Pamella Ramen Bar — Restaurant in Vilnius

Albeit it's our first time, we could only try the ramen (meat) and snacks (okonomyaki & pork belly) - we enjoyed all of it tremendously!! 🤩🤤 And are very happy with our experience. Although this place has quite a few negative food reviews (no clue why), our visit was very successful.

The pork belly is the best in Vilnius (savoury and crunchy where needed) and the okonomyaki was also very good and balanced. Granted maybe in Japan (and or Korea) the dishes would have less strong tastes and more subtilty, but for our pallet it was perfect.

Now the ramen were also very good (however this review is written during a ramen shortage in Vilnius, since very few places have anything decent to offer) the broth of both pork and chicken were marvelous. We did not (unlike other reviews) feel the broth to be too strong or savoury - after all umami is king in ramen (at least for us). And the noodles were indeed firm and chewy as they need to be.

Next time we're trying the chicken 🤩 and hope this place will continue to produce great tasting food!!

P.S. this ain't a 4-5 star restaurant, don't expect table cloths or waiters with gloves, it's a ramen shop, so manage your expectations for the atmosphere to an...

I think the photos and the name of this restaurant on Google Maps are both very old. The “kids” (very young staff!) that I found inside seem to be excited by the adventure of running an Asian food place, but they indeed seem to improvise a lot! They were all very kind, but the actual meal was not really good. Tonkatsu soup was veeeeery dense and the ramen were not completely cooked like an Italian very Al dente spaghetti. I appreciate the effort, but that was not a satisfying experience. Enthusiasm is good, but knowledge should be still valuable these days! After receiving an extremely arrogant reply from the restaurant to my review I decided to take out one more star because obviously if they’re not eager and able to take in constructive critic than you don’t deserve much more than 2 stars. I lived in Tokyo for 2 years and ate dozens of Tonkatsu Ramen all around Japan and around the world: if you guys in Lithuania(?!) think that your dish is perfect the way it is and it should be exactly like that, insinuating that I don’t know what I’m talking about, well… 1 star less for the...

Pamella is an unassuming pop up restaurant, which is a bakery by day (Druska Miltai Vanduo) that turns into a stellar ramen restaurant by night. The team here clearly focus on the quality of the food rather than decor (a flaw of many Lithuanian establishments). We tried almost everything on the menu (snacks, fermented veg, pork and chicken ramen) and every dish was a bomb full of Asian umami flavours. The tonkotsu ramen broth was rich (but not the sickly thick you sometimes get elsewhere), the homemade noodles had a good al dente bite, the egg was perfectly cooked with a runny yolk, the meat was good quality. The kids had all the thumbs up when slurping the chicken ramen and the staff were accommodating when we asked for extra plain noodles with broth for the little ones. For an east London family obsessed with Asian food, Pamella ticked all the...