Superior Ramen House — Restaurant in Superior

Cool to have a noodle place back in Superior! Has lots of potential here!

My wife and I attended the soft opening. We expected issues, and there were some, to be sure, but nothing that can't be overcome. I'm excited to have this place mature into a noodle house I can rely on that's close to where I live!

This is a cute little restaurant inside. They did well with the decor and layout. I'd encourage the owners to put some blinds on the north-facing windows of the building, as the sun was coming directly into our eyes at 7pm.

The service was very cheerful...and apologetic!...as they were working out the first-time issues. We had to ask twice for our drinks, but when we got them, they were good: the mango tea was good and 'dangerous' to have something this accessible in Superior, and the house sake was dang good for $8 for a large pour (better than the house sake at Wasabi!)

The food was good. The rolls were tasty but nothing extravagant. The sweet sauce tasted like your standard sweet sauce. The edamame was perfectly cooked and salted to MY liking (which is...not a LOT of salt!), but it was served cold, as if it had been sitting around.

My wife's shrimp tempura bowl was decent. Everything tasted good, but she absolutely loved the boiled egg that was in the bowl. She said it was the best she's had in a while!

I had the house tan tan. It was also good. The broth was delicious and the noodles well-cooked. It says 'spicy' on the menu, but for me, it would be a 'Midwest two' out of five (with five being melt-your-face-spicy); it was still delicious. The pork belly was cooked to perfection. If I could offer an enhancement to the this dish, it would be to scale back the ground pork and put some more sprouts (or something else) to give it more crunch.

I will be back after a month or two to see if the kitchen speed and the service improves. It's great to have a place like this (back) in Superior. I'm optimistic about this...

Such a cute place, the servers were doing their best for their first day open. As for the food I’m sadly disappointed. We ordered the chicken yakitori, chicken udon and spicy miso ramen. Chicken yakitori was small for the price but the sauce was very tasty. Not sure I understand the bell peppers on it but it wasn’t offensive. 6/10 Chicken udon was sadly lacking any flavor. I feel like midwestern standards is doing mid-westerns a disservice. It needed way more flavor but overall wasn’t off putting. 4/10 Spicy miso ramen was where the food went south. Eggs were over cooked but still tasty, pork wasn’t super flavorful but edible, the broth though was off. I’m not sure what happened. There was a flavor of heavy garlic powder/chemicals. I tasted each part separately to ensure it wasn’t something just messing with the taste and smell however it indeed just the broth. Even the spicy oil tasted as it should. There wasn’t any salt to be had anywhere. Maybe the miso they used went out. If I had to guess they are not roasting bones and making real ramen broth, but some other comments from the owners say they are, so who knows. Unfortunately it was so off putting I could not eat it. 0/10 I hope they work out the kinks but being a ramen place with low quality ramen won’t help their business stay for long. So sad that I still have to drive into hermantown for half decent ramen. Here’s hoping we get some good food soon in...

The quality of the broth and the noodles were good but not great. As a vegetarian it would be nice to have clear labeling about if the veggie options are truly vegetarian or have meat broth or anything. The vegetable gyoza was good but the veggie entres felt tacked on and neglected. The veggie ramen was a bit strange to me. I have been to a decent amount of ramen restaurants and I'm not sure I've ever seen cabbage in it, especially big squares, but there were no mushrooms / bamboo shoots / nori / green onion ect. Mostly the ramen was just the cabbage and some carrots which were both kind of tough and not pleasant to eat. I would have liked more vegetables in general and maybe tofu or something. Kind of a shame because like I said the broth and noodles were pretty good. It seemed like the omnivores with me who got meat dishes thought they were decent to good.

Something I would point out for any vegetarians is that someone I was with had a chicken dish and I found a peice of her chicken in my ramen. As it ended up being just the one piece and I'm not someone who is bothered by the cross contamination I did not complain but I know a lot of other people with dietary preferences would be bothered. Not sure I would trust them to handle allergens as well where the cross-contamination can be...