Chaplin's Restaurant

Chaplin's runs on a strange, winning premise: a ramen bar wallpapered with the actual Charlie Chaplin, in a room loud enough that you feel the crowd before you taste anything. The kitchen doesn't treat that as a gimmick to hide behind. The Chaplin A.S.S. ramen has real heat and real depth, the kind of bowl worth ordering for itself and not for the theme on the walls.

The cocktail list holds its own against the food instead of trailing it — drinks built with absinthe and rye, yuzu vodka and strawberry, mixed with the same care as the broth. That balance, good ramen and good drinks taken equally seriously, is rarer than it should be and it's the reason regulars keep coming back for the noise as much as the food.

Service can lag when the room fills, and it fills often. That's the one real knock, and it's a minor one against everything else working. This isn't a place for a quiet dinner — go in knowing that, order well, and it delivers.

A Michelin Selected nod in 2025 confirms what the room already knows. Chaplin's earned its crowd.