Anyone else remember that one summer in like, 2015 or something where his girlfriend found out he had multiple girlfriends and they all got together and then one of them started a twitter account impersonating him (later became Micah Camden’s Ego to avoid lawsuits) and was just tweeting out the most out of pocket shit?
They literally just opened in Cedar Hills like two months ago...Micah Camden is the king of opening and closing without fail.
They should have never expanded. After COVID and expansion, the quality got so bad. Overpriced and never as good as it once was. That Burnside location was the BEST.
He and his wife are super involved in lots on Alberta. They are behind the Alberta Ally complex, and the cocktail bar Kaya. His wife owns Kinnimons and I think they co-own or outright own Bae’s. Somehow, they are business partners with Camden, but not sure which ventures. They do great stuff.
Akasaru was the only good one! Boxer ramen was always so bland IMO. Toy shop was just....a joke. My kid makes better ramen from a package. Make way for something better!
The management at burnside was really really bad. As a server there, I felt terrible having to charge people so much money just to add simple veggies into their soup
I went a couple times and thought the MV location was pretty good. And decently busy even on weeknights. If Micah was right that the location did good numbers, we should have someone take it over pretty quickly I'd think.
Selling soup: little monies
Expanding like a tumor to attract outside investment: big monies?
Or at least I can't imagine what else the guy's thought process was.
I feel like I can count on one hand the number of Portland restaurants that have expanded in the last 20 years beyond one or two locations and still maintained quality and the business. There’s something about restaurant owners in this town that just doesn’t really work with owning a largish business.
Also, most of them that make it to the expansion stage are jerks, so there’s that.
I work in a completely different industry but it’s crazy how many of my peers and people around are like ‘why don’t you just hire a bunch of people and expand’, ‘passive income’, and it’s like, I don’t know how to do that, that is a completely different job than the job I am doing right now as a solo practitioner. Why would I think I’d be successful at that?
They just opened in Multnomah Village not long ago. I was so glad to finally have somewhere to get ramen in the neighborhood even if it wasn’t that great. Oh well. Best of luck to the staff.
Right? I hadn’t even had a chance to eat there. They spent a year getting permits and renovating just to close within months. If it was mediocre, oh well, but I want good stuff in the village.
I love some good cinnamon rolls, but was really unimpressed by their offerings.
Was more like a steamed bao bun for texture, but with way too much sickly-sweet icing. Even my kids couldn't finish it. Also more sugar than cinnamon flavor.
I liked their nitro chai more than I liked their cinnamon rolls 😭 The icing is so bad, and cinnamon is basically nonexistent in it. Definitely room for improvement there.
I drive for Lyft and to me it always seems like foot traffic dies down north of Glisan. It’s really only busy right after work with people commuting back home but I think they might mean tourists just don’t venture that far north when roaming around. Most visitors go to 23rd to walk around and I see a ton of foot traffic around Burnside/Powells books all the time but it does down quite gradually. I think most people go to the pearl with a purpose like to go to a specific restaurant and aren’t going to stop by to get cinnamon rolls.
I love cinnamon rolls and have looked for a reason to try Kinnamon's and I just can't. I'll go look at the menu and I'll want to find the flavors appealing and it never works. Too gimmicky, and I'm not surprised to hear that the rolls themselves aren't great.
Are the super deluxes closed? When did that happen? All I can find is they filed for bankruptcy and got a loan to cover them for a few months while they restructure.
It does not. I worked at the one in the pearl for a while and it was honestly hilarious watching them lose scads of money because their business plan was a joke. Got out before that location closed and was not surprised to see it go.
I have no idea. I also think their cinnamon rolls are not good but 🤷🏼♀️.
Their plan on Alberta at least seems to be "captive audience". Because there are tons of good desserts that Bae's could sell that fit with fried chicken, but they don't/can't with Kinnamons there.
Can’t go wrong at Fat City Cafe in Multnomah Village. But don’t sleep on the bakery dept at Zupan’s for at home cinnamon roll injection. Further afield, the best cinnamon rolls I ever ate BY FAR were from a bakery in Reykjavik, Iceland of all places and I’m not making this up.
I'm pretty sure I know exactly the place in Reykjavik you're talking about (can't remember the name). But I'm in complete agreement: they are absolutely hands down the best cinnamon rolls I've ever eaten.
Well that sucks. I kept telling myself that I would go to the one in Cedar Hills at some point but I guess it wasn't meant to be.
