A friend of mine recommended the place to us. Love the way they take it seriously with the food they provide. I might have picked the wrong item from their big menu and might have needed some instructions to eat the noodles but still enjoyed it very much. Love the sashimi chef special. Fresh fishes to start the meal. Definitely will visit it again if I am in the neighborhood.
The best is def the special mini lunch set! You can have one noodle (soba or udon choose cold or hot) and a mini rice don
That is the one you must try!
My favorite place for lunch in NYC!
Love love love it!!! The best Japanese food in town!!!
Best of vacation dinners so far � Soba shrimp sushi appetizer my fav!
Delicious & authentic Japanese in a neighborhood full of it; some of the best soups in NYC or anywhere.
1st time but not my last. The food and service was amazing. A definite must!!!
Marcel Nadal Michelman
+5
Amazing food! Really recommend to anyone willing to try authentic Japanese soba!
I got Tenzaru which is soba with tempura. The tempura was crunchy and delicious.
Get the hot duck Soba dish and don't miss the Mochi ice cream.
ニューヨークでかなり本格的な蕎麦を堪能出来ます。
まさに日本にある美味い蕎麦屋であり、NYCとは思えない！（≧∇≦）蕎麦前も充実しています。本当の日本食を知っているグルメなニューヨーカーが毎晩いっぱいで、賑わっています。予約はできないようですが、少し待つと入れます。
ya gotta love lunch at sobaya !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
They were so gracious about my dietary restrictions and allowed me to make substitutions. They do not have much vegetarian option. The hot soups/broths are made with bonito (fish). I ended up getting a cold noodle dish to avoid the soup and got salad dressings instead of dipping sauces. I also got vegetable tempura, which was great. They have cold and hot soba options, both are great.
Went for lunch around 1230 on a weekday, no queues. Ordered the lunch set of hot soba noodles with tempura - came with three prawn tempuras and a pepper tempura - nicely fried, not greasy. The soba broth was flavorful, full of umami , can taste those dried bonito flakes in it. Make sure you add those chili flakes into your soba for an extra kick !
Good value for money lunch sets were around $19-21. The mochi and yuzu sherbet ice cream was also delicious - mochi had nice chew to it dusted with green tea powder, came with red bean and whipped cream. Yuzu sherbet tasted refreshing and citrusy, with an almost stretchy texture.
Highly recommend this place!
Ordered the special meal set. You have a choice of eels on rice, salmon or tempura with either udon or soba (cold or hot). The meal came very quickly and it was delicious. Afterward, we ordered the appetizer, the house-made green tea creme bruise. It has a very good texture and good taste. By the way, the soba is also made in-house. The ambiance of the restaurant is nice. I highly recommend this place.
I was craving for soba that day and I came for a traditional soba and it tasted so good! The salmon rice is good too but as you can expect their salmon is not so much for you to be filled
Cold soba is a refreshing summer treat, and the Aburi Sake Toro, that seared salmon belly, was the highlight of our dinner, tantalizing our taste buds with its melt-in-your-mouth goodness!!
Authentic Japanese soba & udon restaurant
40.72964 -73.98785 Among a ton of Japanese restaurants in East Village, Soba-ya looks like and really is an ordate Japanese buckwheat soba & udon restaurant, exempt not sitting on the floor, tatami mats and leaving your shoes at the door. No other competing Asian cuisines on the menu. Co-owner and mini-mogul, Bon Yagi, prefers authenticity to flash in his restaurants. No QR-codes in this Michelin Bibi Gourmand restaurant. With loud Americans inside, soundproofing is lacking.
As appetiser, we ordered in June 2023 Dashimaki Tamago (Japanese-style egg omelette, made by rolling thin layer upon thin layer of egg) and miso soup ($5). The soup arrived, but not the egg omelette, before our Yasal udon soup with mixed vegetables and mushrooms ($22) arrived. Lost in translation? The thick udon broth was hearty and flavourful. Well prepared and enjoyable.
