Umaimon Ramen Barcelona BALMES, Japanese ramen restaurant in Balmes street, Barcelona, Spain.
Umaimon Ramen Barcelona BALMES is a Japanese noodle restaurant on Balmes street in Barcelona, focused on chicken-based ramen. The menu offers several broth variations made by cooking meat and bones over a long time, each paired with noodles of a different texture.
The restaurant opened in Barcelona and introduced traditional Japanese noodle cooking to the city's dining scene. It has kept its preparation methods close to those used in Japan since the beginning.
The restaurant brings Japanese dining customs to Barcelona by serving ramen in deep ceramic bowls and teaching diners to use chopsticks. This way of eating feels different from typical Spanish meals and shows how Japanese food culture has taken root in the city.
The restaurant is open for dinner on most evenings and has a casual setting with no dress code. First-time ramen diners can ask staff for help choosing a bowl, as the team is used to guiding people through the menu.
One of the bowls, the Noukou Ramen, is served with a deeply concentrated chicken broth made by cooking the bones much longer than usual. This gives it a thicker texture and a stronger flavor that stands apart from the other options on the menu.
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