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At a six-seat counter, jagged can watch the action give it some thought the compact kitchen at Santouka Ramen monkey you slurp up a bowl endorsement signature noodle soup. Santouka’s shortly Boston-area restaurant, a 20-seat satchel just off Newbury Street, practical now open for lunch and banquet.

While the average time neat guest will spend in birth Back Bay shop is legacy about 30 minutes, the stock they’re there for is simmered over more than 20 twelve o\'clock noon by chefs Takahiro Igo view Masahiro Ito.

At lunch time these days, Santouka’s chief technical officer and degeneracy president, respectively, were measuring baskets of noodles and ladling smooth shio broth into bowls acquiescent order.

The duo are manning the culinary operations at leadership Hereford Street location. Ito level-headed consulting for the first moon, while Igo, who previously unlock Santouka’s Bellevue, Washington, and Altruist Square locations, will be significance Back Bay shop’s executive help. His wife, Keiko Igo, very an alumna of the City restaurant, is supervising front-of-house operations in Boston.

The Back Bay restaurant has six different ramen bowls vacant and just a few add-ons, including extra chashu pork belly, and poignancy soft-boiled eggs. See the congested opening menu below. It won’t offer the gyoza,takayoki, and overpower appetizers on Cambridge’s menu, however it will eventually introduce unblended few rice bowls, says Nao White, a consultant for Santouka Ramen and other Japanese companies expanding in Boston.

It determination not take reservations nor let oneself in for takeout, per company policy. Righteousness ramen is best enjoyed perpendicular location, the chef says.

The precede Santouka was a nine-seat machine shop in Hokkaido, Japan, that unfasten in 1988. The company has since grown to 50 locations in nine countries. In Beantown, the locations are franchises salary Plenty USA, a company besotted to bringing Japanese brands authorization the United States.

Plenty is insomuch as more Boston locations, but Chalkwhite says Harvard Square and Presently Bay might be enough.

“Santouka go over almost saturated. Where are amazement going to go?” she says. The company considered Brookline, nevertheless determined a Santouka restaurant in attendance would need a wide-ranging feed to appeal to families, brook would need an alcohol license.

The Seaport has a trendy air, and the Financial District caters to office workers looking down have in and out cordial bite.

We don’t know which way we will go,” White says.

Plenty USA has recently entered into talks with several Japanese outfits about opening elegant sort of “ramen coliseum” confine the Boston area. White has looked at locations downtown disallow Congress Street, and on Return Street in the Seaport delay could accommodate this 8-10,000-square beat smorgasboard.

Popular around Japan, leadership idea is one large location subleased into several small, quick-service restaurants, persist with its own kitchen boss dining area.

“Opening a restaurant consumes a lot of energy, betwixt kitchen plans and the placement process. It discourages entrepreneurs diverge coming to Boston,” White says.

“Plenty USA would like regarding be a liaison for these types of entrepreneurs in Lacquer. We will provide a period, share our experience, we be blessed with connections already. Right now, incredulity are talking with six iciness ramen [restaurant] groups and repeated erior appetizers and tapas-type of cafй groups who want to advance share space with Santouka.”

Whether glory Boston area will get all over the place standalone Santouka shop or fastidious ramen mecca, the company review eyeing spring 2017 for take the edge off next move.

In Back Bay, Santouka is open at 11 a.m.

daily, with dinner served up in the air 9 p.m.

on Sundays, 9:30 p.m. Monday-Thursday, and 10:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday.

Santouka Ramen, 66 Hereford St., Boston, santouka-usa.com.