SobaKoh
“In the winter, I recommend the hot soft shell crab soba and the eggpland/duck hot soba.”
“If you go around 5PM or 6PM for dinner they have an early bird dinner special.”
“I've personally haven't tried Soba Totto but I have tried Sobaya and I personally favor this one over Sobaya.”
SobaKoh
Takes Reservations: Yes
Take-out: Yes
Accepts Credit Cards: Yes
Bike Parking: Yes
Waiter Service: Yes
PokéStop Nearby: Yes
Price range.
$$ Price range $11-30
8 reviews
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Small, casual dining. Nice selection of soba noodles. Got there on Sat night around 730 – about 30 min wait but appears you can make a reservation
ordered the Uni sashami and it was soo good- so creamy and fresh. a bit pricey but hey it's Uni!
got the duck soba- I like the textures of the freshly handmade noodles and the broth but the duck was overcooked- it was very dry. I also had the tempura and it was crispy but not seasoned well.
the green tea ice cream was very good- not too sweet and had just enough matcha in it.
Came here on a hot summer day, wanting to eat something nutritious and cold. Felt in the mood for cold soba.
We walked in on a Tuesday night and we were seated immediately. Great interior.
Great service.
We walked in early enough to get the early bird dinner special, 5 courses for $25 (didn't write down, but it's a good deal).
Starts off with a Salad. It was a water cress Salad, initially, it doesn't sound good, but they made it work.
Egg Custard: It comes in a small bowl. It's kind of a unique texture, but you eat it and kind of think it tastes and feels weird, but then you want another bite. It was good.
Cold Soba: with shrimp, eel, and vegetable tempura: It comes with a dipping sauce and then a broth to drink with after the soba is done. I liked the shrimp tempura the best.
There is a side dish with this, but I am not sure if they forgot or if it was the side of radishes. May differ every night?
Added a salmon roe (ikura) don. It was not our favorite. We didn't finish it. I wouldn't get it again, but it's not my palate.
The vanilla ice cream at the end, they scoop it in a ball!
Overall, I liked the place. I'd go back again. Service was good.
When I was looking up this place on Yelp, I thought it was the same as Soba-Ya but turns out they are 2 different restaurants. This place is a lot smaller than Soba-Ya. I thought that they took reservations, so I made one. But when I showed up, they had no idea that I had made a reservation. Either way, I got a table without waiting.
This place isn't huge, and if you sit near the door during winter, it would be a little cold every time someone opens and closes the door. You can sit at a table or at the counter.
Depending on whether you are in the room for rice or soba, they have both, and even combinations of both. For soba, you can have it hot or cold. I decided to go for the bento lunch special, so I could get both rice and soba. It also came with tempura and a scoop of ice cream. The soba was really good, it was cooked al dente. The tempura was extremely crispy. For my rice I had sea eel on top- you can also opt to get crab meat on top instead.
Overall, a great japanese place to eat soba.
Despite some negative reviews around, I must say I really liked this place! And even more so when I found that they combined two of my favorite foods (soba and uni!!) in the same dish! Basically it was a portion of uni, salmon roe, seaweed and wasabi served on a bed of soba noodles, and the sauce came in a little pot on the side. I went here for lunch, and I thought the portion size was perfect. In my opinion, this is definitely one of the few spots around lower Manhattan that serves authentic Jap food at a reasonable price point. To be clear, I haven't been to Sobaya (which a lot of people are comparing this place to), so I can't say which one is better value for money etc. But service was wonderful here, and you got to see the soba noodles being made!
I made the effort to stop by for lunch because I wanted something cold but filling and other Yelpers seemed to have had a positive experience. However, their prices are quite lofty…even for a restaurant in NYC.
I was planning on ordering the uni ikura cold soba noodles, but after seeing the price ($23), I decided against it and went with the eel don lunch set instead, which was still quite pricy ($18). The noodles were as I expected – served cold and with a sauce that I could dip or drizzle my noodles with. However, the don was nothing more than two pieces of eel tempura and a spicy pepper tempura served over rice and drizzled with soy sauce.
The soba noodles were fresh, and I could tell that they were handmade, but they were too undercooked for my liking, and there were a bunch of broken pieces towards the end that I could not pick up with my chopsticks. Although the eel tempura was freshly deep fried, I was also not impressed by the 'don', which I expected to have some sort of egg component. It was literally just tempura atop white rice with soy sauce, which really doesn't require much effort to assemble.
Overall, it was a super underwhelming meal, and definitely not worth the money I paid. $18 for a bunch of carbs and two pieces of eel is preposterous, even for the city! I'm really glad that I didn't take anyone else to this restaurant with me, or I would have felt awful. The only truly positive thing about this place is the friendly service. SobaKoh, you can have my money this time, but I'm taking my patronage elsewhere from here on out!
Portion size is way too small and a little overpriced compared to Soba-Ya on 9th St, which is slightly more conveniently-located. I got the salmon spring appetizer, which is basically salmon sashimi in a ponzu sauce – very nondescript. The cold ikura soba I got was also not that great – the noodles were unappetizingly pale and not as al dente as I would have liked. I still felt hungry after finishing my bowl and that dish cost $21. I believe the large portion at Soba Ya costs $21 – and you can go for a small or medium too.
Next time I'm having a soba craving, I'm going to Soba-Ya.
My first time having soba noodles, which was a good experience. The noodles are handmade which was served in a bamboo rack and dipped in broth to your liking also served with various fish cakes and veggies in a bento box. The orders seems kinda of small but it is very filling and the flavors are great. Quite pricey in my opinion and has limited seating.
Service was wonderful.