Five of the best ramen restaurants in California are located in the Fresno area
Yelp released a list of the Top 100 Ramen Spots in California. Fresno, Visalia and Tulare restaurants made the list. Yelp.com has named five of the best ramen restaurants in California, located in the Fresno area. The company's ranking of the Top 100 Ramen Spots in California was based on total volume and ratings of reviews. Three of these restaurants are located in Fresno, with one each in Visalia and Tulare. The authentic Japanese ramen soup is usually served with house-made noodles and broth that simmered for 12 hours, usually served in a giant bowl with chashu pork, vegetables, and a fish cake. Restaurants in Fresno are increasingly adding tsukemen (pronounced su-kem-en) to their menus, a type of Japanese noodle soup that is served cold and served with a cool, broth-like dipping sauce. Yelp predicts that this will be one of the hottest food trends in 2024 based on rising searches for it on the site.
Published : 2 months ago by Bethany Clough in Lifestyle
Where’s a good place to get a steaming bowl of ramen, the Japanese noodle soup?
Several restaurants in Fresno and Tulare, according to restaurant review website Yelp.com.
The company released its ranking of the Top 100 Ramen Spots in California. Three are in Fresno, with one each in Visalia and Tulare.
And to be clear, we’re not talking about the cheapo packs of Top Ramen that sell for 30 or 40 cents and get us through when the bank account is empty.
This is the authentic Japanese ramen soup.
It’s usually served with house-made noodles, and broth that has simmered for 12 hours, all served in a giant bowl, usually with chashu pork, vegetables and a fish cake with a bright pink swirl on it.
Yelp ranked the restaurants on the list by using total volume and ratings of reviews.
One more thing to note about ramen in Fresno? If it feels like it’s just too hot for soup in the summer, ramen restaurants here are increasingly putting tsukemen on the menu.
It’s similar to ramen, but the noodles and meat are served cold, and customers dip them in cool, broth-like dipping sauce before eating each mouthful, explained chef Richard Kington of Kurotaka Ramen in Fresno.
In fact, Yelp is predicting that tsukemen (pronounced su-kem-en) will be one of the hottest food trends in 2024 based on rising searches for it on the site.
Here’s a look at which local ramen spots are on the Yelp list.
This is a sushi place in downtown Visalia first and foremost, but it has a few kinds of ramen on the menu. Its spicy pork ramen gets lots of rave reviews on the site.
At the corner of Palm Avenue, this little ramen place has a make-your-own option where you can pick all your ingredients.
No. 62 Ramen Hayashi, Fresno. Two locations: In Fresno, it’s at 6443 N. Riverside Drive in the Marketplace at El Paseo. The original is at 1755 Herndon Ave. in Clovis.
Newcomers to ramen may want to try the tonkotsu ramen. That’s traditional ramen with a rich pork broth that simmers for at least 12 hours and is served with chasu (pork) finished off with flame from a handheld torch.
At the southeast corner of First and Bullard Avenue, this restaurant started as a food truck that moved here from San Francisco. The Fresno climate was too hot for a truck, so the founder opened the restaurant.
Kington, who promotes the tsukemen during the summer, makes his broth and his soy sauce from scratch.
This Asian fusion quick-service restaurant features poke and other bowls but has four kinds of popular ramen on the menu. Its spicy ramen (with your choice of meat) is especially popular.