Reviews for Sabu in Lakeland, FL
First visit to Sabu Ramen and The Joinery. I enjoyed an absolutely delicious bowl of crispy pork belly ramen. The broth was so... flavorful and everything was ????% good. Read more
Good fresh ramen the broth is seasoned well noodles are not pasty and the chicken was cooked well. I also ordered the side of... Karage chicken which was uniquely flavored but good as well Read more
Food was good, service was kind of douchey they have no patience which is interesting considering its foreign exotic food to... most central floridians. The chicken broth i ordered for my kid had WAY TOO MUCH bonita flakes! it was like a sardine soup so itwas inedible even for me and i love sardines. Ill come back for the buns but not the ramen. Read more
Pretty darn good. I get the chicken based tonkatsu and spicy chicken. Great bone broth flavor. The bun is the star. I've been... three times in one month. Love bone broth. Get rice noodles as a gluten alternative. I've never had the wheat noodles. Read more
I gave this place 2 stars because it gave me ramen and fried chicken, the staff was friendly, and service was fast. However,... here are my qualms with the food. 1) The soup base was not hot, just lukewarm. Ramen should be piping hot when served. The shoyu(soy sauce) base was lacking in umami (depth of flavor). 2) The chashuu was diced instead of sliced, resulting in drier, toughermeat. 3) Instead of serving the egg sliced in half, as is typical presentation, it was whole, and still had a chunk of eggshellattached to it. 4) The karaage (fried chicken) was not authentic at all. I do not know what it was coated in, what sauces wereon it, or how it was prepared (it was also oddly tough, instead of moist). It tasted good, but not like Japanese food. The foodphotographs well, but in all of my years eating ramen in the US and Japan, this was my least favorite ramen. Never again. Read more
You know a place must be pretty decent if there?s always a crazy long line of people waiting to order, pay and devour. Sabu is... one of the handful of stalls in the industrial and fun Joinery of Lakeland. They do the ramen, and visitors seem to never getenough of the ramen. I?m so serious, this place is always crazy busy. Because of this I usually don?t even try to order here,because I?d rather not wait forever when most of the other stalls aren?t half as busy. So when it actually had no line one daythat I came to yee old Joinery, I jumped on the opportunity. I got one of the spicy ramen dishes that I am now forgetting thename of. I really enjoyed it, and I mean it?s hard not to enjoy any ramen bowl. I wouldn?t say it was out of this world, but I?dhave it again happily. We got the bao buns too, of course. Can?t ever turn those sweet babies down. Let me now get to what Iwould drive to the Joinery solely to splurge on: the drinks!! They have boba, yes, whoop whoop! I got the cocoa puffs cerealmilk boba and it was ridiculous. Ridiculously easy to sip down so quick I barely savored it. It basically tasted like chocolatemilk with soft, chewy boba that was cooked pretty well. Also, my friend got the iced matcha and that was by far the best matchadrink I?ve ever tried. I think they mixed it with some sort of sweet cream, because it wasn?t just the plain earthy taste ofmatcha but it was much sweeter, and I just can?t even believe how good it was. So yes, I?d come back to not even bother theramen or bao buns, but to get a foo-foo drink from Sabu. But the ramen certainly doesn?t hurt either. Read more
I?m late on my review because sometimes I think it?s best to just be more vigilant in the process of coming to a well informed... decision. First impressions had me initially, but consistency keeps me coming back. Anytime I need a bowl of comfort, Sabu Ramenis my go to tried and true! Read more
Best ramen place in Lakeland! I usually order Shoyu ramen and my husband Tonkotsu. They are both very good but I definitely... prefer mine. I also prefer the fatty pork belly while my husband likes the crispy one. They overload their ramen with chives butit's OK since those can be totally or partially removed. Everyone is so nice when it comes to service. You will encounter a bitof a line to order most of the time and the food might take a second to come out, but it's never too long and it's also expectedwhen in a busy place like that. I would definitely recommend them to anybody that wants to enjoy a good bowl of ramen. Read more