Super Kyuramen Opens Izakaya Flagship in Las Vegas Chinatown

Two Shops, Same Founder, Different Jobs

Kyuramen was founded in New York in 2014 by Gary Lin, and the pitch from day one was volume: 18-hour Kyushu-style pork broth, shio and shoyu builds, a hexagon honeycomb seating design that photographs well, and a plan to scale past 100 locations worldwide. The Henderson shop at 10170 S. Eastern Ave., Suite 130, which opened in December 2025 as Nevada’s first Kyuramen, is the version built for that scale — tonkotsu Tokyo shoyu ramen with chashu, a soft-boiled egg, corn, bamboo shoots, wakame, scallions and nori, a “super” bowl with four proteins, and a yin-yang bowl that splits two broths down the middle of one dish. It shares its building with TBaar, the boba and fruit-tea chain, and that pairing tells you this location is built around turnover: grab a bowl, grab a drink next door, move on. Hours are 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily, and the phone number for that location is (702) 268-7960.

Super Kyuramen is a different build entirely. The company’s own description of the concept calls it an evolution beyond ramen and appetizers into something closer to a full izakaya, and the build-out backs that up: a yokocho-inspired alleyway lit with lanterns leading into a series of themed rooms, each one styled after a different piece of Japanese food culture — a ramen shop, an izakaya, a manga bar. There’s a wish tree where guests hang wooden plaques with notes on them, a signature Kyuramen touch that shows up at the original shops as well as here, and the kind of detail that either charms you or feels like set dressing depending on how busy the room is when you walk through it. The honeycomb seating carries over from the original brand too, but the warm wood and noren curtains push the room toward something you’d settle into for a second round rather than turn over for the next party.

Nine Ramen, Nine Sushi, Six Cocktails

The structure is deliberate: nine ramen, nine sushi rolls, six cocktails. Kyuramen’s core dishes carry over — tonkotsu ramen, omurice — but the new additions are where the concept earns its “flagship” label. There’s a Super Kyuramen Dragon Roll, a Kaiten Sushi Carousel (conveyor-belt sushi, which Chinatown diners already know from a few other spots nearby), premium sashimi, a Toro Uni Crispy Monaka, and something called the Kyuramen Street Cup. That’s a wide spread for one kitchen to run well — ramen broth that needs 18 hours of attention and sushi that needs a cold, fast hand are two different disciplines, and pulling both off under one roof during a Saturday dinner rush is the actual test here, not the lantern alley.

The bar side is a full program: sake, cold beer, six signature cocktails, and a complete mocktail list for anyone not drinking. That last part matters more in Vegas than people give it credit for, since Spring Mountain Road pulls a heavy weekend crowd, and a real non-alcoholic menu instead of a Sprite-and-lime afterthought is worth having.

I’ll go eat both bowls before I tell you which broth wins. What I’ll say now is that the menu math — nine ramen and nine sushi rolls next to a tight six-cocktail list — reads like a kitchen trying to prove it can do range, not just ramen at scale. That’s a harder promise to keep than a good bowl of tonkotsu.

Chinatown Keeps Absorbing Everything

Spring Mountain Road has been swallowing furniture stores and strip-mall retail for restaurant space for years now, and the old Jubilee Furniture showroom is a big building, big enough that Super Kyuramen could build multiple themed rooms inside it instead of one dining room. That’s not a small thing in a corridor where most restaurant footprints are converted retail units a fraction of that size. Landing next to Chubby Cattle BBQ puts it in a stretch of Chinatown that’s already dense with hot pot, Sichuan, and Taiwanese spots, so Super Kyuramen is betting its izakaya format and full bar carve out a different crowd than the ramen-only regulars hitting the neighbors.

The Henderson location, by contrast, sits in a shopping center on Eastern Avenue paired with a boba shop, which is a neighborhood lunch-and-dinner play, not a destination. Two locations, two very different jobs for the same brand name, which is worth knowing if you're deciding which one to drive to.

Henderson or Spring Mountain Road

If you want the fast, reliable version of the Kyuramen broth without the theatrics, Henderson at 10170 S. Eastern Ave. pairs easily with a boba run next door. If you want the full build — sushi carousel, sake and cocktails, the lantern alleyway and the themed rooms — that’s Spring Mountain Road. Both run 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily, so the call is about format, not hours. Neither location has posted per-person pricing that I can confirm, so don’t take a number from me until I’ve had a receipt in hand. I’ll be back with an actual review once I've sat in that honeycomb booth and eaten the Toro Uni Crispy Monaka myself.