Torraku Ramen

San Francisco, United States

3.9

Closed now

7 reviews

Accepts Credit Cards
Free Wi-Fi

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Telephone:
+1 415-937-4357
Website:
www.torrakuramen.com
Address:
428 11th Street, San Francisco, CA, 94103
b/t United States Highway 101 & Harrison St
SoMa
Nearby public transportation stops & stations:
0.5 miMarket St & South Van Ness Ave
0.5 miMarket St & Van Ness Ave
0.5 miVan Ness Muni
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Takes Reservations
No
Delivery
Yes
Take-out
Yes
Accepts Credit Cards
Yes
Accepts Bitcoin
No
Good For
Lunch
Parking
Street
Bike Parking
Yes
Wheelchair Accessible
Yes
Good for Kids
Yes
Good for Groups
Yes
Attire
Casual
Alcohol
Full Bar
Outdoor Seating
Yes
Wi-Fi
Free
Has TV
Yes
Dogs Allowed
Yes
Waiter Service
No
Caters
Yes

Today

Today 11:00 am – 9:00 pm
Closed now
Local time (San Francisco) 01:49 Friday, 27 June 2025

Business hours

Monday 11:00 am – 8:30 pm
Tuesday 11:00 am – 8:30 pm
Wednesday 11:00 am – 8:30 pm
Thursday 11:00 am – 8:30 pm
Friday 11:00 am – 9:00 pm
Saturday 11:00 am – 9:00 pm
Sunday 11:00 am – 8:00 pm

Description

Specialties

San Francisco based Ramen Truck

Offering organic pork-​chicken broth cooked to perfection within 15 hours. Chashu (Roasted pork shoulder) and Kakuni (Braise pork belly) available. Serving fried garlic, black garlic, and spiciness to your needs.

Veggie ramen available with vegan miso broth with your 3 choices of veggies!

History

Established in 2015.

We are 3 best friends with great attitude trying to bring delicious ramen available on truck. The chef (Chen) has been working in ramen restaurants for over 10 years studying, learning and experimenting what would be the best for making such a phenomenal everyday casual food to the next level.

The chef hard work and talent brought the previous ramen shop that he work secretly featured in «Thrillist SF» this year 2015 and decided to open his own ramen business starting with the truck.

Meet the Business Owner

Ben N.

Business Owner

Ben is one of the owner has been working in restaurant, hotel, and photography industries for over 10 years both in New York City and San Francisco.

With proper training from the high end restaurant and one of the recognizable hotel in downtown San Francisco, Ben has earn multiple great reviews from his clients

Opening food truck is one of huge dream that Ben has ever dreamt of. Studying the process and making the system is always the big challenge in the process. But everything couldn’t be happen without support and commitment from his wife and 2 other partners.

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7 reviews of Torraku Ramen

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Place rating: 3
Oakland, CA
in my experience, Torraku Ramen is the first to serve ramen via a food truck in the bay area. many options of ramen available, choose Tonkotsu chashu with med. spiciness and garlicky.
locale: SF soma street park (2÷8÷16)
eats: tonkotsu chashu, etc (12+tax)
–first tasting of broth hinted a mistake in ordering spiciness, no tonkotsu flavor came thru,
tonkotsu flavor too faint.
-«chashu» just lean pork, not chashu at all.
–½ egg was hard boiled and looked more like an tea egg, brownish in pigmentation, soy sauce flavored
–bamboo, seaweed, chewy noodles rounded out the experience
–everything tasted «fresh», though not authentic, some msg may be present,
2.5 stars for inauthencity, lack of value.
temaki:
–ramen came out in 5 minutes
–server was concerned whether i was eating it right away. told him «yes»
i know ramen doesn’t keep long. sogginess a possible dilemma.
Place rating: 5
San Francisco, CA
Torraku Ramen is amazing!!!
I ordered the Tonkotsu Ramen with Chashu with Kakuni added, and it was delicious.
The broth was scrumptiously and beautifully prepared with top notch ingredients.
I added aged black garlic to this gourmet bowl of noodles which enhanced the flavor.
Noodles, meat, veggies, soup base were all perfect.
It’s damn near hard to find a ramen place in the bay area this good without having to wait 2 hours to be seated.
Will definitely come back again!
Place rating: 3
San Francisco, CA
I absolutely love tonkotsu ramen so have to try any bowl which is easily accessible. I’m not gonna travel to the peninsula to wait an hour or two for some strip mall ramen, but I’ll totally get a tonkotsu bowl from a nearby food truck. I often use Ippudo NY as my benchmark, since comparing to joints in Tokyo really isn’t fair. Theirs was just ok, hence the «A-​OK» 3-​star.
Tonkotsu Ramen w/​Kakuni, Black Garlic, Spicy: You pick your ramen, your garlic (black or fried) and your spicy level. I went with second spiciest (basically the highest level where you don’t have to pay extra). That was probably a mistake. Not because it was too spicy, but because it overpowered the flavor of the broth. It tasted more like chalky chili powder than it did like tonkotsu. Maybe the broth just wasn’t that distinctive if it couldn’t stand up to the chili powder? The kakuni (pork belly) was nice; tender and heavily infused with 5-​spice. The noodles were decently chewy. The bamboo shoots were a bit too chewy. The seaweed was soggy from noodle steam after a quick walk home. The half soft boiled egg was nice and creamy.
Place rating: 4
San Francisco, CA
The place seems relatively new but the Customer service was excellent. Pretty boy helped me pick my order of tonkatsu. The noodle soup was on point, hella meat but the soup was a little salty. Definitely coming back again though. #torrakuramen #comeforlunch #comefordinner
#bringyourself #bringyourentirefamily #heckbringyourfriendsentirefamily
Place rating: 5
San Francisco, CA
One of a kind ramen and awesome customer service! Especially Benny who gives great suggestions!!!
Place rating: 2
Telegraph Ave, Berkeley, CA
Super slow to order and make ramen. And way overpriced. Tax is not included. Spent about 40 minutes to get my ramen after ordering.
Edit: owner contacted me and explained that they just opened and are still getting into the flow of things. I’ll try it again in the future and see if it’s improved
Place rating: 5
San Francisco, CA
I guess my timing was better than the first poster; I got there well after the lunchtime peak and waited for 10 minutes for mine. It was their first day of operation, so perhaps one should cut them some slack. So how was the ramen?
I liked my shoyu ramen with chashu just fine (though I’m not a ramen fanatic and therefore inexpert). It was piping hot, the medium curly noodles pleasantly chewy, and the broth deep in flavor and not overly salty. The (no cost) spicy option had the broth respectably spicy, so there’s no need to order the «Extra Spicy» add-​on unless you are a chili head. Not a lot of protein in the toppings, but hey, it’s ramen.
I don’t see a point in complaining about the price when you can see it up front before you order, though I am a little irritated when tax is added on, when most food trucks build it into the price. Double digit prices are, unfortunately, becoming the rule rather than the exception at new ramen joints.