Openings

Slurping Turtle to Open Monday, Probably

Doors will open soon.
Doors will open soon.

The announced date has slid a couple of times, as restaurant openings do, and at least one instance of tweeted media exasperation has come of that, but Slurping Turtle, Takashi Yagihashi’s affordably-priced ramen and noodle-oriented place downtown on Hubbard Street should open Monday. We say affordable by the somewhat inflated standards of downtown lunchtime dining, but still, with bowls of noodles going for $13 or $14 and bincho, grilled skewers, going for $4 or $5, it’s at least in the ballpark of nearby chef-driven lunch spots such as Xoco, rather than expense account lunching. Lack of well-crafted ramen has long been one of the city’s unexplained deficiencies, and if anyone can lift skewers above the yakitori-mall-food-court level and make it comparable in quality as a cuisine as sushi and sashimi locally, as it is in other cities, Michelin-starred Takashi is the one our hopes are pinned on.

Slurping Turtle to Open Monday, Probably