But if I paid for $ 2 for extra corn, I expect more than 4 kernels than the regular I get. If I paid for extra noodles, it should look like I have more noodles than the girl’s ramen sitting next to me who didn’t pay extra. When I asked why it looks like I didn’t get any extra, waitress said the extras were in my bowl it’s just that it’s a small bowl. I mean, really?
I wish I took a picture of my bowl of ramen and our receipt from you guys that day. It was not okay at all. We paid $ 23 for a bowl of ramen with extras but didn’t really get any extras. Shame on you!!!

I had the tonkotsu miso ramen + mentai don lunch set, and it was easily the worst ramen — or come to think of it Japanese food in general — I’ve ever had in NYC. Ramen was way undercooked, the pork was mostly just fat, and the broth was oily. The Mentai don was even worse, loaded with too much mayo, and the mentaiko itself of horrible quality. I could only stomach a few bites of it. Service is nothing to write home about either, but the bad food is the real horror show here.

It is coming !!! Cold noodle (hiyashi chuuka)
I really love it
Noodle is very fresh and soup is very delicious
Taste like a soy & vinegar make me so happy!
You must go there right Now!!!

Love that this ramen ya is a bit bigger than the original west village location and the food is as good as always. Nice staff and the food comes out pretty quick. Get the original shio, you won’t regret it.

I am torn between a 4 or 5 star review. Since we returned to Ramen-​Ya multiple times when we are in the neighborhood, just that reason alone pushed this review to 5-​stars. I ordered the Musashi (Tonkotsu Pork Soup) Shio Black ($ 12) which comes with straight thin noodles in their original «Tonkotsu», berkshire pork, broth topped with chashu pork, kikurage mushrooms, nitamago (seasoned egg), scallions and black garlic oil. The broth is soooooo tasty. The pork broth was white, smooth, and soooo yummy. Next time I am going to order it with the thicker wavy ramen noodle.
My boyfriend made a comment to me after I finished my ramen soup…“Oh I never seen you finish the entire ramen including the broth.” Which is true. I usually just eat the ramen and leave the broth for him to finish but at Ramen-​Ya, I didn’t even leave him a drop! I was sad when he made that comment. Maybe I should have saved him some more… next time! The Chasu pork is moist. The soup is hot at Ramen-​Ya. You would think that should be a given but I have had problems with other ramen joints where they serve their ramen almost room temperature, yuck.
Ramen-​Ya is my go-​to ramen place in the West Village/​Greenwich Village area. You can order a mini rice bowl (mini donburi) with your ramen for another $ 4 to $ 5, awesome. You can only order the mini donburi with a order of ramen. It’s a set. Not that I can finish both a ramen and mini donburi but in case you’re hungry!
I’ve ordered the Yaki-​Ramen which is $ 12 and is only served at their West 3^rd Street location. Yaki Ramen is pan fried wavy thick egg noodles with your choice of pork or chicken meat, cabbage, onion, bean sprouts, nitamago egg, red ginger pickles, bonito flakes, dusted with green dried seaweed and dressed with a sweetened, thickened sauce. Next time I would ask them to make it less greasy. I enjoyed it at first but the grease got to me. It was hard to finish because of the grease. Granted, it’s stir fried.
My boyfriend had the Abura soba for $ 12. It’s ramen with no soup, not sure why they call it soba because there is no soba in this dish. It’s served with wavy thick ramen noodles, your choice of pork or chicken chashu, kikurage mushrooms, nitamago egg, corn, bean sprouts, scallions and a soy based sauce. I thought it was tasty.
We have tried both their mini curry donburi (rice bowl) and their mini chashu donburi with braised chicken $ 4 each. There is no meat in the curry bowl, but it’s okay nonetheless. It’s just rice, ginger and curry. While the braised chicken chashu donburi is YUMMO. I enjoyed it. I want to try the pork chashu donburi next time. The meat at Ramen-​Ya is pretty yummy.
I would not hesitate to come back.

The ramen is so good that I came here two weekends in a row. The tonkotsu spicy miso ramen is my favorite, and the mini rice bowls that you can order along with the ramen are very appetizing as well.
Maybe I came mostly at odd hours (weekday at 3pm and weekend nights after 9pm), I never had to wait in line, which is very rare for good ramen places in New York. All these lines outside of every single ramen place is really, really annoying!
I’ve never been to the original W4 location, but I’ve heard this one is bigger and not as crowded. Definitely come to this location if you want to try out ramen-​ya.

The ramen is flavourful and the noodles cooked well. Staff is attentive and atmosphere is quiet and nice
My favorite was the
PORK BELLLYYYY! With spicy mustard and scallions, it came out grilled to perfection and not too salty. The fat was insanely good.

