XXX Ramen Berlin — Restaurant in Berlin

Garbage food and garbage staff. Now this experience happened a while ago but walking past the nearly empty restaurant at lunch rush reminded me to share my experience as a review. I went in spontaneously and happened to have a drink with me but i didnt want to wait outside to finish it as it was cold so i went in. I sit down and the server waits 15 minutes before handing me a menu despite there only being maybe 4 other customers in the restaurant. Probably waiting for me to finish my drink so they can charge me 5€ for a 200ml cola. Now 2 friends also join me with drinks in hand. We get our menus, finally order and as i'm waiting to get my food, the guy who usually makes the """ramen""" is staring daggers at me like he's trying not to punch me in the face. Eventually the server comes up to us and asks us to put our drinks away. I want to eat already so i comply. He brings us our food and the chicken dumplings in the soup are mostly raw and disgusting. Are you serious? We had been coming here for months, always spending good money and always leaving good tips and this is how we are treated? I didn't even try to fight the "ramen" guy on it because i dont know if he would have spat in my food had i asked him to remake it. Judging by how empty the store is every single time i walk past, i imagine i'm not the only one that has had problems with how the...

If you want to taste authentic Japanese ramen, this is not the place.

The soup is quite different from what you would get from authentic Japanese ramen. I tried two different kinds of ramen - Shoyu and Tantanmen. I assume the soup is made using quite different set of ingredients from the Japanese version. The soup has a distinctive sweetness which is quite different from what is considered as authentic tone of flavour. My tantanmen tasted like spicy Korean beef radish soup. Shoyu tasted like Tsuyu based Udon. Maybe the owner or cook is Korean?

Overall, I feel they are slightly over priced for its quality compared to other ramen places in Berlin that serves far better ones for less. The Chashu (pork) was sliced as thin as paper though the taste was good. Such thickness is not allowed in Japan.

One very detrimental downside that put me off was hygiene, The water wiped our table with the wiper that was already been used to clean 2 other tables next us. He didn't bother to turn the side of the wipe and evenly spread the food residue from one table to the other. But this could be just that so I'm not reflecting this in my rating.

But if you don't care about authenticity or you never tried proper Japanese ramen, they are pleasantly good soup with a good...

People, be aware! A criminal waiter is working there. He tried to charge me almost double this past Saturday evening, September 13, 2025.

I went for dinner with my wife, we are both born and raised Berliners.

He used a straightforward trick: First, he tried to win my sympathy by being overly friendly, even calling me his best friend. When I made fun of him, look, how soon we became best friends?, he stopped.

The food was not great, but okay, I thought; my wife didn't like hers. It lacked spices.

When I wanted to pay, he tried to charge me twice as much. He simply selected a neighbor's table of four and tried to make me pay for their food.

When I caught him, he was very casual about it, even grinning again at me.

I asked him how often this worked, and he said, often enough and grinned again. Then he gave me the correct bill.

He is short and dark-skinned; his German is not bad.

When you have a waiter treating you especially kindly, that's him. Be careful.

I will never go...