Mōtōneko Café & Izakaya

"After spending 5 years in Los Angeles I was hoping for a good ramen find back home… this is not the place. Very unprofessional, no real kitchen, and the preparations for the dish itself was very unordered and quite frankly kind of gross! Mystery pork belly from an abyss of ingredients cooked and prepared in a toaster oven… the broth was made with sink water. The ramen is instant noodles. And worst of all it was all prepared without the use of gloves or at least a hand wash. Before my ramen was finished the employee decided it was a great idea to eat some pizza behind the counter. My mind was already made up. Absolutely do not recommend. Especially for a 15 dollar bowl of ramen. Stick to coffee, this place is doing too much. Edit: for an owner to respond that it’s okay to eat pizza, touch everything around the kitchen, and handle my food all without washing hands is hilariously petty. Never worked in a restaurant kitchen? I’ve worked in a Michelin star restaurant as a sous chef. Do not try to belittle people into believing that what you’re doing is sanitary and okay. The ramen isn’t the best in town. Yokoso ramen is 100 times better."

"Place is very nice! Every Thursday they hold Smash Tournaments and it gets pretty busy. Service is great! Although it is somewhat slow compared to other places as there is only one person manning the entire operation, but the place is nice so I didnt mind the wait and it is not too long. I highly recommend it if you like anime as well! The decoration is great and they have anime running in the TV. The food is good, especially the fat boy ramen, and the coffee is great!"

"The food was so delicious! I got the Piggy Ramen and shared some of the dumplings with a friend. The eggs were perfect and the broth was amazing. Pork belly absolutely fire."

"Amazing ramen spot!! I absolutely recommend this place. The manga wall and motorcycles are worth coming to see and taking pictures with. My boyfriend and I love anime, and he is especially passionate about Japanese cars/bikes, so we both loved everything about this place. Our server, Lux, was incredibly friendly and it was a pleasure talking with her. I ordered a Fat Boy Ramen and it was delicious and filling. I'd like to come back some day and have some coffee!"

"My boyfriend and I visited here at about 6pm on November 2nd. The person behind the counter was very kind and informed us that they were having a video game get together of sorts but I could still order. My boyfriend got an iced coffee and a fat boy ramen while I got the thai iced latte, takoyaki and the piggy ramen. My boyfriend and I sat down at about 6:15 to wait for our food. 30 minutes ago by and we get just the drinks. About 15 after that the takoyaki shows up. At 7:13 we got the ramen which was comicly smaller than the images I had seen. The eggs in the ramen we had were cold to the touch, and the ramen brooth was lukewarm. I will say the noodles did taste very nice and that's as good as I can say for this meal. My boyfriend says he feels like we were forgot about because from where he was sitting he saw someone who came in after us get their whole order before we even got an appetizer."