Higuma Ramen & Izakaya

The food isn’t bad. The wait staff was awesome. My rating is mostly on the quality to price ratio. If you consider yourself a foodie you will think this is a mid meal. Especially is you’ve had ramen at higher quality places and paid the same ticket. They have a great happy hour and any bowl will certainly fill you up.

This place has a great setting with a very nice chill atmosphere. The interior has lots of dark wood & makes for a calming effect (for me at least). On Saturday @ 8pm, there were available tables and it never felt packed or uncomfortable. We hit the tapas hard. Mini salads, panzu butter scallops, chicken karaage, spicy edamame, cucumber salad, takoyaki, dynamite shrimp, and the kamonegi duck. I enjoyed the salad, my friend was not a fan of the dressing...I could have used more, and there were a few wilted greens in mine that I removed. Insert sad face here. The scallops were really tasty, would order those again for sure... nice to see them come out on the shell instead of fully manicured. Good flavor & very tender. Next, a personal favorite of mine, the Karaage chicken. I get this every time I see it available. Here, the batter was thin & really crisp (on point), and the chicken was so moist. As a dry version with the sauce on the side, near perfection. The dipping sauce was small, bu

A good solid bowl of ramen. Broth was good and the spice level was perfect. Toppings were good (wood ear mushrooms, bamboo shoots, jammy egg, chashu). The pork was very tender. With 2 minor changes I would give this a 5 *: it came with thin noodles (thick would have really elevated this) and my to-go order did not cone with a plastic ramen spoon (it just came with a flimsy disposable plastic spoon) which made it very difficult to eat. Overall it was a good choice and I would order again.