Restaurants & Bars
Ganso Ramen Closes After 5 Years In Downtown Brooklyn
Patrons who dined at Ganso on its last day seasoned their noodles with salty tears.

DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN — One of the neighborhood’s favorite ramen restaurants has permanently shuttered its doors.
Ganso Ramen closed on May 31 after more than five years serving up kimchi buns, shoyo and “toothsome Tokyo noodles” at 25 Bond St., owners wrote on their website.
“A huge THANK YOU to all our customers, neighbors and friends who supported us for five and a half years,” the farewell missive reads.
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“We’re now working on a new and exciting restaurant in the space and will reopen this summer.”
Ganso was the last of three ramen eateries owned by restaurateur Harris Salat, who told Eater he would open a new (not Japanese food) restaurant in the Ganso space.
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Several faithful diners took to Instagram to post photos of the restaurant’s noodles, some of which were seasoned with salty tears.
Crying buckets of tears into our ramen at the last day of Ganso
A post shared by Allison (@roartea) on May 30, 2018 at 5:39pm PDT
Header photo courtesy of GoogleMaps/Dec. 2017
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