Ramen - Philadelphia

Recognized as the Best Ramen in Philly 2015! Ramen Bar is a hip full bar/restaurant serving authentic Japanese Cuisine and Sushi!

My favourite ramen in Philly, and the most adventurous I have found to date in the city...

The restaurant has a very cute, trendy vibe with an intimate dining room. Btw, parking can be a challenge but if you luck up get a parking spot directly outside the restaurant on Lancaster Avenue, it's free. The ramen...WOW! I had every intention of taking some home but nope...ate every last bit there! As a pescaterian, majority of the ramen dishes had pork broth BUT there was about 3-4 chicken/vegetable/shrimp ramen bowls. Since I had the Vegetable Miso Ramen on my 1st visit (highly recommend! , I tried the Green Curry Ramen and this dish too measured up! There's a full bar and I definitely want to return to try their sushi which I hear is great too. Ishmael was a great server! The only reason I'm giving Ramen Bar a 4 instead of 5 stars is because I asked for a little hot sauce to add to my ramen and the young lady gave me Bakudan which was delish but an additional $3 and didn't even advise beforehand (total pet peeve of mine ! I never heard of an additional charge for hot sauce and even so, generally a condiment charge is only $1-2; $3 is pretty steep. But go figures because if you add shrimp to the Vegetable Miso Ramen it's an additional $7. I guess they don't care about making things reasonable even though the restaurant is located on Drexel's campus. Also it would be nice if Ramen Bar's Happy Hour pricing returned like it had pre-pandemic (the HH menu is still on the restaurant's IG page .

The food and drinks were awesome! I would come back there. The service was awesome. We orderd Japanese fried rice, spicy chicken miso Ramen, and miso Ramen. The ambience of the restaurant was great. I also like there was a full bar in the restaurant with top shelf liquor.

Not many restaurants are open past 8pm in this area, so I was glad to see this come up in my search! Tried the chicken katsu udon noodle bowl and shu Mai appetizer. While I liked both of the dishes, I felt like it was pricy for simple dishes.