I love this place. I like their ramen so much, so much more than another place that’s really popular in East Village (not gonna drop any names or anything but take a wild guess). Their lunch sets are actually a great value and even if you aren’t getting a lunch set, their food isn’t bank breaking expensive.
I came with 3 other people and through their lunch special, we were able to try a good variety of items off the menu and we were all very happy with the food in terms of quality, flavor, and value. Their soup is great, I got a miso base but I def liked the shio base better. We came on a Saturday afternoon and we didn’t have to wait for a table. Service was near perfect and food came quickly. We were starving when we came in and we left very full.
A downside is that they only accept cash, but they have a nice and clean bathroom, so all is forgiven.

Located right next to the West 4^th Street handball courts, Ramen-​Ya is a quaint restaurant serving up some pretty darn good ramen. My first time here was about a year or two ago and it wasn’t too memorable, but I had the opportunity to come here more recently and my inner foodie celebrated this time around.
What differs Ramen-​Ya from other ramen restaurants is the donburi set menus, which offers mini bowls of curry over rice, beef over rice, braised pork or chicken over rice, and spicy cod roe with rice as «appetizers» before the ramen comes out. Let me tell you… I loved my beef over rice. The beef was perfectly marinated and tender. I honestly wish I had more beef because I had a lot of rice leftover. I also had a bit of my friend’s braised pork, and OH. MY. GOD. Enough said. Even if you’re not a pork lover, I’d still recommend that.
Another thing that sets Ramen-​Ya apart is their options for broth. Not many places I know of offer both tonkotsu (pork) and paitan (chicken) broth. I opted for the spicy miso tonkotsu. Savory broth, check. Delicious chasu pork, check. Perfectly cooked ramen noodles, check. I couldn’t finish the broth though because in the end it got too savory for me. I even attempted to dip some of the leftover rice from my beef bowl into the broth and after a couple of bites I couldn’t do any more. Honestly, this would’ve been a 5-​star review if I hadn’t felt like I had to chug a gallon of water even a few hours after I finished my meal.
In any case, I will definitely be back to try the other donburi sets and maybe give the paitan broth a chance. Perhaps it won’t be as salty the next time.

Superbowl Sunday, I thought this place would be really crowded. We got there and it was pretty quiet and they even had a TV with the game on. The service was OK, kind of slow. Food was different and tasty, not bad. It’s a clean atmosphere to enjoy a good time.

The food was okay at best in terms of freshness, portion sizes and flavor. I definitely had much better ramen. My order was inaccurate and since I don’t like pork, I’m most likely not coming back.

It was around 8pm and me, my aunt, uncle, brother, and cousins decided to go to West Village to have some Ramen and we were thinking of trying Ramen Mew since my cousin had some vouchers. We walked there and they said that they were done serving for the day. I then went on to search another Ramen place nearby and found Ramen Ya.
This spot is a very small shop and they had to move some seats together to seat 6 people. Anyways I ordered the Shio spicy ramen. The others got, yaki ramen, abura soba (no soup ramen), and miso ramen. My ramen came and I saw a deep color with the spicy sauce that they added to the salt ramen. My ramen came with two thick slices of cha-​shu, kikurage mushrooms, scalllions, and half of a boiled egg. The cha-​shu was cooked well. The ramen portion was a little on the light side and the bowl of ramen was lacking in vegetables. It really could have came with a little more vegetables. I know there are options to add vegetables for extra but if I’m paying $ 13 for a bowl of ramen, I expect the ramen to have everything it needs. It was lacking in that sense.
My brother ordered the yaki ramen and it came with a lot of cabbage. The ramen was sweet and a little creamy (from mayonnaise I believe). He got the pork yaki ramen and there was plenty of it! The whole dish was pretty big and my brother is a big eater and usually finishes everything. He had a little leftover.
Everyone else seemed to enjoy their ramen. I personally wish mine was a little bigger and had more vegetables. I think I’ll come try the abura soba style ramen next time. My aunt got that and seemed to enjoy it a lot.

I was in a cranky mood and pretty hungry, so usually everything tastes amazing when I feel like that. My vegetarian Yasai ramen was just meh at best. And the egg I got for an extra $ 1 tasted stale.
And the mentai don… which was the roe and mayonnaise rice bowl. What was I thinking? It tasted so weird, so sweet. Not what I was expecting at all. I stopped eating it after a bit.
I probably won’t come back, even for the lunch special.

3.5 stars
Pretty solid ramen spot, nothing extraordinary but hits the spot on a cold winter day. I thought the serving size was a bit on the smaller side for its price. I probably wouldn’t go out of my way to get it but would stop by again for a quick lunch if I’m in the area.

By far one of the best ramen places in the city. Loses a star because both times I went there, they were sold out of their gyoza. Guess I need to keep trying to come back to try their dumplings. Also the service is a tad slow and the ofod takes a while to come out so expect a wait, but it’s worth the while.
But delicious ramen, perfectly cooked noodles, and not too overwhelming on the flavor of the soup (this is where a lot of ramen places fault, their soup base). I am not having to chug water after every bite because of the amount of MSG in the soup. The Shio red is a must try, in my opinion I don’t think it’s actually that spicy so don’t let the red colored soup intimidate you.

