Gifu Ramen Bar
The Chun Cafe founders' ramen bar, named for the chef's hometown, cooking the city's most serious broth.
Amsterdam has plenty of places that serve ramen and very few that are about ramen; Gifu is the second kind. The founders of Chun Cafe built it around head chef Ryoji Miyachi and named it after his hometown in Japan, and the broth is where all that intention lands: deep, layered tonkotsu that diners keep calling the best they've had outside Japan, topped classically with chashu and a half-boiled egg, or extravagantly with wagyu that dissolves into it. Around the bowls runs a tight izakaya card, crispy teba kara, chicken lollipops, hamachi that arrives looking like it came from a much more expensive room. Speaking of the room: warm wood, low light, moody in the Japanese way rather than the Instagram way. The menu is short and not cheap for noodles, which is the one gripe in an otherwise startling 4.7 Google average across six hundred reviews. Book the dining room online or take your chances at the walk-in bar seats; weekend afternoons it does a ramen-only lunch.
Tonkotsu with the half-boiled egg first visit, teba kara on the side; the wagyu bowl is the upgrade path.
What to order
Full menu- Tonkotsu ramen
The benchmark bowl: deep pork broth, chashu, half-boiled egg
- Wagyu ramen
The luxury version, beef melting into a creamy broth
- Teba kara
Crispy Japanese chicken wings, the izakaya-side essential
- Hamachi
Yellowtail crudo fresher than the postcode requires
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