After COVID closures, snow days, chronic staff turnover, a brutal slow season, and rising costs, the time has come to move on. The decision to close was purely financial, wrote owner Liz Davis in the restaurant’s newsletter. Service on our two visits has been solid, if not exceptional - friendly enough and quick (almost too quick) in whisking away empty bowls. The upscale Mexican restaurant closed on March 14. Prices are reasonable: $10 for ramens and $5-6 for sides. Boxer Ramen is a small chain of ramen restaurants in Portland, Oregon, United States. It may not be the most "authentic" ramen joint, but flavors are bold (The Tonkotsu-Shio is our favorite) and dishes creative (watch those fish flakes "dance" atop those addictive Tots, served piping hot in a tiny cast iron skillet!). That's it - simple as that! Food is really good, warming and filling. A few beers, sakes and non-alcoholic drinks and some mochi options. 119 reviews 164 of 2,043 Restaurants in Portland Japanese Asian Soups. 3 appetizers: Potstickers, Sesame Greens and "Okonomiyaki Tots". Menu is super-easy to decipher, just 4 ramen choices: a pork-filled "Tonkotsu-Shio", a "Shiitake Shiyo" with pickled mushrooms, a Red Miso, and a Vegetarian Curry. Music was 90s hip-hop on one visit, 60s-inspired surfer rock the next. Honestly I wasnt expecting too much from a non-Japanese Ramen place, but I was totally impressed by the tonkotsu Ramen. The space is "tall", exposed to the weathered underside of a century-old warehouse beams and lit by an array of skylights walls are festooned with illustrated characters slurping noodles and such.
Inside is a cozy mix of low, fixed stools placed around variously-sized tables and a winding countertop, spread across an aquamarine floor. Situated in a storefront opposite the Ace Hotel in the new Union Way "alley" that cuts between SW Stark St and W Burnside, Boxer Ramen (opened Fall 2013) sits rather inconspicuously at the south-facing entrance.
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