Gyukotsu Ramen Matador (牛骨らぁ麺マタドール) Tokyo

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Dinner at 牛骨らぁ麺マタドール本店

on 19 Jun 2024

by Ramen Adventures

Matador Gyukotsu Ramen
牛骨らぁ麺 マタドール 本店
Kitasenju Station
@matador.honten

Matador, famous for their beef ramen, updated the recipe recently. Popular shops often do this to keep things fresh. The renewal keeps the beef but adds some tender pork and balances things out with chicken oil.

They do frequent limited bowls. It’s getting hot in Japan, so I need to eat more chilled ramen.

8 / 10

Ramen at Matador (マタドール)

on 25 Sep 2019

by Abram Plaut

Recommended bowl: Best beef ramen!

Master Iwatate-san opened Matador in 2011, just as a mini boom in gyukotsu (beef bone) ramen was sweeping Tokyo. Matador immediately placed itself at the forefront of the nascent scene by winning a bevy of awards from ramen critics and Tokyo food magazines.

The shoyu ramen is recommended for first-timers here, but everything on the menu – shoyu ramen, shio ramen, tsukemen, Taiwan ramen, abura soba, and more – is delicious. All of the dishes use a beef bone... More

Recommended bowl: Best beef ramen!

Master Iwatate-san opened Matador in 2011, just as a mini boom in gyukotsu (beef bone) ramen was sweeping Tokyo. Matador immediately placed itself at the forefront of the nascent scene by winning a bevy of awards from ramen critics and Tokyo food magazines.

The shoyu ramen is recommended for first-timers here, but everything on the menu – shoyu ramen, shio ramen, tsukemen, Taiwan ramen, abura soba, and more – is delicious. All of the dishes use a beef bone soup stock, with noodles provided by the purveyor Mikawaya Seimen. Most bowls include the topping option for slices of house-made roast beef chashu.

On Mondays, the menu changes and only mazesoba (ramen without soup) is offered. Rather than the normal roast beef chashu, fried gyu-katsu is added. In 2013, Iwatate-san opened another beef bone ramen shop specializing in miso ramen, just a five minute walk away. Both shops are legit. Less