Yoshiharu Ramen — Restaurant in Laguna Niguel

We tried this place on Friday evening for the very first time and we were pleasantly surprised! Upon entering we were greeted and seated immediately. Our order was taken quickly (note: they are working on getting their liquor license so no sake right now) It's an open kitchen and a counter on the side. It's rather small but nicely appointed with 2 big screen TV's showing the behind-the-scenes in the kitchen. We started with the dumplings and sweet and spicy chicken and both came out piping hot; big pieces of chicken absolutely delicious with the right amount of spice and sweetness. The dumplings were plump, we opted to get them fried, so they were very tasty with just the right amount of filling. I wasn't crazy about the sauce but we dipped it in the spicy chicken sauce and it was so good! My husband is from Hawaii and I've lived there for 50 years and there's a large population of Asians so we're use to different regions of Japanese food so these noodles were absolutely perfectly made and cooked! They were paired with the Tonkotsu broth which was tasty not overly salty, just right, 2 seasoned hard boiled egg halves, large pieces of charsu, oh so tasty! When we left, the chef said goodbye to us, everyone was very friendly! Our waitress was attentive and quick! I think they work in a team. I recommend them and...

Came here on a Sunday evening - I am vegetarian and my partner is not. The vegetarian ramen is fine, it didn't have tomatoes or corn (which are listed on the menu and mentioned by other reviewers). I thought the broth was decent and flavorful, and the noodles were okay. My partner ordered the tonkatsu spicy black which he felt was lacking flavor till he really mixed it all up.

I did have to add on tofu, and I find it strange that the vegetarian option has no protein included at all by default.

I didn't experience any issues with speed of service - the restaurant wasn't too busy so it seemed manageable. There's not really much ambiance, they were playing music from Japanese video games (not super loud so I was able to tune it out but not exactly dinner music).

Overall our meal was okay - not the best, not the worst. But something about the ramen took me to tummyache town and I don't usually have issues with food. I was burping for hours after dinner - not sure what was in my meal that didn't sit well with my stomach!

Overall, maybe better for non-vegetarians, but definitely not the best ramen around. The staff is nice and this totally isn't their fault - it's just not the...

Came here midday on a Thursday. They mentioned that they only had one cook, and so anything other than ramen would take a long time. I ordered the black garlic spicy ramen and friend got veggie ramen. The spicy black garlic ramen was so oily…it felt like I was straight up eating a bowl of oil. I asked the server if I could have more non oily broth to dilute the ramen and he brought me more of the same oil broth…my friend didn’t like her ramen either. I barely ate anything and when I let him know at the end of the meal that the ramen was very oily he said it’s their best one and people give it high reviews, I mentioned I wouldn’t be giving high reviews, and he said go ahead, one negative review won’t matter. He dismissed me and then said he’d let the chef know for future. Definitely won’t be coming back and would not recommend. It was...