Momo No Ki Ramen Noodle - Shropshire

This restaurant was not called what we expected. There was no shop front with Momo no ki on the sign. On the street was a pub/bar and its only from this site we asked about the noodle bar. The building was lovely, very old and characterful. We were sent upstairs and told there are two menus. Confusing if you walk in off the street and no menu online anywhere. However we both ordered ramen from the short menu given to us. It was hot, tasty and plentiful. No space for pudding either. Just needs more signage and publicity!

Very lucky yo have this place in Shrewsbury and it is a credit to the food scene of the town. The food is excellent ramen with all the trimmings and tasys af! Having travelled around Japan recently, it definitely compares. The starters and other menu items were really good especially the pork bites with cucumber they were so moreish! 4* for service as strangely no drink menu (only wine menu). Decor and atmosphere was also nice! Appropriately japanese/Asian without trying too hard or losing the fact that the restaurant is in an old English building.

Deceiving. Not a ramen restaurant, with only one ramen option. The ramen cost £20, and it was of poor quality. It tasted a bit artificial and was tomatoey. The bao bun pork belly was difficult to eat and had sriracha sauce covering the entire bun. The service was all over the place. All nice guys, but we had 4-5 different people serving us, the staff was dispersed across 3 different restaurant areas. Confusing location. The atmosphere was actually nice inside but from the outside we couldn’t even tell that the MOMO restaurant was open, we were about to leave when we noticed the logo appended on the very top window of the building. Basically it’s a restaurant area with pub, Japanese and maybe Cuban restaurant?

We left without eating our food. We had to sit in the main restaurant area as the Momo area wasn’t open not a problem at all and actually the atmosphere is lovely. The only bad thing was the music choice, it didn’t match the environment or ambiance at all. I think they were playing pop or something similar when really they should have chosen something that matched the restaurant. I was disappointed in the menu, it was a very small limited menu. I love ramen I have travelled the world tasting different ramen’s and this is by far the worst. First of all they didn’t have the protein advertised on the menu (can’t remember what it is now) and they offered me salmon instead which I wasn’t a fan of since I like traditional ramen. This was the first red sign for me. I asked them is that the only option, they said they can do chicken. Perfect. When the food arrives I was so disappointed. It was like an English pub take on ramen. If you know what I mean by that then you understand that the ramen was poor quality with little taste. I asked for chicken and the waitress informed me that they could do the ramen with chicken nuggets. Chicken nuggets!! I was literally in disbelief, what Japanese cuisine restaurant offers chicken nuggets with ramen. I said no to that, then the waitress went to talk to the chefs. She came back and said they can do roast chicken. I was quite apprehensive but said okay. It was SO tender and chewy I couldn’t eat it. With each mouthful I was regretting eating at all so I decided to not eat it and asked for it to be taken off the bill. My mother ordered a burger (not the Momo menu) and the beef was so dry she didn’t eat it. And my sister ordered a rice and chicken dish, which again seemed like an English take on the Japanese cuisine. They just poured so much sauce over her rice that it was all gooey and horrible to eat. She also didn’t eat her meal. We left leaving three means uneaten and went to a different Japanese place in Shrewsbury.

WOW! pimp my noodle is back and with a bang really tasty food, great service and piggy bits on point! Thanks team we will be back.