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7 Best noodle Restaurants in Los Angeles

The best 7 restaurants for noodle in Los Angeles — curated by TastyPals editors.

The best noodle restaurants in Los Angeles are JINYA Ramen Bar - Topanga Westfield, REDWHITE BONELESS RAMEN, Philippe The Original, and more. Start with JINYA Ramen Bar - Topanga Westfield if you want the strongest overall first pick.

By Carlos Mendez•7 ranked picks•Published July 15, 2026•Updated July 15, 2026
Methodology•Editorial team
JINYA Ramen Bar - Topanga WestfieldREDWHITE BONELESS RAMENPhilippe The Original
7 Best noodle Restaurants in Los Angeles
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Top picks at a glance

#1JINYA Ramen Bar - Topanga WestfieldJapanese • Los Angeles • value#2REDWHITE BONELESS RAMENJapanese • Los Angeles • value#3Philippe The OriginalChinese • Chinatown • value

Who this guide is for

This guide covers the highest-rated restaurants for noodle in Los Angeles, sorted by Google rating and editorial judgment. Picks span Los Angeles and Chinatown.

Quick picks

JINYA Ramen Bar - Topanga Westfield
Japanese • Los Angeles
Mall ramen is an easy target, and JINYA Ramen Bar at Westfield Topanga invites the skepticism.
REDWHITE BONELESS RAMEN
Japanese • Los Angeles
Most DTLA ramen draws a line out the door at lunch, then goes dark by nine.
Philippe The Original
Chinese • Chinatown
Philippe The Original is one of the better-known chinese spots in Chinatown in Los Angeles, which makes it a practical place to start.
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Editorial details
Published: July 15, 2026
Last updated: July 15, 2026

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  1. 1. JINYA Ramen Bar - Topanga WestfieldView →
  2. 2. REDWHITE BONELESS RAMENView →
  3. 3. Philippe The OriginalView →
  4. 4. MajordomoView →
  5. 5. Yang Chow RestaurantView →
  6. 6. Foo-Chow RestaurantView →
  7. 7. Full House SeafoodView →

How the restaurants compare

Editorial restaurant image stand-in for JINYA Ramen Bar - Topanga Westfield
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JINYA Ramen Bar - Topanga Westfield
Los Angeles • Japanese
9.9/10
TastyPals Score
Price
value
Best for
noodles
Mood
Casual
Editorial restaurant image stand-in for REDWHITE BONELESS RAMEN
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REDWHITE BONELESS RAMEN
Los Angeles • Japanese
9.9/10
TastyPals Score
Price
value
Best for
noodles
Mood
Casual
Editorial restaurant image stand-in for Philippe The Original
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Philippe The Original
Chinatown • Chinese
8.8/10
TastyPals Score
4.6
Google
Price
value
Best for
Chinatown crawl
Mood
Chinatown
Editorial restaurant image stand-in for Majordomo
Google
Majordomo
Chinatown • Chinese
8.7/10
TastyPals Score
4.6
Google
Price
value
Best for
Chinatown crawl
Mood
Chinatown

How we chose

We looked for restaurants that feel like a strong fit for the guide topic, not just the most obvious names in the city. The shortlist favors rooms with clear mood, dependable pacing, and enough distinction to help someone decide faster. Read our full methodology →

Room tone

Lighting, pace, and general energy all need to support the reason someone clicked this guide.

Food fit

We favored restaurants that feel best suited for the moment, not just restaurants with broad reputation.

Useful range

The final list tries to give readers enough variation in neighborhood, price, and style to compare real options.

7 ranked picks

JINYA Ramen Bar - Topanga Westfield — Mall ramen is an easy target, and JINYA Ramen Bar at Westfield Topanga invites the skepticism. What pushes back against it is the chain's documented process: founder Tomo Takahashi built the brand around broths that run for twenty hours — pork bones, chicken, bonito, kombu — a production commitment that a shopping-center address does nothing to alter. The Topanga location also carries more physical presence than the setting might suggest, with 131 seats and a proper outdoor patio that separates it meaningfully from its food-court neighbors. The menu's reputation leans on a few dishes worth understanding before you go. The Creamy Tonkotsu Ramen is the standard entry point and, based on consistent customer feedback, is known for a broth that reads as layered rather than flatly rich — the long simmer is the stated reason. Tan Tan Men takes a sesame-and-chile direction, and diners regularly describe it as focused and warming rather than diffuse. The Birria Ramen is the more deliberate swing: a Mexican-inflected bowl that leans into crossover flavors and reportedly draws a crowd precisely because it doesn't try to hide what it is. Whether that fits your evening is a mood question, not a quality one. The Miso Glazed Eggplant rounds out the options as a vegetable dish that, unlike many in its category, appears on the menu with enough frequency and positive mention to suggest it functions as a genuine choice rather than a concession. For a price-one restaurant operating inside one of the San Fernando Valley's busier malls, JINYA is doing more considered work than the location typically signals. Lunch hours fill quickly by most accounts; a weekday arrival before the midday rush is the practical move if you want both a seat and reasonable pacing from the kitchen. View restaurant →
REDWHITE BONELESS RAMEN — Most DTLA ramen draws a line out the door at lunch, then goes dark by nine. REDWHITE Boneless Ramen plays a longer game, holding court until midnight (1 a.m. on weekends) in a dim, bar-leaning room a few blocks from The Broad and Grand Central Market. The "boneless" in the name isn't a gimmick: this is a plant-forward kitchen, and Chef Kei, who's been at this fifteen-plus years, builds broth the slow way, simmering vegetables and aromatics into something with real umami backbone rather than leaning on tonkotsu's easy fat. The Spicy Miso has earned a genuine following, and rightly so. The Smoky Truffle and Yuzu Sesame round out a lineup that takes vegetarian ramen seriously instead of treating it as an afterthought. There's a Miso Avocado roll for the table, too. I couldn't confirm pricing ahead of time, so check before you go. But for a late-night, meat-optional bowl in a neighborhood that empties out after the concert crowd leaves, this is a quietly useful room. View restaurant →

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Majordomo — David Chang's Los Angeles outpost lands in Chinatown with a concept that is structurally, almost philosophically, a group-dining proposition. The menu is built around large-format preparations — the kind that require a table of six or eight to make sense of, both economically and ceremonially. For two people, the math and the spirit of the place work against you. For a gathered crowd, the room reportedly clicks into something genuinely celebratory, the kind of dinner where the occasion itself feels like the point rather than a pretext. The menu centers on two anchoring large-format dishes that diners consistently cite as the reasons to commit to the group format. A whole steamed fish with ginger and scallion — a preparation rooted in the southern Chinese canon — is known for arriving with enough tableside presence to organize the meal around it, demanding that everyone eat together rather than drift into individual plates. The crispy whole pig is the other centerpiece: reportedly rendered to produce crackling skin without sacrificing the interior, and carved at the table with the kind of ceremony that justifies the advance planning. Smaller sharing plates round out the pacing, understood by regulars as bridges between the large-format arrivals rather than the meal's foundation. Practically speaking, Majordomo rewards intentional planning more than most rooms in Los Angeles. The large-format dishes require advance ordering, the group size shapes what the dinner can actually be, and Chinatown's parking and foot-traffic dynamics are worth factoring in on weekend evenings. If your group is assembled and committed, the reservation is worth pursuing on its own terms — this is one of the more purposefully designed group-dinner experiences the city has to offer at this price level. View restaurant →

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