(accepted certifications of excellence until 2019)
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Mutekiya has received a 4.5 rating in the restaurant category for seven consecutive years.
Over the years, we have been named the "first in the restaurant category in Toshima-ku, Tokyo".
It is a great honor to receive such high evaluations from our customers.
All staff members Mutekiya
We have been established for 60 years and have been alongside the development of Ikebukuro.
In the 30 years since Mutekiya’s establishment at its current Ikebukuro location, we have earned high praise for our ramen earning high praise in TV features and magazine articles alike.
We are grateful to our loyal customers for introducing us to people far and wide and giving us the opportunity to welcome many international guests every single day.
Depending on the wait, there may be occasions when we ask customers to wait outside. We appreciate your understanding and apologize for the inconvenience.
We trademarked our restaurant’s name “Mutekiya” in 1994.
This establishment is completely unrelated to any similarly named Mutekiya restaurants in other countries.
Among the eight allergens subject to mandatory food labeling in Japan, our products may contain "wheat, egg, shrimp, crab, milk" depending on the item.
HONMARU-AJI is a product inspired by the famous Spanish dish "Ajillo."
It offers the delicate umami of pork oil that does not lose to the flavor
of olive oil.In Japanese cuisine, the term "Kaerimi" is used to describe not an
intense burst of umami, but the lingering deliciousness felt after eating.
We carefully cook domestically sourced, top-quality pork fat in a pressure cooker every
three hours to create a freshly made pork oil that has a detectable sweetness.
If you prefer a lighter flavor, enjoy the ramen with less oil to experience the soup's original taste.
The addition of garlic further elevates the flavor of the ramen soup!
We have created Mutekiya's special braised pork ramen based on the requests of many customers, known as the "JUNKER Legend."A popular dish at Mutekiya, this ramen is homemade and supplely simmered to perfection then topped with a stack of thick cut roasted pork fillet.
This is the most popular ramen noodles in Mutekiya that includes soft, thick-sliced roast pork and a soft-boiled egg that is preserved in soup.
Meat and shredded scallop wontons. Famous for their delicious, juicy taste.
This is the richest soup in Mutekiya that uses pork born and pork meat as ingredients. It is extremely popular with youth.
Popular ramen especially to Japanese people with mild flavor and much collagen inside.
This is a very popular ramen, made with natural bonito oil that gives a fragrant and strong savory flavor.
Enjoy your fill of Mutekiya’s sliced roast pork, the specialty of the house.
This is a rich miso flavor of pork bone soup!It has received a high level of evaluation comparable to that of a specialty restaurant in Hokkaido.
Despite its appearance of spiciness with powdered chili pepper, and bell pepper powder, it has a moderate level of spiciness.
This is a crab miso-flavored ramen, featuring crab miso and shrimp oil added to a pork and chicken soup.
Sliced pork seasoned with chashu sauce and shiraga negi (white hair leek) dipped in tasty spicy sauce are the perfect match for ramen!
Grated Hokkaido Cheese goes very well on top of Delicious and Spicy Green Onion. We recommend you try it.
The soup is has a strong and delicious flavor, with just the right amount of spiciness.
By adding gated cheese to the soup, you can enjoy a creamy delicious and spicy soup.
Basic ramen. Add any toppings you like from the last page on the menu to make your own ramen.
Enjoy no-soup noodles! Pour the sauce over all, and mingle noodles and ingredients together before eating them.
It's even tastier if you add Grated Hokkaido Cheese as a topping after mixing the noodles, other ingredients, and sauce!
Soy sauce based sauce with rich flavor of meat.
※Toppings are served on a separate plate.
A popular tsukemen (dipping ramen) with fragrant and savory oil made from bonito flakes.
First, add a bit of wasabi and salt to the noodles and enjoy.
※Toppings are served on a separate plate.
Soy sauce based sauce made of rich soup of moderate spiciness.
Enjoy the savory flavor of powdered dried sakura shrimp.
※Toppings are served on a separate plate.
At Mutekiya, the soup which is the most important thing for our ramen,
is made three times a day in our kitchen.
We have a policy of making ramen with freshly made sweet-smelling soup every day.
Using a large number of high-quality pork bones and boiling them for 16 hours a day to emulsify at a high concentration, our freshly made soup is well-received for its refined and refreshing taste without any unpleasant odor or roughness that can only be tasted in freshly made soup.
Mutekiya does not use concentrated soup or extract. We use 100% natural homemade soup.
The ingredients we use may contain the seven allergens required by Japan's food labeling law, including "wheat" and "eggs," and depending on the product, allergens such as "crab," "shrimp," and "milk" may also be present.
Please add your leftover ramen soup and spices to the rice bowl, mix well, and enjoy!
When mixing the soup, condiments, and rice together, the Hokkaido grated cheese topping goes very well with it.
Roast pork and green onion are topped on a bowl of rice.
Mix iwanori (rock laver) and rice together before you eat.
Please mix the tyashyu meat with rice before eating it.
Please mix the tyashyu meat with egg yolk before eating it.
Cooked in salt with Kujo green onion, roasted pork and fried garlic.
We wrap vegetables and pork minces with sticky dough and bake it. It is juicy and delicious.
Meat and shredded scallop wontons.
Famous for their delicious, juicy taste.
We use the most delicious brand rice of Japan. (250g)
A small amount of cooked rice. (150g)
BEER(medium-sized bottle) Asahi SUPER“DRY” KIRIN ICHIBANSHIBORI
A half-boiled egg soaked in broth.
We serve softly boiled pork, scorching it with a burner.
This soft, thinly sliced meat is flavored with chashu (Japanese-style roasted pork fillet) sauce.
This is sauteed with cabbage and bean sprouts in light seasoning.
Chopped onions fried to have a rich aroma. Add them to your ramen soup to make it even more delicious.
This is sliced deep-fried garlic.
Shredded white onion, washed in cold water to reduce the spiciness of the onion, crispy and crunchy.
This is long green onion that is directly transported from Kyoto every day.
These sliced green onion stems are the perfect mixture of delcious and spicy. They become even tastier if you add grated cheese as a topping.
This is bamboo shoot that is boiled with broth softly.
We harvest nanohana (or field mustard) before blooming and boil it, and then we serve soft top part of it.
This is sun-dried seaweed that stuck on rocks on the shore.
Made from minced pork, spice vegetables, and chili peppers. Please dissolve this into your ramen soup and enjoy.
This is an unsalted ramen soup. Please add this into the ramen if you want to enjoy your fill of the ramen soup at a thinner salinity.