Top 10 Restaurants Where You Find the Most Authentic and Delicious Ramen in Sydney

No two bowls of ramen soup are similar. Though, each restaurant peaches to deliver the taste right from the streets of Japan, still, they are proud in their own unique way of cooking with combining the noodles and the fillings, namely pork.

While one place delivers the light and clear as french consomme version of ramen soup, the other offers the thick, creamy and sticky version of it. The possibilities and outcomes are genuinely infinite.

Just to be clear, this article is not about exploring the wide variety of ramen but about the top places that offer the best ramen soup in Sydney.

The list of top ramen places in Sydney is as follows:

1. Manpuku, Kingsford & Chatswood

Manpuku- Millions of Happiness. That’s what the food here delivers.

Set out for the public in 2013, the first in Kingsford, and second in Chatwood (2015). Manpuku offers one of the best ramen made with the enriched ingredients to deliver the authentic Japanese taste with homemade noodles.

Working Hours:
Kingsford brunch opens: 11 am-9:30 pm 7 days (cash only, no booking available)
Chatswood brunch opens: 11:30 am-9 pm (card accepted, no bookings available)
Website: https://www.ramenmanpuku.com/
Contact: Kingsford- +61 (02) 9662 1236 || Chatswood- +61 (02) 9411 1021

2. Ryo’s Noodles, Crows Nest

Open for takeaways only, but seven days functional for lunch and dinner, Ryo’s Noodles offers traditional Japanese noodles in the heart of Bondi. The place offers you a glimpse of the Japanese food culture by serving native brand drinks, native language speaking staff, and an immensely cultural atmosphere, thus making you feel like you are physically in Japan.

Working Hours:
Lunch Hours: Between 11:30 am to 2:30 pm
Dinner Hours: From 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm
Contact: +61 (02) 9955 0225
Website: https://ryosramen.com.au/

3. Gogyo, Surry Hills

Founded in 2003 by the original ramen king of IPPUDO fame Shigemi Kawahara, GOGYO is a casual-chic Japanese ramen bar and dining venue offering its customers, to begin with, drinks, indulge into the taste of a few ’tsumami’ and end with the delicious ramen.

Establishing a strong presence in Kyoto, Tokyo, Nagoya, Fukuoka and Hong Kong, here in Surry Hills, the dine-in place marks the sixth location for the brand.

Website: http://ippudo.com.au/gogyo/
Contact: +61 (02) 9212 0003

4. Gumshara Ramen, Haymarket

Serving the delicious and spicy Raman to Sydney’s metropolitan areas either via takeaway, home delivery or drive through, Gumshara delivers the freshly cooked soup from the marrow and soft bones, discarding MSG and thickener to enhance the richness of the soup. The place is boiling over 200kg of fresh pork bones for about 14 hours, all days a week.

Website: https://www.gumshara.com/
Contact : +61 (04) 1025 3180

5. Rising Sun Workshop, Newtown

Adapting the changes quickly amid the pandemic, Rising Sun Workshop (RSW) is offering ramen takeaway services across the region. Along with the appetising ramen, the place is also selling RSW Merchandise, cafe or workshop vouchers, and basically everything that could help their local marketer who has supported RSW over the years. The place has worked on details to deliver a delightful experience to their customers, thus has prepared a delivery friendly menu and a bunch of essential grocery items to be delivered to your place, surely with following social distancing guidelines.

Website: https://www.risingsunworkshop.com/
Contact: +61 (02) 9550 3891 or +61 (02) 9517 3609

6. RaRa Redfern

A local craft ramen bar offering traditional bowls that you are more likely to slurp on the streets of Japan. RaRa’s speciality Tonkotsu, chicken and delicious vegan broths are the core specialities of their chef just like their homemade noodles. Currently operational for takeaways, the cash-free restaurant does not charge anything additional on your bill.

Working Hours:
Friday: 12–2:30pm, 5:30–10pm
Saturday: 12–10pm
Sunday: 12–8:30pm
Monday: 12–2:30pm, 5:30–9:30pm
Tuesday: 12–2:30pm, 5:30–9:30pm
Wednesday: 12–2:30pm, 5:30–9:30pm
Thursday: 12–2:30pm, 5:30–10pm
Website: https://www.rararamen.com.au/

7. Chaco Bar, Darlinghurst

Temporarily closed due to the pandemic, but the outstanding services and appetising ramen has made us add this restaurant into our list of top 10s. On the normal days, the operational hours of the place are as follows:

Working Hours:
Tue – Sun between 5:30 pm – 10:00 pm || Closed on Monday

Bar Service between:
Tue – Sun between 5:30 pm – 10:00 pm
Website: http://chacorestaurants.com.au/
Contact: +61 (02) 8593 4567

8. Butter Sydney, Surry Hills, Parramatta

Available for both home delivery and takeaways, the restaurant has a lot to offer. Right from the delicious ramen, to champagne to rare sneakers, the place stores all the funky and cool stuff for its users.

Website: https://buttersydney.com.au/
Contact: +61 (02) 8283 9146

9. Hakata-Maru Ramen Chatswood, Chatswood

This Japanese Ramen restaurant is specialised in Hakata-style tonkatsu ramen. Located in Chatswood, the place holds a very dear place in the heart of its customers. The website of this restaurant is currently unavailable, but for an update, you can always scroll through its Facebook page.

Contact: +61 (02) 8884 8861

10. Ramen Goku, Glebe

Enable for takeaway service only, Ramen Goku delivers the most authentic Japanese Ramen noodles in Glebe. Operational for six days a week, except Monday, the lunch and dinner hours here are as follows:

Lunch Hours: From 11:30 am to 3:00 pm
Dinner Hours: From 5:30 pm to 8:00 pm
Website: https://ramengoku.com.au/
Contact: +61 (02) 9277 4649

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