Ramen at Restaurant Tengu

I had dinner yesterday evening with friends at a relatively new restaurant called TenGu. This is a restaurant that specializes in the Japanese Ramen dish (a type of noodle soup with different flavors and toppings). If your only experience with Ramen is the freeze-dried instant noodles, popular with poor college students, then you should really expand your horizons and try authentic Ramen! I grew up in Hawaii, where Ramen has been popular for ages, and this is definitely a delicious, Japanese comfort food well worth a try.

TenGu, whose name comes from a supernatural being in Japanese folklore, is run by the same group that has several other popular eateries in Stockholm, like Babette and Café Nizza, so it feels like you are in good hands. The restaurant has an industrial feel inside with high ceilings, exposed pipework and stone. It is actually housed within the former Stockholm School of Architecture, which is now A-House Ark, an event/office/workspace venue. You will also find two other culinary hotspots in the same building: Omaka and Mr Cake. 

You could say that the menu is divided in two. On one side you have snacks and smaller dishes, which are all perfect as sharing dishes for the table... which is what my friends and I did. These dishes aren't strictly Japanese but more Japanese inspired using seasonal produce. The three of us shared the pointed cabbage with sesame miso, bbq rooster wings and flank steak skewers. Very good!

On the other side of the menu is the ramen. They currently have four varieties... one of them being a vegetarian miso. Each of ramen can be ordered either in a smaller starter size or a larger main course size. I ordered a large, spicy Tan Tan Men. Really good and with just the right amount of kick to it. The open kitchen takes up the central part of the restaurant, with a food bar around it. I would like to stop by sometime and just sit at the bar in order to watch the chefs make the ramen. 

The restaurant is located in the northern part of central Stockholm, near the church Engelbrektskyrkan. The easiest way to get to TenGu from the Hotel Rival is by subway, red line in the direction of Mörby Centrum, to the station Tekniska Högskolan. From there it is just a 5-10 minute walk to the restaurant. If you are elsewhere in the city, you can also take the green line to the station Rådmansgatan. From there it is a 10-15 minute walk.