I love ramen, and friends have been encouraging me to go with them to various places around Calgary. This was a great experience. Fast and friendly service, the server was willing to give advice, and my tonkatsu ramen was great. That pickled red ginger was a bit daring for me since I never like pickled ginger in anything, but it’s standard to the dishes so I tried it and wow, it adds a nice occasional zing that never overpowered the rest of the dish. The egg was cooked perfectly, and the appetisers were delicious. Menyayi is worth trying a few tines for ramen lovers.
This little spot in Kensington reminds me exactly of when I went to Tokyo, Japan. From the bowls you're food is served in to the soft Japanese music playing in the background. Menyati serves a small but simple menu to please anyone who walks in. There main dishes consist of a variety of udon, ramen, and donburi. I ordered the beef udon and my bf ordered the chicken teriyaki don (comes with miso soup), and the serving we're enough for you to finish and feel full. The large windows and natural light gives a more open concept and a calm and relaxing environment to the small restaurant. The staff were very kind and polite, always available to serve us or answer a question we had. The restaurant was also very clean and food was well priced for the portion and quality.
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Food, price, atmosphere, and service
I had a chance to visit Menyatai multiple times and honestly I can say say it has one of the best Ramen and service in Calgary. The food was always excellent every time I have been and the service was very friendly yet very efficient. I would not hesitate to recommend this place to anyone! It’s a great place for a date night or even a casual night with your friends!
I would recommend this place for they delicious curry udon, tempura udon, grilled eel don. Curry broth is rich if you prefer, tempura was crispy and not oily, big pieces of delicious grilled eel and comes with miso soup. Beef udon was a bit too sweet to me. But if you are a big eater, get ready that udon noodle portion is quite small. I liked seaweed salad, too. Spinach salad was a bit too salty as they put too much topping seasoning in my opinion. Home made sesame cheese cake is smooth and suits Asian people’s taste as it’s not as sweet as western desert. For ramen, I still prefer Muku, better broth, slightly better noodle texture.
one of my personal favorites in Calgary, the chashu here is more fatty ,much like pork belly. Although as default you only get one piece of chashu,its quite big in comparison to some other places. The tonkotsu is rich,milky and flavourful. I find the spicy tonkotsu the best. The egg isn't marinated ,and not soft boiled most of the times ,but I prefer the broth at menyatai over other ramen places. Their chashu don is really good too !
Best beef yakiudon i've ever had (portion is a bit little to me)
Should hire more servers for dinner time, we wait for almost 10mins to get the order but the food came out quickly. Will be back for another try
What a lovely place we discovered today. The food was delicious,and reasonably priced. I will definitely be telling my friends!
The quality used to be better, but I feel like it has gone down. Not bad overall, I wouldn’t mind coming here again.
A simple Japanese restaurant, small and well priced menu. My favorite is the gyoza, beef udon noodles, shrimp tempura, and beef Teri don. I have been going here for over a year!
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Nice to place to have a ramen. Appetizer are so good we tried seaweed, shumai, tempura and oysters. Decent serving for the price, love the mickey shape bowl for kids:). Meat on soup were bit small per order so I'll recommend on meat add-ons. We'll come back for sure.
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