Sapporo Ramen

Sapporo Ramen, located in Cambridge, MA, is a Japanese noodle house serving up authentic ramen. Come enjoy some of the best noodles on the east coast.

Diminutive noodle shop in Porter Exchange's Asian food court doles standout (and super cheap) bowls of Japanese and Korean soup.

The eatery accepts cash only, but there's an ATM on site.

"Extremely long lines" and "limited seating" don't deter ramen mavens from swarming this Porter Square shop doling out "delicious", "high-quality" noodles; "understanding" hosts do their best to mitigate the wait, but no matter how long it takes, it's "worth it", especially with such cheap prices.

Q: What was your restaurant standby this year?
MC Slim JB, restaurant critic, The Improper Bostonian: A tie: Strip-T's in Watertown in the mid-range, Dumpling Café in Chinatown at the low end. Despite all the new restaurants I was supposed to be researching, I started many days this year thinking about these places in the morning and plotting my day to visit them. They draw me in like magnets.
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A new Japanese restaurant called Ittoku is slated to move into the current home of Petit Robert Bistro on Comm Ave in Brighton, and not only will it serve ramen, as previously reported, but it may serve ramen like that of local favorite Sapporo Ramen in Porter Square, made by some of the Sapporo Ramen team themselves. The blog Japanese-American in Boston hears that Ittoku is "a joint venture...

Once I'm up and mobile, it's time for ramen. I enjoy a good bowl of ramen fairly often without nursing a hangover, but if I'm banged up from the night before my first move is to Sapporo Ramen in the Porter Exchange to load up on hot soup and noodles. One bowl of spicy miso or tan tan men and I'm good to go for the day.

Japanese Authentic Ramen specializing in "Paitan" style Chicken Broth noodle bowls.