I’ve been eating here for well over 6 months. On this day I ordered the same meal and provided my NYU iD like any other time. They proceeded to tell me that I could not use my discount because I ordered from the lunch menu, I was taken aback because this isn’t my first time here. I proceeded to tell them I always come here and the Unilocal advertisement says the discount is not applicable to «happy hour items» which I did not order.
The customer service here unfortunately is pretty bad. I’d suggest ordering takeout instead since they can’t seem to streamline their promotions.
Total buzzkill.

It’s more or less a 3.5. I got the shio red ramen and it was pretty decent and atmosphere isn’t too bad. The service was pretty mediocre and felt kind of rushed halfway through my meal. We also got a fried chicken type appetizer and we must’ve ordered wrong bc it basically tasted like a bland non-​crispy fried chicken. Definitely a pass on that one.
If you’re in the area it’s pretty worth it, but it’s not somewhere I would go out of my way to go eat.

I and my husband thought of getting a quick dinner before going out for a party on New Year’s Eve at a nice ramen place. After reading the reviews and stars on Unilocal,we went there and were quite disappointed with the food. Servers were very cold and rude as they didn’t want to work in holiday season and they are forced to work. I have had much better ramen and katsu curry in Japan and I didn’t want to compare it with Japanese food as it was not even close. I had amazing ramen at ipuddo restaurant couple of times and was quite impressed with servers and food there. When I saw the bill they added 18% gratuity on top. I wasn’t happy with the service and food, so I wanted to tip accordingly. I asked about the gratuity and waitress said very rude and sarcastically, do you wanna tip me more than 18%?
Over all experience was not great, so I wouldn’t recommend it to any of my friends. There are definitely better places for ramen in New York.

the W3rd location is awesome and a lot more room than the W4th location. there was barely a wait compared with the W4th location (i accidentally went to that first).
Ramen is delicious — ordered the shio black with spicy sauce. I wasn’t crazy about the meat (but that holds true for most ramen places) but the soup & accompaniments were really good.

Weekday
4:30PM
Take out
Okay…I know… I know… I like their Ramen. When they opened on 4^th St. I was there two to three times a week for lunch, till they get super busy. This new location offers more choices like cutlet, stir fried noodles (Yakisoba), and so on. Their Ramen is an excellent choice in the village so I expected high for my non-​ramen orders but I was very wrong.
One star is to Yakisoba ($ 12/​no spicy): they call it «YAKI RAMEN», from No Soup Ramen section. It’s a simple stir fried noodle with some veggies, cabbage & bean sprouts, and a choice of meat, pork, chicken or veggie, meaning tofu. Simply seasoned with sweet and savory Yakisoba sauce/https://www.google.com/search?q=yakisoba+sauce&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjDter0­yPzJAhVBKyYKHRRwApgQ_AUICCgC&biw=1152&bih=644&dpr=1.25. is a Japanese take on Lo Mein and very easy to make at home and it is a street fair favorite in Japan. But at this place, it was far from good. It’s not Japanese flavors but Chinese restaurant stir fried noodles make better than this. What was good in the dish was that tasty Sun Noodle. The pork that I opted for was a great choice though. They were cut small but definitely stood out because the pork was their Char Siu in ramen. I should have stuck with what’s known for, Ramen.
Mugi-​Fuji Pork Cutlet ($ 12)
I like Japanese pork cutlet to be a thick cut pork, crunchy outside, and juicy inside. Even after waiter assured me of thickness, my pork was thin, dry, and badly executed, oily. I thought asking for $ 12 was too much for the level of cooking and from my visual assessment but all changed after the fist bite. Slightly dark pork was actually very tasty but I wish the cabbage was thinly sliced and traditional like Katsu Ham or Ootoya, much easier to eat. This cutlet saved my one star to three star.

Maybe it’s my predisposition to dislike cash only, but I was not impressed here. Usually ramen places are overflowing with food and I was able to effortlessly finish my bowl. The people I dined with loved their pork dishes, and I was underwhelmed by my chicken bowl… maybe it’s just not their forte. But I think the non-​pork eaters should get the same optimal taste experience.

It’s so hard to find that perfect combination of noodles and broth… I know that they’re known for their shio ramen, but I feel that a good ramen spot should have good broth regardless. A friend and I stopped in here for a ramen fix because we heard good things about this place and this location is more spacious than its first shop location on W. 4^th. The service here is pretty friendly and fast; our ramen came out quickly after ordering.
My friend and I both ended up ordering the miso tonkotsu ramen. The noodles were great and everything that came with it was delicious, the pork was very good. Unfortunately, the broth is where it fell short as it was lacking in flavor. I wouldn’t mind coming back to try their shio black ramen though, it looks pretty good!

