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This used to be one of my favorite restaurants around my apartment but i'm sad to say that's no longer the case. I went last night at around 8 and waited 45 minutes for a table (which is usually the case, and i've been ok with that for the delicious food). However after our 45 minute wait, they presented us with the smallest menu i have ever seen! there were only 11 choices on the menu ( 4 "small dishes", 4 noodle dishes and 3 "etc"). I tried to order a couple of the "small dishes", only to be informed that they were out of 2 of them. Leaving 9 limited choices for dinner. We choose 4 dishes in total, which are all very overpriced for their very small portion size. And then we waited. and waited. It took at least 35minutes for the noodles & pork buns to show up, which both were tasty but hardly worth the wait. Then we had the stripped sea bass and sea scallops. The sea scallops were good (not great) and the sea bass was nothing to remember. Both were very overpriced at 18 and 25 per dish which would barely classify as half an entree at other restaurants.

My friend and I have eaten at Momofuku Noodle Bar several times. Our first experience was good. We liked the kimchee and especially the seasonal pickles. The pork buns melted in our mouths. The Ramen was tasty, but very salty, and the noodles were undercooked. It’s been that way every time I’ve eaten there. We had tasty ales (Japanese, I think). The sake we tried was pricey, but underwhelming. On one visit, we had a crispy pigtail appetizer (a surprise offering on that day) that was to die for! On another, my friend ordered a whole fish entrée that was tasty, but way too expensive for such a tiny portion. The décor is spare (which is fine) but the table spacing is poor. You will find yourself uncomfortably pushed up against strangers who don’t want to be pushed up against you either. I say go to Momofuku Noodle Bar for the pork buns they are truly tasty. But, all in all, it’s a pricey meal and not special enough to warrant all the hype.

I watched the owner on Charlie Rose the other day and thought I'd try out noodle bar..... mistake! In the interview, he mentioned he wanted a place where you didn't feel ripped off. I felt well and truly ripped off. Heres the reasons: - Raman is so very salty! Is this on purpose? Do the cooks even taste the food in there? Are they trying to extra extend the life of their meat with so much salt?? - Pork buns are good, but way overpriced -waiters kept bumping into me all the time.. no big deal I couldn't get over the food quality, especially at this price!

Noodles very average , kim chee stew very very salty Pork buns good but expensive For this quality, hype and cost this place can not be recommended

I've lived in Japan for 8 years so I know good ramen when I eat it. This is by far the most disappointing ramen I have had. First off, the chicken and pork broth are extremely salty and it's also very thin. For anyone who knows anything about ramen, its the broth that makes ramen so good. They simply didn't do it right. Second, the serving is very small for a ramen bowl. You feel like they are really trying to cut costs... and they're doing a pretty bad job for $13+ a bowl. While service was pretty good, it was super cramped during lunch time. I brought my family and we were sitting with strangers, in addition to getting rubbed up on by waiters ever time they needed to slide in between tables to get something.

I'll start with the good: Pork buns were very very good savory, not too sweet, rich but not too heavy. I'd give it a "5" if it wasn't over-priced. Ramen borderline bad. Noodles were stiff and tangled in a lump that couldn't be separated in the lukewarm broth, which was too salty. There was also a stale-oil flavor to the chicken, like the cooking oil needed to be changed. Otherwise the chicken would've been tasty. And, >$40 for 2 bowls of noodles and one order of pork buns with no drinks is not "Cheap Eats" tho' it's listed as one of its "Features" here....

We are vegetarian and stopped in to try it out. They told us they had veggie options, so we were excited. We then sat down and ordered a bowl of pickles we then began to check the menu - we could find no suitable option for our diets and told them that we would have to go somewhere else. They then began demanding that we pay for the pickles, which we had not yet received, claiming that they had already been prepared Pickles?!? how do you prepare pickles? Take them out of the jar and plop them in a bowl? The fact that we hadn't gotten them yet after 10 minutes in a 1/4 full resteraunt was odd to begin with - and the pushy waitress did not help matters. Momo-fuku - aptly named.