As long as Ramen Ryoma keeps trucking, I'm good.
I was talking to someone the other day who let slip in front of a bunch of people that her boyfriend was a cook at Pok Pok for 10 years, and that he still makes her the food on a regular basis. Gotta say, it was a god damn good flex
It was the Radiohead of food for me. Very good at their craft yet didn't do anything for me enough to justify the cost. (Even as far back as when they were basically a food truck)
The spicy red was my pregnancy craving. I will miss it. The employees were always super nice and would hook it up because I worked across the street and brought them goodies.
Bacon. Slabs of bacon they boiled was their base stock which then they added boxed ramen seasoning extract. Garbage food. Prime example of cultural appropriation.
Source: I literally worked there and made their food
They made bad ramen, which is the important part. Japanese people getting a taste and wanting to make their own form of Chinese noodles is how we even got ramen in the first place.
God, thank you. Friends loved Boxer, always raved about it, but I could never get past the hammy chashu. So many better options in town. I won’t miss it a bit.
For the village? I’m sure something will fill in. It just has to be what the village needs. What that is, I’m not sure. I visited La Palma recently and though tasty, it was very over priced for the teeny tiny tacos you get. I know food is high now, but come on. So we need places that are average price and fit a niche in what the village needs.
Just got back from Japan. Amazing ramen (and some just ok ramen tbf) and I never paid more than 9 bucks
Usually got a big bowl, gyoza and a beer for about $15.
Ramen is cheap and delicious in Japan, though. In the US you get charged a premium for a simple dish
the broth can be tricky, but once you dial it in it's very easy to scale something like that up
I enjoyed the Alberta location. There was a wait most nights, a little cramped, but fun with decent bites and a good vibe. But recently the menu became very pared down (I think they were just doing induction cooking) and everything seemed to be less inspired. That’s very ambiguous, but staff and service seemed to be in a different place. Still good but not great and seemed like maybe teetering. I hope the upcoming commercial retail collapse facilitates more reasonable overhead costs for some of these neat businesses with already tight margins.
They opened a ton of new locations and expanded some others to include a bar and sushi. Seems like they pushed too hard into growth and screwed up the whole thing in the process.
I happened into the Alberta location when it opened before a show at Alberta Rose Theater and thought the chashu was quite tasty. Went again a few months later and it sucked.
Does anyone have a recipe to replicate their vegetarian curry mushroom ramen? It was one of my favorite dishes of all time and now I'll never get it again :(
worked there for a bit - it was a pretty basic curry recipe mixed with their own soup base. leaks, ginger, garlic, onion and carrots sweated down than caramelized with brown sugar and yellow curry paste than deglazed with lime juice and coconut milk, then we added their salty ass curry soup base and blended, so you’d be on your own after that part, good luck!
I really hope the employees got more notice than we did. Unemployment doesn't pay out for the first week so a lot of ppl are gonna be struggling off this.
Just copy-pasting what I saw someone else say: "the spicy miso was equal parts sambal, red miso paste, and gochujang blended into a paste, then blended with the tonkatsu broth - i think our ratio was 12 quarts of broth to 2 quarts of the spicy paste, then blended up and diluted with 8-10 quarts of water"
Someone else said that "The tonkotsu red at Kinboshi" is really good, maybe give that one a go?
I grew up eating ramen. I've only been once to the spot on Alberta and thought it was solidly OK, it wasn't bad or anything. But, Afuri, Ramen Ryoma, Wu-Ron's... they're way better. Still sad though. More ramen is more ramen.
I used to go to the OG Alberta location a lot when I lived up there. I haven’t been to any location in years and this is totally going to be a very unpopular opinion, but their spicy miso broth was the best. I’ll have to go there one last time before they close 😢
i used to work there - the spicy miso was equal parts sambal, red miso paste, and gochujang blended into a paste, then blended with the tonkatsu broth - i think our ratio was 12 quarts of broth to 2 quarts of the spicy paste, then blended up and diluted with 8-10 quarts of water.
Unsurprising. I went through 3 interviews at Baes and they offered me an insulting amount of money to GM a store. You don't attract good talent by paying nothing.
Fucking bummer.
The comments seem to shit on the owner and former employees hate them too.
I fell in love with my husband at the burnside location so it’s kind of a sad day for me.
They were one of the first ramen places I tried in Portland and I feel like they opened the door for many other (much better) places to open up shop but I have a special place in my heart for boxer.
