Best Ramen in Madrid

Chuka Ramen Bar sits on Echegaray in the Cortes barrio of Centro, and it's the one restaurant that turned up in every independent Madrid ramen article we were able to fetch directly. It opened on 14 November 2014 as one of the first true ramen bars in Madrid. Chuka is Japan's own take on Chinese cooking, which is why the ramen shares a carta with a clam dish in broth, a dark red cocktail and a cheesecake finished with fruit compote, rather than sitting on a straight noodle-shop menu. The kitchen runs Tuesday to Saturday across two sittings, with the doors shut in between. It holds a Repsol Solete. Plate Selector, reviewing the Madrid ramen scene, singled it out for blending Chinese and Japanese cooking traditions.

“the mixture between the Chinese and Japanese gastronomy”— Plate Selector

Yokaloka's sushi and ramen bar sits inside the Mercado de Antón Martín, at Calle de Santa Isabel 5, and carries a Solete in the Guía Repsol, which calls it perhaps the closest thing in Madrid to Japanese street food. The ramen comes with a deep broth and balanced heat, alongside sushi, house gyoza and chirashi bowls, and it serves lunch and dinner Monday to Saturday, closed Sundays. Time Out Madrid picked it out specifically for its ramen, calling it spectacular in a piece on the Madrid ramen scene. The group's Yokaloka Matute is a separate taberna and sake bar.

“donde el ramen es espectacular”— Time Out Madrid

Ramen Shifu opened its first taberna on Calle Ayala in the Goya barrio of Salamanca in January 2017. Founder Guo Jianyong based the house broth on the original Hakata recipe from Fukuoka, learned first-hand on repeated visits to the region's ramen masters, and the group has since grown into a chain of tabernas across Madrid and beyond. The broth is a four-hour tonkotsu made from pork bones, dense and whitish, served with thin noodles under a wide menu of up to 20 ramen, running from Tonkotsu, Shoyu and Miso to Fried Chicken, Ebi Tempura and Beef Curry versions, plus a spicy range and a vegan menu. Time Out Madrid noted it suits diners short on time.

“Último local del Grupo Ayala vale para ejecutivos con prisa”— Time Out Madrid

Ramen Yokohama is a Japanese restaurant on Calle de Andrés Mellado in the Gaztambide area of Chamberí, one of two Ramen Yokohama locations in Madrid. The kitchen leads with ramen in slow-cooked pork and vegetable broths, rounded out with sushi, nigiri, baos and maki, and it's built as an affordable, quick sort of place. The carta lists seven bowls, Chicken, Duck, Seafood, Ebi, Tonkotsu and Vegetable ramen plus a Tan Tan Men, at €10.95 to €12.95. Madrid Secreto's roundup of the city's ramen restaurants named it specifically for that range of broths.

“Hasta siete tipos diferentes de ramen: de pato, marisco, pollo”— Madrid Secreto

Okonomi San is a Japanese restaurant on Calle Maudes in Ríos Rosas, a residential grid north of Madrid's old centre, where the carta lives on the venue's own site. The room is cosy and casual with warm, attentive service, priced around 26 to 50 euros per person. Beyond ramen, the menu runs an udon section built in three separate preparations, plus a broth-free tan tan men finished with minced pork, spring onion and a dry egg yolk. Time Out Madrid picked it out specifically for that udon range in its piece on the city's best ramen.

“Fideos udon, preparados en tres versiones distintas”— Time Out Madrid

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Nakeima is an Asian fusion dumpling bar on Calle Meléndez Valdés in Gaztambide, founded by chefs Roberto Martínez and Gonzalo García after they worked together at a Nikkei restaurant in Madrid. Chef Gonzalo García and Luis Gómez-Bua founded it in 2013. It holds a Repsol Sol. There's no fixed menu and no reservations: each course arrives as a surprise and diners can stop once satisfied, with past courses including a beef-cheek wonton, dim sum built on ropa vieja, nigiri topped with Iberian ham and prawn, butterfish tataki in miso, and ramen. It seats only 20 diners a service, walk-in only, Tuesday to Saturday.

“Jóvenes con buenas ideas y magníficos resultados”— Time Out Madrid

Tora, tiger in Japanese, opened in 2022 as a contemporary Japanese taberna in the Castellana end of Salamanca, an intimate counter seating around ten, listed in the Michelin Guide. Behind it is footballer and businessman Mario Hermoso, for whom it's a first venture into hospitality. The carta is built for grazing: sashimi and nigiri by the piece, usuzukuri, tartares, temaki and tataki, with wagyu A5, Gillardeau oysters and caviar on it. One dish runs at lunch only, a Madrid-style wagyu-tripe shio ramen, priced at 26 euros, folding the callos a la madrileña tradition into a Japanese broth.

