namamen — Restaurant in Basel

Convenient location for where we were staying for the ESC 2025. If you want a filling meal quickly, this is fine. However, Japanese foodies will be extremely disappointed. The soups are not true ramen, but what a western person thinks ramen is; not authentic, and severely lacking in depth. The soup came with an extremely hard boiled egg which should tell you enough. The pork was OK, but I wonder what they did with the broth from cooking the pork as they clearly don't use it in any of the soup bases. As per usual for Basel, the food isn't cheap, so don't think you can come here and be charged for cheap ramen as the price is expensive for what they serve. The staff were very welcoming and service...

So I made a mistake of selecting summer menu - Sushi Bowl and now I'm suffering with food poisoning, first time from any food in Switzerland... The food was suspicious from the beginning and I should have just left it, but I couldn't believe that someone will try to pull using old food here... The sushi bowl had nothing to do with sushi, to be honest. It was just a standard rice and fried! (first red flag). Tuna was half-fried and extremely salty (which I reported to the server) (another red flag to cover being unfresh). Although I did use to like their udon, I will never come there again not to risk eating another old and poisonous stuff... Not...

Quickly the pros: Noodles and stock are alright and they serve Japanese beer. On the con side however you'll find that the ramen here has very little to do with authentic Japanese ramen. The meat is neither tender nor seasoned in any fashion, the ramen egg is a plain, unseasoned, hard boiled egg. The serving size is very small, especially for the price. The whole place feels like someone saw ramen on TV and decided: "Hey, I can do that.", with only theoretical knowledge of Japanese cuisine and lifestyle. Not offensively bad, but not recommended, especially since you can find a much better ramen just 900...