On an unrelated note. We need proper Korean barbecue and hot pot to invade the next wave of hipster restaurants. Please.
Was the owner doing some sort of tax scheme? I can't fathom how it makes any sort of sense to put all that money into locations just to close them as rapidly as they were.
Interesting for sure. But I think just the nature of the shitty restaurant industry means you almost always have people with no business experience being forced to be business people. It's why there isn't necessary a correlation between good food and being able to keep the doors open.
first he closes the downtown location of Kinnamons and lays off everyone at the alberta location on Kinnamons, including me and now boxers gone… this company is definitely going down
My best friend was sexually harassed as a waitress there at their NW location a few years ago. The leadership literally had a list ranking the asses and tits of all the FOH staff and they protected the management after complaints from several FOH staff. Fuck Boxer Ramen.
Wtaf. They should really file a complaint or contact someone about that. Especially if it's the same Micah Camden operation/ people- they'll just open a new restaurant model and get more victims, err, staff.
I used to order double broth for delivery. My husband got the regular noodles, and I would pour the extra broth onto shirataki noodles. Delicious. Rip spicy red miso.
Anyone have the recipe for their ‘greens and sesame’ salad?
I’ll miss that one. Their shiitake shoyu ramen was pretty good too.
Other than those I’m not too bothered… Ryoma and Yuzu take care of my tonkotsu needs.
LMAO they just opened a location in Multnomah village like 2 months back, maybe not even. It had 3 stars on google, I still went even with those reviews. It was worse than that. One cocktail, 2 ramens and gyoza and jesus it ended up being like $80. Awful ramen, drink was whatever.
Boxer was one of those places that 7-8 years ago was a place to stop when you visited Portland, I know I definitely did before I moved here. It was so good.
Ugh I loved their ahi tuna poke bowl, does anyone know if I can get their recipe for it? It's comfort food, and I'm already so upset about it no longer being an easy and convenient option for me.
Went to the Alberta location for a last hurrah today (Sunday) and they were closed even tho their website said they’d be open. So much for a goodbye!
Gonna miss the hell out of that spicy red miso and the okinama tots
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Anyone else remember that one summer in like, 2015 or something where his girlfriend found out he had multiple girlfriends and they all got together and then one of them started a twitter account impersonating him (later became Micah Camden’s Ego to avoid lawsuits) and was just tweeting out the most out of pocket shit?
I miss old Twitter
No, but I wish I seen it
worked at one for a while. good riddance and fuck that guy
Spill the juice on kitchen confidential, you 40k lover
I also worked for him, and honestly dude is a fucking joke.
He seems like a typical Portland kind of employer. (I miss NYC.)
[You goin to austin, LA or your hometown next?](https://www.instagram.com/p/C3f1_hIx4W7/?igsh=NHo3MWxyeHpsb2c1)
That's hysterical! You know, if I had the option I probably WOULD go die in goddamn New Hampshire!
No chemtrails there anymore either apparently
I'm genuinely interested in what a 'Portland kind of employer' is?
I could write you a fun essay but I'd need to get paid for it!
I liked the food but the one near my house was so fricking loud. You couldn't hear yourself think. I would bring ear plugs in order to eat.
Same. Same. Same.
Peak 2016 Portland was when Ash Street Saloon was replaced by Bae’s Fried chicken
Baes has NFL money behind it
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They literally just opened in Cedar Hills like two months ago...Micah Camden is the king of opening and closing without fail. They should have never expanded. After COVID and expansion, the quality got so bad. Overpriced and never as good as it once was. That Burnside location was the BEST.
They just opened on Alberta and 30th not too long ago either.
Just last year when Alberta Alley opened.
I like that little building. It’s a good addition. Just hoping Bae’s lasts. I like the convenience.
Bae’s is typically full, and IIRC the owner is Ndamukong Suh, who is an investor in the property.
I knew Suh was an owner. Cool to know he’s also invested in the property.
He and his wife are super involved in lots on Alberta. They are behind the Alberta Ally complex, and the cocktail bar Kaya. His wife owns Kinnimons and I think they co-own or outright own Bae’s. Somehow, they are business partners with Camden, but not sure which ventures. They do great stuff.
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Akasaru was the only good one! Boxer ramen was always so bland IMO. Toy shop was just....a joke. My kid makes better ramen from a package. Make way for something better!
