Kyushu Ramen Bar - Grandview

This Ramen was great! Everything was fresh! And the staff were exceptional! If you like ramen and haven’t tried this place, I’d strongly urge you to go. I will be back to try the many other options they have and also I recommend getting the fried chicken appetizer while here! 🤘🏻

The pork gyozas were so good. I also got the pork chashu bun and the pork was really charred well and the greens were fresh. The ramen pretty good but felt like it needed a little bit more boost of flavor.
The service was great and the atmosphere is welcoming.

We had the veggie gyoza, honey walnut shrimp, and black garlic ramen (we made ours spicy). Everything was a 10/10, service is fast, and the food is fresh! Best ramen in Columbus by far.

Review Date: May 29th, 2023

Kyushu is Japanese for ‘a long weekend with friends’.

Nah, Kyushu is actually the southern most island of the nation of Japan.

It came time to wind down this awesome trip we were on and we needed a place to eat. Seeing as it was Memorial Day and our original destination was closed (North Market), our pilot called the other car and they settled on a ramen eatery. After some back and forth, they found Kyushu was open for business and was ready to fill our stomach’s needs.

We walked in to a quiet restaurant and quickly spread out at the bar. The waitress brought us all menus and drinks while we poured over the menu. Seeing as it was the last hurrah for the trip, we went all out on ordering appetizers and main courses. I got the Spicy Miso Soup with some Harumaki spring rolls. Emily got the Spicy Tonkotsu Soup and some fried Gyoza. I won’t list what everyone else got cause that would be quite the paragraph and also I don’t remember what everyone got. Ha.

It was fun to watch the main chef cook our meals while also possibly training someone? They spoke Japanese so it was a bit hard to follow what was going on. But again, it was fun to watch them cook and prepare our food. For how large our group was (we picked up Mike along the way), the wait time was comparable to a normal restaurant.

The food went down just as fast as the cooks made it. We were all starving. I’m not intimately familiar with Ramen bars due to there not being many around Central Illinois. But I am glad my friends knew they were plentiful around Columbus and suggested we drop in for some. The spicy miso soup was super good but somehow the harumaki spring rolls were my favorite thing ever.

We didn’t stick around too long after we finished our meal as they were picking up for a late lunch rush… plus we had a 6 hour drive ahead of us. I was thinking about those rolls all the way home and wished we had a place locally that served something similar.

New favorite ramen place! Love the feel of the restaurant and the staff is incredibly friendly and helpful. It’s definitely competing with other ramen places in Columbus and this is my favorite option. I almost got a picture of the food before we ate but I saw the bowl and had to go for it.
5 stars for great food, great service and great feel.