ZOOT

ZOOT (Zoot) is a unique establishment with two faces, operating as a ramen shop during the day and a motsuyaki izakaya (grilled offal pub) at night, despite its excellent location just a 1-minute walk from JR Hamamatsucho Station and Daimon Station. It's a local favorite where people working in Hamamatsucho visit for lunch and gather for drinks in the evening. The ramen menu for lunch is extensive, offering salt, miso, soy sauce, and tsukemen. Among them, the salt ramen is particularly distinctive, known as an evolved salt ramen that blends salts from Italy and France, served with a lemon to give it a Western flavor. Rather than a clear salt broth, it's known for its rich and mellow consistency, where chicken and seafood intensely intertwine. The miso ramen is also rich and enjoys enduring popularity, and the tsukemen is a unique variation with a dipping broth made from bonito and dried sardines, containing seaweeds like bean sprouts, wakame, and mozuku, which can be enjoyed even with soup-wari. The price range, around 1,000 yen, also makes it convenient for lunch. The noodle portion is generous and satisfying, and you can often get in relatively quickly even during busy lunch hours.