SOBO Ramen

An afternoon of ramen, mahjong, and learning the game from the people who have been playing it for years. Join us for lunch, then pull up a chair for open play. Whether it’s your first time touching a tile or you already know your way around the table, our aunties will help you get into a game.

Lunch | 11:30 AM–3 PM

Priority Play | 2–3 PM

Public Play | 3–5 PM

Enjoy a ramen + drink during lunch to receive a wristband for priority play.

How Play Works

Check in with your wristband and we’ll help place you at a table. Tables have timed sessions so more guests get a chance to play. When your session ends, you can rejoin the waitlist if space is available.

From 3–5 PM, public play opens to everyone with a minimum food & drink spend per table. No wristband required.

Mahjong seating is limited and subject to capacity. Special Mahjong bites available for the afternoon only.

**Ramen:Lab** brought everyone behind the bowl for an evening of making, experimenting, and working together.

We started with the fundamentals: flour, water, kansui, and the process that transforms them into ramen noodles. Everyone mixed and kneaded their own dough, rolled and cut noodles, and learned how small changes can affect the final result. But Ramen:Lab was never meant to be just a noodle-making class. Teams were given a challenge — **Comfort, Bold, or Balance** — and asked to create a ramen bowl around that idea. They chose their broth, protein, toppings, and finishing elements, then named their creation and explained the thinking behind it. Some combinations worked exactly as expected. Others surprised us. That experimentation is the point. For us, ramen:Lab is about understanding ramen by making it, then seeing what happens when different people bring their own ideas to the same table. The first Lab is officially in the books.

When regular service ends, After:Hours gives us room to explore a different side of the restaurant. For this intimate dinner, a small group gathered around the table for a multi-course menu that moved beyond our everyday ramen experience. Familiar ingredients and flavors were reworked into new forms, with each course offering another perspective on the food we make at Sobo. The smaller format gives us freedom to experiment — with technique, presentation, ingredients, and the way a meal unfolds from beginning to end. More than a tasting menu, After:hours is our space to test ideas that may not belong on the regular menu, but still belong in the House of Sobo. A few seats. One table. One night.

Hello Soju was our take on one of the simplest ways to enjoy a night together: good food, cold sparkling soju, and something to share. For the evening, we explored soju beyond the usual bottle on the table, pairing sparkling flavors with classic still soju and letting guests mix, pour, and find their own combination. The night was casual by design. Drinks were shared, food kept coming, and tables settled into their own rhythm. It was less about a formal tasting and more about what soju has always done well — giving people a reason to pour another glass and stay at the table a little longer.

Sugoi brought beer and ramen together for a night built around tasting, pairing, and discovery. Guests explored a curated selection of beers alongside our food, comparing different styles and seeing how each changed the experience of the dishes at the table. Rather than treating beer as an afterthought, the night put it alongside the food — another flavor to explore, share, and talk about. A simple pairing became an excuse to experience something familiar a little differently.

Iichigo Night was an introduction to Japanese shochu through food, cocktails, and shared pours. For the evening, we explored Iichiko in different forms — from simple pours that let the spirit speak for itself to cocktails that showed how versatile shochu can be at the table. Paired with food from the Sobo kitchen, the night was designed less like a formal tasting and more like an approachable way to discover a spirit that many guests were experiencing for the first time. A night of new flavors, shared glasses, and another side of Japanese drinking culture.