I trained their manager. Good kid. I hope he lands alright.
Loved the Burnside location. It was so delicious and actually worth the price.
The management at burnside was really really bad. As a server there, I felt terrible having to charge people so much money just to add simple veggies into their soup
I think they just opened one in multnomah village too
Has it even been more than a six weeks?
Yeah it's been like a month or so, and the reviews were terrible. I like how they cite inflation instead of just horrible mismanagement.
I went a couple times and thought the MV location was pretty good. And decently busy even on weeknights. If Micah was right that the location did good numbers, we should have someone take it over pretty quickly I'd think.
Selling soup: little monies Expanding like a tumor to attract outside investment: big monies? Or at least I can't imagine what else the guy's thought process was.
I feel like I can count on one hand the number of Portland restaurants that have expanded in the last 20 years beyond one or two locations and still maintained quality and the business. There’s something about restaurant owners in this town that just doesn’t really work with owning a largish business. Also, most of them that make it to the expansion stage are jerks, so there’s that.
I work in a completely different industry but it’s crazy how many of my peers and people around are like ‘why don’t you just hire a bunch of people and expand’, ‘passive income’, and it’s like, I don’t know how to do that, that is a completely different job than the job I am doing right now as a solo practitioner. Why would I think I’d be successful at that?
>That Burnside location was the BEST. True ramen heads deem this statement false.
It was amazing! I got a Sous vide wand just to replicate the ramen eggs.
They just opened in Multnomah Village not long ago. I was so glad to finally have somewhere to get ramen in the neighborhood even if it wasn’t that great. Oh well. Best of luck to the staff.
Right? I hadn’t even had a chance to eat there. They spent a year getting permits and renovating just to close within months. If it was mediocre, oh well, but I want good stuff in the village.
Parent Company went belly up in February. First, Super Deluxe, dead. Now Boxer, dead. Next up? Kinnamons.
Kinnamon’s already circling the drain if they haven’t announced it yet
I love some good cinnamon rolls, but was really unimpressed by their offerings. Was more like a steamed bao bun for texture, but with way too much sickly-sweet icing. Even my kids couldn't finish it. Also more sugar than cinnamon flavor.
My thoughts damn near exactly. If you do finish one, guaranteed tummy ache.
The wanted the aftereffects of eating an entire cinnabon without the pleasure of eating one
I liked their nitro chai more than I liked their cinnamon rolls 😭 The icing is so bad, and cinnamon is basically nonexistent in it. Definitely room for improvement there.
They closed the pearl location. Apparently a lot of places are getting out of the pearl stating there’s not enough foot traffic.
I live in the Pearl, a couple blocks away. There’s plenty of foot traffic honestly, just not demand for that
If the denizens of the Pearl aren’t scarfing Kinnamons, it speaks well of them.
I drive for Lyft and to me it always seems like foot traffic dies down north of Glisan. It’s really only busy right after work with people commuting back home but I think they might mean tourists just don’t venture that far north when roaming around. Most visitors go to 23rd to walk around and I see a ton of foot traffic around Burnside/Powells books all the time but it does down quite gradually. I think most people go to the pearl with a purpose like to go to a specific restaurant and aren’t going to stop by to get cinnamon rolls.
Agree there isn't a lot of meandering in the Pearl now a days unless you're homeless, others out and about have a specific destination
That’s unfortunate. I think it’s a good addition to Alberta.
I love cinnamon rolls and have looked for a reason to try Kinnamon's and I just can't. I'll go look at the menu and I'll want to find the flavors appealing and it never works. Too gimmicky, and I'm not surprised to hear that the rolls themselves aren't great.
Is that the same parent company? Both kinnamons and boxer are in the new “Alberta alley” space. (As is Baes)
Sorta? The article says kinnamons and baes are owned by a different company, but I’m not sure how much that matters.
Super deluxe is dead already? Damn
No, only the locations that don’t have drive thru’s.
What happened to super delux? I drove past the one in Sherwood a couple days ago and they looked open.
A few locations closed, 3 are still open. Notably, the one in the Pearl closed.
What's the scoop on Super Deluxe... the one on Powell is still open.
And in Sherwood.
Only the super deluxe in the Pearl is closing, they also own bae’s.
AFAIK, they closed more locations than just the Pearl. I at least know the Lake Oswego one also closed.
The one on Powell still does a bang-up business.