Torikey is a modern izakaya-style yakitori restaurant on Plaza del Descubridor Diego de Ordás in Ríos Rosas, in the north of Chamberí, spacious and casual, with omakase running alongside the carta. It was created by Hiroshi Kobayashi and Masahito Okazoe. It's listed in the Michelin Guide, which spells it Tori-Key. About 80% of the ingredients are imported from Japan, chicken is the star, using every part of the bird, and seasonal vegetables come from the neighbouring Mercado de Chamberí. The carta names a Tokyo-style ramen built on a Tori-Key chicken and soy broth, priced at 18 euros. Lunch runs 13:30 to 15:45, and the restaurant closes Mondays.

Umiko opened in 2015 on a simple idea from founders Juan Alcaide and Pablo Álvaro: Japanese technique on Spanish produce. It earned two Repsol Soles before closing unexpectedly in December 2025, in its tenth-anniversary year, over a dispute between the partners. Experience Group, a Madrid consumer-brands group, took over management and reopened it on 24 September 2026 at Calle de los Madrazo 6, in a refurbished space with a new visual identity. The reopened carta keeps the classics, including nigiri built on paella socarrat, a porra madrileña filled with gallina en pepitoria, and a ramen de carabinero, alongside a curry made with wild bluefin tuna cheeks from Tarifa.

Yan Ken Pon is a Japanese izakaya on Plaza Cascorro in Embajadores, run by chef Akihiro Yano, an itamae with more than 15 years' experience, alongside Twiggy Hirota, a sake sommelier certified by the Japan Culinary Academy. The stars are traditional Japanese sushi and homemade ramen, the broth cooked slowly for depth, in versions running from meat to vegan, curry, miso or prawn, alongside izakaya staples like okonomiyaki, takoyaki and gyoza. The carta names a Vegan Ramen with seaweed, enoki, spinach, inari and radish sprouts, and a Meat Ramen with pork and Chinese spring onion. It doubles as a cultural spot, with a Japanese library and workshops, and runs at a mid-lower spend of around 10 to 20 euros.

Lamian is chef Yong Ping 'Julio' Zhang's follow-up on the same Plaza de los Mostenses site that housed his earlier Soy Kitchen, an intimate Asian-fusion taberna in Universidad. The kitchen blends Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Taiwanese and Southeast Asian cooking with Spanish ingredients, centred on lamian, hand-pulled Chinese noodles, and ramen, served as sharing plates. The room is small and hard to book, and it has picked up a Michelin Plate distinction in both 2024 and 2025. Time Out Madrid included it in a roundup of the city's ramen, describing its ramen and lamian offering as a must for anyone tracking the scene.

“Taberna de ramen (o lamian=fideos chinos estirados a mano) es un 'must”— Time Out Madrid

Okashi is a Japanese restaurant on Calle de San Vicente Ferrer in Malasaña, founded in 2008 and part of the Okashi Sanda group, holding a Repsol Solete. It describes itself as the first certified fully gluten-free and lactose-free Japanese restaurant in the city, cooking traditional Japanese flavours beyond sushi, everything handmade, and has been adapting much of the menu for vegans since 2021. The carta names a spicy miso ramen and a plain ramen offered in shio or shoyu style, both around 15 to 16 euros, alongside takoyaki, gyozas, katsudon and tonkatsu.

Igo Pasta is a casual spot on Dolores Barranco in Usera, the district that serves as Madrid's Chinatown. The name points at Italian food, but the kitchen doesn't: its own site sets out ramen, Chinese classics, sushi and barbecue. The menu is built around ramen specifically, naming more than two dozen versions, from a Taro Ramen and a Braised Beef Ramen to a Duck Ramen and a Spicy Prawn Ramen, most priced between 10.50 and 12.50 euros, plus individual proteins sold as ramen add-ons. One flag worth knowing: the venue has warned that its email address was compromised and fraudulent messages have gone out in its name.

KungFu noodles sits on Calle Vergara in the Palacio barrio of Centro. It's open every day across two sittings, midday and evening, and is flagged as vegetarian-friendly. The menu, published on the venue's own site, names well over a dozen ramen dishes, including a cold vegetarian ramen, an original Lanzhou beef ramen and a Lanzhou cold ramen, alongside stir-fried and sauce-dressed versions with beef, chicken and seafood.