Soba-ya serves very good udon, but the service could be better. Recommended.
Happy to stop by here for lunch! As a frequent visitor to Japan, I really recommend their buckwheat noodles!✨ ⚠️Although some little thing about other dishes that could be improved but overall worth to visit..!
Noodles were really really outstanding, chewy but not soggy! And a ince I ordered Ten Zaru, the set came with shrimps tempura. Each of them was huge, crispy, and juicy inside..! AMAZING!
For appetizer, I got sliced duck. It was tasty although slightly expensive.
Last, matcha crème brûlée as dessert. I was a little bit sad because the burnt sugar didn’t go over all surface (as you may see in the photo, it only covered the middle part.) The main cream part was good, a nice twist using matcha to change this European dessert.
💕Highly recommend to people who would like to have a meal alone. The space is cozy and chill even for single visitors. Would like to visit again for rice dishes..!
It's a lovely japanese soba shop. We ordered the soba with tempura and duck soba. The tempura was surprisingly fresh and good. We are visiting from Toronto and we think that there's no such soba shop like that in Toronto! It's definitely a must-visit spot!
The broth is so tasty, and I loved the noodles. I didn’t think the hot shrimp tempura soba was that good because I wished there was more flavor for the tempura. Maybe cold is the move. It was quite expensive for dinner, but I think I would come back to try a cold soba for lunch. The restaurant also got quite loud at dinner time and made it hard to hear who I was talking to.
Ordered both the soba and salmon sashimi. The soba noodles were cooked well and did not stick to each other as I ate. But, I was ignored by one of the servers, who seemed to avoid wanting to take my order when I raised my hand and also for when I wanted to ask for the check to pay, despite the fact that he was serving all the other customers sitting in the area I sat in. He made eye contact and simply looked away. Though, it may have been because it was busy when I came :/
Delicious food to eat during a cold day. The atmosphere feels very calm and enjoyable. The service felt a little slower (maybe due to the holidays and understaffing). Would definitely come back in the future.
So happy we came to try their Housemade soba! Even though it wasn't the best weather for cold soba, I loved my tempura zaru. I knew they were legit when they gave me real wasabi to mix into the tsuyu dipping sauce. The other hot soba dishes we got were also delicious. Service was fast and friendly. No wait even on Sat night. Prices are reasonable. I'd definitely come back.
I wanted to come here for quite a long time and finally, I did. I really enjoyed their dishes and it was more than I expected.
One of my favorite soba place in the city. Been there couple time before pandemic, love the hot soba. They also have some cold dishes and sashimi options as appetizer. Love the fried tofu and tempura soba. They don’t have cocktails, but the great sake collection. Yuzu sake is the best!
Fantastic restaurant in the East Village! The place is very pretty and the food is VERY WELL. The prices are quite reasonable considering the location! The kanban curry was awesome🍜
The food is delicious, I continue to come back here often. I am always very impressed by the freshness of the ingredients and the quality of the rice bowls in particular. The tuna avocado don is my favorite go to pick, its perfect. I have also gotten the lunch special (small soba and small rice bowl) twice now and it has been excellent both times! Both the indoor and outdoor seating are lovely. The service is fine, sometimes it can be a little rushed. It is always somewhat busy but I have never had a problem being seated. The dessert places across the street are also excellent and a perfect place to go afterward!
The sobaya is a Japanese restaurant, it is clean and has sanitizer on every table. The food is good and I ordered a udon, some duck and some dessert.
The udon bowl is good, the texture is good and I like it.
The restroom is clean. The waiter is ok. The food is delicious. The restaurant is quite comfortable and the lunch menu seems to be economic, there are lunch specials. There are also some Japanese newspaper at the entrance.
Just come here and try it for yourself. It’s too authentically good to describe 😜 even the bathroom is legit with its Toto 😆
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