Ramen Hood — Restaurant in Los Angeles

Let me start off by saying that the ramen is amazing!! However, the customer service experience was absolutely hell! There are no women working there( too much aggressive and testosterone in one establishment) and I got MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAJOR INCEL VIBES! Everyone was beyond rude and dismissive and for that reason I will NEVER GO BACK TO THAT PLACE! The overweight guy in the back making the ramen was sweating like a pig and I’m sure it dripped in the ramen! I asked one question to another guy and he was the rudest person I encountered while I was there! There is limited seating which is not a major problem because I didn’t want to be seated in such a low vibrational environment anyway so I gladly took my ramen elsewhere. Bottom line is DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME OR ENERGY GOING THERE especially if you are a beautiful woman because the guys are already miserable working around a bunch of other guys ( I’m sure they feel worthless already) so when they see a beautiful and pleasant woman with a guy they are reminded of their deficiencies! They are jealous of any guy that has access to a woman because they know that they are reduced to dust working around other useless sweaty incels. My bf was clearly seen as a THREAT so of course they immediately wanted to assert some type of “power” over him which in reality, makes them look even weaker! I pity males with this mentality and there are so many walking around in our everyday lives. WOMEN BEWARE! These males are beyond dangerous and will do anything to “ show” women that they hate them for not allowing them access. I sincerely hope this place makes a shift and gets rid of those guys and replace them with pleasant and nurturing women because they are driving so many...

Ramen Hood - Downtown, Los Angeles Spicy Ramen w/ Sunflower Seed Broth It’s a hip and cool thing to be vegan, especially this week and especially in Los Angeles where the number of plant based food options are second to none. It’s very easy to eat plant based over here - I’ve been eating impossible burgers and loving every minute of it, so now was the time to try one of LA’s most famous vegan ramen offerings to give my morale a boost and justify me smashing that like button on all them amazon fire posts. Ramen Hood is situated in Grand Central Market - an undercover food hall full of many delicious surprises. Unsurprisingly there was a line for Ramen Hood but it moved quite quickly - being a spicy boy myself I of course went with the spicy miso ramen. This was an unbelievably good ramen putting the meat vs plant thing aside for a second the broth shined brightly on its own accord - a deep and bold umami taste which had been extracted from simmering mushrooms and kelp for a hefty amount of time. While Ramen Hood could have put in the soup any of a large variety of faux meats they instead decided to showcase each vegetable in its true form and this is something I appreciated immensely. The roasted garlic was pungent and delicious - lifting the aromatics of the dish up into new heights. The noodles had great bite to them which is usually an issue in vegan based dishes. Id highly recommend this ramen for any ramen fans, not just vegan ramen fans. It’s a good dish with a great taste to it.

🥢🥢🥢🥢🥢 Broth Flavour: 🍜🍜🍜🍜.5/5 Soup ingredients: 🍜🍜🍜🍜/5 Service: 🍜🍜🍜🍜.5/5 Overall: 🍜🍜🍜🍜.5/5 🥢🥢🥢🥢🥢

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We ordered for dine in and were shown seats where we could sit. After we paid, the seats were no longer available. So we found seats at a table nearby and waited. And waited. And waited.

After about a half-hour, I asked how much longer it would take and I was told that since we didn’t sit at the bar table seats where we were told to sit, our food had not been made and we could only get it in take-away containers. After this confusion we considered asking for a refund and just going to one of the better eateries nearby but we decided to tough it out.

As staff prepared our order, seats opened up at the bar and we relocated there. 10-minutes later the food began showing up in take-away containers. I guess the seating changes were just too complicated for staff to handle. We then noticed that our appetizer was easily half the size of the same dish that had been served in dine-in dishes to diners seated next to us.

Finally, 15-minutes later, tiny take-away bowls of lukewarm ramen arrived.

If you’re both a vegan and a newbie to ramen, you might enjoy Ramen Hood’s take on ramen. I found the soup base to be too different from the real thing to even recall the flavors of Japan’s celebrated ramen houses, too salty to enjoy any subtlety of flavor, and like the reduced serving size of our appetizer, too small to feel like we got our...