I LOVE THEIR signature ramen; the first one. The pork is SO GOOD and perfect texture. Broth is also delicious! It was a short wait to get the food.
One of FAV. Ramen in nyc
They’re really good with service too, we finish eating but they allowed us to stay and chat.
Clean and great food! Would come again!

I was starving and a little bit drunk.
With that in mind, this place seriously hit the spot.
I loved it. The two soups we got were both equally delicious and the pork appetizer came out just as I thought I might tear someone’s head off due to the drunchies.
For a late night ramen place, and in general, this place was very clean and chic and everything from the atmosphere to the dishes themselves were very pretty.
The noodles were served at the perfect texture, not at all soggy (pet peeve #1 with noodle places), so overall I am so happy we stumbled upon ramen-​ya, and if I happen to be in new york drunk, in the same place again? I would go in again.
Other than that though, nothing special enough to make me seek it out (too much competition for the good noodle bowl stuffs in new york)

Great little unassuming shop. Ramen is king here.
I got the spicy tonkotsu ramen with charshu. It was super flavorful, but not really all that spicy. That’s more than ok with me, but I enjoying a masochistic spice session once in a while.
The charshu was incredible. You can really taste the marinade and braising liquid in the flesh, all while remaining very light especially for being pork belly.
My friend got the soup-​less ramen. Think a burrito bowl but with ramen staples. That was super delicious too, and brings braised pork shoulder meat, which was just as good as the chasu.
This place is great, spacious, and not packed with ramen heads.

Ramen Ya is legit! No frills, no long lines. I ordered the spicy miso pork with thick wavy noodles. Delicious broth full of flavour and texture. Very good indeed. Brunch cash!

Second location now open, yes please! These two spots are so close to one another, you’ll want to check with your buddy which one you two are meeting at. Fortunately, they’re only a 5 minute walk from one another, so it wasn’t a problem to walk to the w3rd location after communication signals got crossed. West 4^th is a much smaller space & fits about 20 people and is always full. However the w3rd spot is very large & has legitimate air conditioning. W3rd is less popular and easier to sit down quicker.
After reading many reviews, it seemed that the Shio Black ramen was the must have item, so I went for it and loved it! We were also able to get a lunch special and get big appetizers only for an extra $ 3. It was way too much food, but I liked the variety!
I may have only just heard of Ramen Ya, but it’s been a game changing learning. I’ll definitely be coming back for more ramen!

Cash only, decent ramen place in the Village. The signs all say Beyond Thai and your bill would also say Beyond Thai. Other than the laminated card on the door that says Ramen-​ya, you would never know it didn’t serve Thai food at all.
The Okra Pork Gyoza sounded really interesting and the slimy soft okra gave it a nice texture. It was nicely seared and had good flavor.
They have a pork tonkotsu broth, a chicken paitan broth and vegetarian broth ramen. The meat based broths come in Shio Black or Red, both with black garlic oil and the latter with chili oil. The pork based broth is definitely better than the chicken. It had a nicer aroma and nice mouthfeel. The pork charsu is also really tender and fatty. The chicken paitan was just ok. The chicken charshu are just plain grilled sliced chicken breast and didn’t add much to the dish.
Overall decent for the area. Staff is friendly but tends to rush you and squeeze you into seating next to other patrons even if the place is practically empty.

Cash only.
Been to my fair share of ramen places around the city but this is definitely one of my favorites. I think this is more of a dinner date experience than what you’d expect at Totto or Ippudo where they hand you your check before you’re halfway done with the noodles. Ambiance is good and the bathroom is decently clean.
I always get the miso ramen everywhere I go. What I especially like about this one is that the broth is not overwhelmingly salty and I didn’t feel the need to chug a couple glasses of water after I got home.
I was here for the $ 1 sapporo deal for the womens fifa game. WOW can’t believe there weren’t more people here! Amazing deal. please have it again soon!

I’m no Ramen expert, but in my opinion, they serve up a delicious bowl of ramen. Their Signature is the shio black– known for the black garlic oil. The broth is super rich with chashu pork, mushrooms, seasoned egg, scallions, and a generous serving of noodles. This dish is beyond filling– the garlic was a little too bold for me, but that’s all subjective, right? My man ordered the miso ramen, with spicy option. Personally, I don’t think miso broth should have a spicy option, but he rest enjoyed it. The spice level was mild– so if you’re for high heat, you won’t find it there. All in all– the ramen hit the spot on an especially snowy and cold NYC day. We arrived around 1pm and it was steady– shortly after we were seated, people
Started piling in. We lucked out and didn’t have a to wait, but just keep in mind that it is small with seating for maybe up to 25 people and it’s cash only!