Boxer Ramen hosted a 'ramen free-for-all' on October 31, offering guests bowls at no cost from noon to 3:00 pm. October 9 was later announced as the opening date, but this was pushed back to November 1. In August, he and co-owner Katie Poppe confirmed plans to open in late September, but there were some delays while the restaurant offered 'soft openings' and 'test dinners'. Micah Camden announced plans to open Boxer Ramen in April 2013. History Original restaurant The southern entrance to Union Way, which houses the original Boxer Ramen restaurant, in 2016 The fourth Boxer Ramen location added a bowl with short ribs to the menu, along with cocktails, including a Moscow mule and yuzu-infused gin and tonic. Mochi ice cream shipped from Bubbies in Honolulu is available for dessert flavors include passion fruit. Rotating side dishes included Japanese pickles, ohitashi spinach salads, okonomiyaki tater tots, pork belly buns and pot stickers. Other soup ingredients include pork belly, scallions, and soft poached eggs. Within a year, two additional ramen options were added: shiitake, featuring a mushroom-pork bone dashi, and vegetarian yellow curry, with coconut milk, corn, stock, and tofu. When it opened, Boxer Ramen's menu featured noodle soups with noodles made by Sun Noodle Company and two types of broth: spicy miso and tonkotsu-shoyu. The original restaurant accepted cash only and did not offer take-out containers, as of 2013. Alexander Basek of Food & Wine said of the interior: 'Boxer's generous use of hot pink and unfinished plywood for decor bestows Boxer's small interior with a work-in-progress vibe.' The restaurant on Albert Street features 'utilitarian plywood decor' and umbrellas hanging from the ceiling, an alley spray-painted gold, and a mural described as 'drawings of animal-people eating bowls of animal-people, like an anime episode of BoJack Horseman'. Wu-Tang Clan bumps from the sound system and an entire wall is clad in a mural of three cute but devilish Japanese girls hovering over a chicken, pig, or tuna leaping from a ramen bowl.' Portland Monthly said of the original location's atmosphere and interior: 'Micah Camden's neo-pop noodle house looks like a ramen shop designed by Lucky Peach magazine. Three additional locations have opened since 2013. It has been described as a 'sister restaurant' to Boxer Sushi, opened by Micah Camden in southeast Portland's Hawthorne district in 2012 and closed in September 2014. The original 30-seat ramen shop is located in Union Way, a multi-use retail 'alleyway project' in the space formerly occupied by Red Cap Garage, in downtown Portland's West End. All of the restaurants closed temporarily in 2020 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic the two most recent closures have been converted into other restaurants operated in part by Camden.īoxer Ramen is a small chain of fast casual restaurants in Portland, Oregon. Boxer Ramen opened a third, fourth, and fifth location in March 2016, December 2017, and 2018, respectively. Matt Lynch and Chris Thornton have since joined as partners.

Micah Camden and Katie Poppe opened the original 30-seat restaurant in 2013, followed by a second in January 2015.

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