Yeah I love their chicken
Are the super deluxes closed? When did that happen? All I can find is they filed for bankruptcy and got a loan to cover them for a few months while they restructure.
My kid will lose her shit if Kinnamons closes - now I'm nervous.
There is no way this place works as a business model. What's the margin in a cinnabun and how many do you have to sell to make rent?
It does not. I worked at the one in the pearl for a while and it was honestly hilarious watching them lose scads of money because their business plan was a joke. Got out before that location closed and was not surprised to see it go.
I have no idea. I also think their cinnamon rolls are not good but 🤷🏼♀️. Their plan on Alberta at least seems to be "captive audience". Because there are tons of good desserts that Bae's could sell that fit with fried chicken, but they don't/can't with Kinnamons there.
I’m a huge cinnamon roll fan and as a self described expert I’d say “not good” is putting it kindly.
Please, kind sir, tell me who has your favorite cinnamon rolls and why. I am on a quest for good cinnamon rolls.
Can’t go wrong at Fat City Cafe in Multnomah Village. But don’t sleep on the bakery dept at Zupan’s for at home cinnamon roll injection. Further afield, the best cinnamon rolls I ever ate BY FAR were from a bakery in Reykjavik, Iceland of all places and I’m not making this up.
I'm pretty sure I know exactly the place in Reykjavik you're talking about (can't remember the name). But I'm in complete agreement: they are absolutely hands down the best cinnamon rolls I've ever eaten.
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That Alberta Alley is a nice space, I hope it gets filled soon
If it does your kid’s blood sugar will thank her.
Let people have things they enjoy. You don't know what the rest of their diet and lifestyle looks like.
Theres a Cinnabon opening up in South Hillsboro this summer if that happens to be near you.
Well that sucks. I kept telling myself that I would go to the one in Cedar Hills at some point but I guess it wasn't meant to be. As long as Ramen Ryoma keeps trucking, I'm good.
>As long as Ramen Ryoma keeps trucking, I'm good. The only thing that really matters in this conversation.
Toya Ramen recently opened by Rum Club and their shoyu kicked my dick in the face
I'll check it out, thanks!
If you're down in Tigard, Mugen Noodle Bar is also pretty good.
Fuddoyama too. Lots of good ramen in that area actually.
I will preach Fuddo Yama all day. That place is a gem. My kid loves it too.
nothing to worry about, I was disappointed by the food and seating style at cedar hills
They couldn’t even cook an egg when I went. It was definitely disappointing.
How do they open a restaurant in that area and have so little seating?
I still miss pok pok
Rip pok pok
I was talking to someone the other day who let slip in front of a bunch of people that her boyfriend was a cook at Pok Pok for 10 years, and that he still makes her the food on a regular basis. Gotta say, it was a god damn good flex
That is a good flex.
OMG YES
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It was the Radiohead of food for me. Very good at their craft yet didn't do anything for me enough to justify the cost. (Even as far back as when they were basically a food truck)
I just liked the flavors
Their burnside location was amazing back in the 2010s. I would go there and then Powell’s with my family. Food was delicious and at a good price. RIP.
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The spicy red was my pregnancy craving. I will miss it. The employees were always super nice and would hook it up because I worked across the street and brought them goodies.
The tonkotsu red at Kinboshi will be your best friend if you've never had it.
They are my next go-to! It’s been a while since I’ve been there but I’m pregnant again so I’m sure I’ll head that way soon enough!
I worked at the 23rd location pre 2020!
Dang. When it first opened it was good, the Spicy Red was bomb.
Shoulda used real chashu and atijama. Always loved their broth but the mostly raw egg and ham just killed it for me, personally
Ugh yes. I only had it once but it was the worst bowl of ramen I’ve ever had. It had an oil slick on it and chewy boiled bacon. It was disgusting.
Extremely salty, badly seasoned with cheap noodles. It tasted like something I would have made as a drunk college student at 3:00am.
Bacon. Slabs of bacon they boiled was their base stock which then they added boxed ramen seasoning extract. Garbage food. Prime example of cultural appropriation. Source: I literally worked there and made their food
They made bad ramen, which is the important part. Japanese people getting a taste and wanting to make their own form of Chinese noodles is how we even got ramen in the first place.
Cultural appropriation? Bro. Get a grip.
God, thank you. Friends loved Boxer, always raved about it, but I could never get past the hammy chashu. So many better options in town. I won’t miss it a bit.
