Having visited the Ippudo in Sydney and Tokyo and absolutely loving it, I had high hopes for the one in New York. We were staying in the Westside so we went to the local one rather than on the Eastside.
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Saying my wife and I were disappointed with the experience is an understatement. For starters I ordered an Umeshu which is a Plum wine and ended up getting the wrong drink, Ok I can understand that miscommunications can happen but when I called it out they brought back the correct drink but the glass was all sticky on the outside...
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Things just kept going downhill from there, I ordered the Akamaru Modern and Jasmine got the Akamaru New York (vegetarian) when the actual food arrived as it was what I would describe as below average ramen, 2 tiny and thin pieces of pork, 2 tiny pieces of cabbage, old mushrooms and overly salty broth, they didn't get anything right.
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I wasn't even a fan of the spoons as they were much larger than normal which made them very difficult to use.
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The highlight of the trip was the nifty folded napkin, great job I guess 👏
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We met some locals and before mentioning how our experience went they said that the Westside one is overrated and the Eastside one is much better. One would hope 🙄
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