Menya Sakurai (麺屋 さくら井) Tokyo

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• 2020

Dinner at 麺屋 さくら井

on 25 Feb 2024

by Ramen Adventures

麺屋 さくら井

Mitaka, a residential district in Tokyo, is home to a ramen shop called Sakurai, which opened in 2016. The shop offers a variety of dishes including shoyu, shio, and niboshi, with a main blend of soy sauce from Wakayama and Totori Prefecture and four others. The soup is made with chicken, pork, and Hokkaido konbu, and has no chemical seasoning.

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Ramen at Sakurai (麺屋 さくら井)

on 27 Sep 2020

by Abram Plaut

Recommended bowl: Elite level

Open since November 2016, Sakurai in Mitaka serves up high-quality bowls of shoyu, shio and niboshi ramen. The master, who's still in his late twenties, says he's trying to make refined comfort ramen that you can eat every day. The soup is composed of two varieties of chickens from Hakata and Oyama, mixed with pork bones, shiitake mushrooms, Nagasaki niboshi, Hokkaido konbu and several kinds of katsuo. The shoyu tare contains six different soy sauces sourced from around... More

Recommended bowl: Elite level

Open since November 2016, Sakurai in Mitaka serves up high-quality bowls of shoyu, shio and niboshi ramen. The master, who's still in his late twenties, says he's trying to make refined comfort ramen that you can eat every day. The soup is composed of two varieties of chickens from Hakata and Oyama, mixed with pork bones, shiitake mushrooms, Nagasaki niboshi, Hokkaido konbu and several kinds of katsuo. The shoyu tare contains six different soy sauces sourced from around Japan. Kaedama refills are available for the niboshi ramen. No MSG. Elite-level shop. Less