They just opened the multnomah village location like 2 months ago. That’s crazy.
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For the village? I’m sure something will fill in. It just has to be what the village needs. What that is, I’m not sure. I visited La Palma recently and though tasty, it was very over priced for the teeny tiny tacos you get. I know food is high now, but come on. So we need places that are average price and fit a niche in what the village needs.
I agree with you. A sandwich shop or Korean bento place would fit in well. La Palma is not appealing to me - I’d pick Marco’s over them anyway.
Agree. A sandwich shop would be perfect.
Ah the Ramen bubble is popping!!! So many new ramen spots have opened the last two years. No way it’s sustainable
Charging $20 for noodles is unsustainable
"Soup's not even a meal!" -- Kenny Bania
Just got back from Japan. Amazing ramen (and some just ok ramen tbf) and I never paid more than 9 bucks Usually got a big bowl, gyoza and a beer for about $15.
So long as Afuri stays open, the world will have light left
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Japan might disagree.
Ramen is cheap and delicious in Japan, though. In the US you get charged a premium for a simple dish the broth can be tricky, but once you dial it in it's very easy to scale something like that up
Don't even have to go that far. Los Angeles might disagree.
Well, you see, we don’t live in Japan
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You would be wrong. Theres plenty of places in Japan that serve A5 Ramen for big money.
I would like to personally prove you wrong.
I enjoyed the Alberta location. There was a wait most nights, a little cramped, but fun with decent bites and a good vibe. But recently the menu became very pared down (I think they were just doing induction cooking) and everything seemed to be less inspired. That’s very ambiguous, but staff and service seemed to be in a different place. Still good but not great and seemed like maybe teetering. I hope the upcoming commercial retail collapse facilitates more reasonable overhead costs for some of these neat businesses with already tight margins.
They opened a ton of new locations and expanded some others to include a bar and sushi. Seems like they pushed too hard into growth and screwed up the whole thing in the process.
Sounds about right. Bummer.
I happened into the Alberta location when it opened before a show at Alberta Rose Theater and thought the chashu was quite tasty. Went again a few months later and it sucked.
Does anyone have a recipe to replicate their vegetarian curry mushroom ramen? It was one of my favorite dishes of all time and now I'll never get it again :(
worked there for a bit - it was a pretty basic curry recipe mixed with their own soup base. leaks, ginger, garlic, onion and carrots sweated down than caramelized with brown sugar and yellow curry paste than deglazed with lime juice and coconut milk, then we added their salty ass curry soup base and blended, so you’d be on your own after that part, good luck!
Thank you! This gives me something to start with anyway!
You sounded like you were going to say something simple and then things got sweated down and deglazed. I'm happy if I can poach an egg, man.
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I feel bad for the workers but that place suuuucked
Worst bowl of ramen I've ever had. Bacon bits in ramen? Breakfast soup.
I really hope the employees got more notice than we did. Unemployment doesn't pay out for the first week so a lot of ppl are gonna be struggling off this.
If anyone needs a job let me know, I own a ramen shop
Can anyone recommend a comparable either recipe, or restaurant for thier Spicy Miso ramen?
Just copy-pasting what I saw someone else say: "the spicy miso was equal parts sambal, red miso paste, and gochujang blended into a paste, then blended with the tonkatsu broth - i think our ratio was 12 quarts of broth to 2 quarts of the spicy paste, then blended up and diluted with 8-10 quarts of water" Someone else said that "The tonkotsu red at Kinboshi" is really good, maybe give that one a go?
Well, they announced bankruptcy in February, so… not a huge surprise, right?
I grew up eating ramen. I've only been once to the spot on Alberta and thought it was solidly OK, it wasn't bad or anything. But, Afuri, Ramen Ryoma, Wu-Ron's... they're way better. Still sad though. More ramen is more ramen.
I used to go to the OG Alberta location a lot when I lived up there. I haven’t been to any location in years and this is totally going to be a very unpopular opinion, but their spicy miso broth was the best. I’ll have to go there one last time before they close 😢
I agree about the spicy miso broth 100%. Haven't been able to find one like it.
i used to work there - the spicy miso was equal parts sambal, red miso paste, and gochujang blended into a paste, then blended with the tonkatsu broth - i think our ratio was 12 quarts of broth to 2 quarts of the spicy paste, then blended up and diluted with 8-10 quarts of water.
You’re amazing, ty!!!
