Nosu Tomomen

This place has been one of my favorites for years. Every time I am in Golden I make sure to stop by just to say hi, and to always enjoy whatever beef option is on the menu. The house Sake is a great standby, and I always appreciate how friendly the staff are to chat a little bit. For me, the consistently great food, kind and fun people, and good drink make this place a constant I love to be at.

Cute place, decent music (although a little loud), and excellent service and food if you’re looking for some hearty Korean comfort. Braised chicken ramen is incredibly spicy, but delicious. I love the addition of shishito peppers - they are a perfect pairing! The chicken katsu plate is also made very well and is tasty if you’re not in the mood for a broth kind of dish.

The place is inviting and comfortable and the service is personal and attentive. The ramen is good, but on the unorthodox side. I had the spicy chicken ramen and liked the poached egg, pickled lotus root and shishito peppers, but I found the huge slices of pickled ginger to be unnecessary. I was also surprised by the sweetness of the kimchi. My recommendation is to expect a twist on the traditional cuisine.

We came for happy hour (ends at 6pm, includes 3 apps and 3 cocktails). The pork belly buns were good! Buns are open buns with fluffy white bread and a couple of sauces. The soup dumplings were fabulous!!! Highly recommend the dumplings (we got several orders). The gin fizz was very refreshing too :) Casual and friendly. Would come again if we could!

While the ramen tastes fine, I wanted to warn takeout patrons as the restaurant clearly does not know the diminished quality of their product due to how the consistently container their noodles and broth. First of all, their broth container lids have a hole in the top, causing the broth to liquidate the bottom of the bag as it jostles around. Second, the ramen noodles are placed in a paper takeout bowl, where the paper actually fuses to the noodles and gets into your food. Gross. See picture attached, as I can literally turn the takeout bowl upside down and the noodles are clearly stuck adhered to the paper bowl. We called the restaurant to warn them and their feedback was “we never have heard of this before,” so no constructive conversation to try and better their takeout options and simply wrapping their noodles in Saran Wrap or something other like all other ramen shops do. Sad display of management.