Ramen-Ya Hiro
Japanese Ramen · Eixample, Barcelona · €€
Open since 2012
Chef Hiroki Yoshiyuki from Mihara, Hiroshima — Barcelona's first specialised ramen counter, opened on Carrer de Girona in 2012. Twenty seats, noodles made fresh nightly on a Japanese pasta machine, broth simmered ten-plus hours, no reservations.
The Delekta Review
Hiroki Yoshiyuki is from Mihara (Hiroshima Prefecture) — went to Sydney on a working visa to learn ramen, then four years at Barcelona's Tempura-Ya before opening his own counter in 2012 Asked for the broth recipe, Yoshiyuki replies: it's a secret — twenty seats, equipment imported from Japan, noodles made every evening
Counter-only ramen bar — no waiters in the seated-restaurant sense, the kitchen is part of the room
Shoyu ramen (chicken-pork-seafood broth, soy-seasoned, with chashu, marinated egg, nori, bamboo shoots); miso ramen (deeper umami, with corn, scallions, soy sprouts) Gyoza with pork, shiitake and cabbage; cha-shu-don (rice bowl with braised pork belly); onigiri; fresh mochi; sesame flan as a quiet closer
Counter-only ramen bar — no front-of-house divide, the kitchen is the room and the cooks are the hosts.
Walk-in only — expect 40 to 60 minute waits at lunch, up to two hours at dinner; lunch set (ramen + gyoza) keeps the entry near €10–11
Quoted in
“It's food of the common man turned cool.” — Sam Zucker · Barcelona Metropolitan
What the critics say
- Ramen-Ya Hiro - Time Out Barcelona
- Ramen Ya Hiro in Barcelona
- Ramen-ya Hiro, best ramen restaurant in Barcelona - Barcelona Food Hunters
- Ramen-Ya Hiro – Macarfi
- Restaurante Ramen-Ya Hiro (Bon Viveur dedicated article)
Visit
- Address
- Carrer de Girona, 164, Local 2, Eixample, 08037 Barcelona, Spain
- Phone
- +34 659 80 96 12
- Website
- ramenyahiro.com
- Reservations
- Book a table
Nearby restaurants in Eixample
- Batea — Seafood, €€€
- Besta — Seasonal Seafood Bistro, €€€
- Mordisco — Modern Mediterranean, €€€
- Embat — Bistronomic Mediterranean, €€
- Topik — Japanese-Catalan Fusion Tapas, €€€
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- Kobuta Ramen — Ramen & Japanese Tapas, Sants, €€
- Koku Kitchen Ramen — Japanese Ramen, Barri Gòtic, €€
- Noru Bar — Contemporary Japanese Ramen, Poblenou, €€
- Kanada-Ya — Japanese Tonkotsu Ramen, Eixample, €€