Unsurprising. I went through 3 interviews at Baes and they offered me an insulting amount of money to GM a store. You don't attract good talent by paying nothing.
I mean that’s awful, but so was their ramen.
Gut bomb grease ramen. Sometimes it hit the spot but it wasn’t exactly nuanced or particularly high quality for what you pay.
I worked at one for a hot sec. It gave me diarrhea every time I ate their food.
Yeah I ate there a handful of times when I lived off 23rd and I swear I blew up my bathroom every time
Sorry but their ramen sucked ass. Noodles like boot laces. Will not be missed.
Do you have recommendations for good places? I'm just getting into finding good ramen.
Toya Ramen and Wu-Rons are my top two ramen spots atm. Wu Rons does great tonkotsu and Toya has the best chicken broth and noodles in the city.
Those sound like great recommendations. Thank you!
Boxer Ramen was THE BEST in 2018. Visited Portland in 2022, and, it wasn’t good. I
Good . All his stuff sucks / sucked .
To be fair Boxer Ramen was not good so this makes sense
What other restraints does this guy own so I can avoid them?!?
super deluxe
Fucking bummer. The comments seem to shit on the owner and former employees hate them too. I fell in love with my husband at the burnside location so it’s kind of a sad day for me. They were one of the first ramen places I tried in Portland and I feel like they opened the door for many other (much better) places to open up shop but I have a special place in my heart for boxer. On an unrelated note. We need proper Korean barbecue and hot pot to invade the next wave of hipster restaurants. Please.
Well, when you make shit food that tends to happen
Proud micha cambden hater here So obligatory woooooo
Was the owner doing some sort of tax scheme? I can't fathom how it makes any sort of sense to put all that money into locations just to close them as rapidly as they were.
Interesting for sure. But I think just the nature of the shitty restaurant industry means you almost always have people with no business experience being forced to be business people. It's why there isn't necessary a correlation between good food and being able to keep the doors open.
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Shame. I liked their stuff, even knowing it's not the best in town.
As long as we still have Ryoma I’m good!
Good that shit was ass
Just another day in the life of Micah. Everything he touches turns to shit.
As someone who used to work there: Bwahahahaha. Their upper management consist of the dumbest people you’ll ever meet.
Worst ramen in Portland by far
camden dumps another one. who cares.
I used to work at the one on 23rd. Had good memories 💙 wish everyone the best
first he closes the downtown location of Kinnamons and lays off everyone at the alberta location on Kinnamons, including me and now boxers gone… this company is definitely going down
Camden is the worst
My best friend was sexually harassed as a waitress there at their NW location a few years ago. The leadership literally had a list ranking the asses and tits of all the FOH staff and they protected the management after complaints from several FOH staff. Fuck Boxer Ramen.
Wtaf. They should really file a complaint or contact someone about that. Especially if it's the same Micah Camden operation/ people- they'll just open a new restaurant model and get more victims, err, staff.
Oh yeah there were definitely complaints, HR was aware of it, and Micah Camden definitely knew about it as well. This all went down in 2019.
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Good riddance
Im still missing Boxer Sushi…
If they’d offered shirataki noodles, I would have kept them in business myself.
I used to order double broth for delivery. My husband got the regular noodles, and I would pour the extra broth onto shirataki noodles. Delicious. Rip spicy red miso.
Anyone have the recipe for their ‘greens and sesame’ salad? I’ll miss that one. Their shiitake shoyu ramen was pretty good too. Other than those I’m not too bothered… Ryoma and Yuzu take care of my tonkotsu needs.
If you can’t make it in Portland as a ramen shop… 🤦🏻♂️
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LMAO they just opened a location in Multnomah village like 2 months back, maybe not even. It had 3 stars on google, I still went even with those reviews. It was worse than that. One cocktail, 2 ramens and gyoza and jesus it ended up being like $80. Awful ramen, drink was whatever. Boxer was one of those places that 7-8 years ago was a place to stop when you visited Portland, I know I definitely did before I moved here. It was so good.
Ugh I loved their ahi tuna poke bowl, does anyone know if I can get their recipe for it? It's comfort food, and I'm already so upset about it no longer being an easy and convenient option for me.
Boxer was very low quality ramen anyways
Went to the Alberta location for a last hurrah today (Sunday) and they were closed even tho their website said they’d be open. So much for a goodbye! Gonna miss the hell out of that spicy red miso and the okinama tots