Gentaro Soba

I guess this place is pretty good for being a mall soba shop. Personally for me the broth is too salty compared to other soba eateries I have had. I purchased the tempura soba dish. The tempura on the side is okay, there wasn’t much crunch to it when I bought it. Their complementary waters are cute and come with a lid unlike some other places

From a seldom Unilocaler… this place was too disgusting and overpriced not to Unilocal them 1 star… meat looked suspect, tasted horrible, stay away

Good and very quick, especially the poke dishes (soba, bowls). I got sick a couple of times but still went back!

My first time trying this place today and I got the kake soba with beef. The broth that goes with the soba was delicious and the beef was good enough. The noodles however were over cooked. But overall I liked the dish.
The reason for the low rating is because it is overpriced. For what you get for nearly $ 10, I felt ripped off. No wonder there is no line at this place during the lunch hour rush.

I had the cold Soba with fried tempura. It was good. I went during the weekday around 6pm so I got the happy hour special for $ 7 it came with a drink. It’s not the best Japanese I’ve ever had but hey it is in a food court so what can you expect.

Alright mixed feelings about this place. During rush hour you can always find this line empty, for a reason too. Def believe they over price their food.
Prime location, great taste, but not $ 11 worthy. Picked up the Tuna Poke Bowl with Brown rice. Love the Tuna, bold flavor and good size cubes. Seaweed flakes and onions worked well together.
The brown rice was a bit undercooked, harder than it should be. Also, very shy with the brown rice.
Service was quick, but because line was empty.

If you want to beat the lunch lines, I advise getting here around 11:30am — this goes for any eatery at the Taste Food Court at FIGat7TH. I had the Ten Zaru Soba — cold soba with various vegetables, shrimp and vegetable tempura, and a side of spicy dipping sauce. I found it to be worth trying. The price was $ 9.50 — which is quite a lot, but really you are paying for the convenience.
My experience with the service has been the positive. The employee was really nice and patient as I was deciding what to order. I had to wait a few minutes for my order, but that is not terrible, considering how busy eateries get around lunchtime in downtown. I would come here again.

Had both hot and cold soba here. It’s a hit or miss depending on the order and the day.
Pro: located in a food court and generally have less of a line than the others. You get a lot of food for the price compared to the other food court places. The beef cold noodle is quite good and there’s a lot of beef in it.
Con: the chicken was inedible. It can and a long time to get your order on some days (think my record is 15 min when there’s no line whatsoever…).

Okay, I like the food but the service today was horrendous. I went up to get my order and the girl first gave me the wrong order and when I asked her about my order, she dismissed me and said she was calling someone else’s order. When I finally got my order it was missing the salad. I went up to tell her and she didn’t apologize just plopped on some salad on top and handed it back to me. I had to ask for dressing. Seriously, don’t work in customer service if you clearly don’t like people.

A bit pricey but it’s not bad, especially when I crave for Japanese food that’s near me. Located in the food court at Fig 7.
I usually get their hot kake soba (pour sauce into a bowl of soba) with a side of beef. Service is a hit or miss. Sometimes you will get your food right away or you might wait 10 – 15 minutes.

Super-​nice staff. Super-​mediocre noodles. Flavoring consists of the multiple packets of chili-​powder you receive, and green onions that surprisingly do little to help. It’s inexpensive, though, so that’s a relief. I’ll save my noodle consumption for when I have time to DASH to Little Tokyo.

I usually come here when looking for a warm, comforting, inexpensive bowl of soba noodles or Japanese curry and it always works. The noodle broth has a great, somewhat complex flavor and is topped with tempura flakes. The curry is rich and the chicken and vegetables are nice and slow-​made.
I’d recommend this place for a quick, much-​better-​than-​average food court lunch.

Let me start by saying that in general I have liked this place.
But there was a huge «customer losing his mind» issue here on Wednesday October 28, 2015.
What the previous review, by Akira, completely fails to mention that he was shrieking at everyone in the restaruant. No one needed to be that loud unless one was in a concert.
You yelled at my associates telling them they were incompetent, you yelled at my boss telling her she was a terrible person, you yelled at me telling me I should not be working.
Literally you scared the customers more than anyone else, shouting at the top of your lungs: ” Make this womans order NOWWWW!!!“
Your complaing about how I slam dishes but we dont even have dishes anymore, we serve all of our food in paper containers– now how do you slam a paper container? how do you slam food? –_​_​–
And Im sorry for touching everything, next time I make food I’ll just be like professor Xavier and make the food levitate into the containers. FYI I had washed my hands proir to any food making, and Im pretty sure in every restaruant the cooks make food with their washed hands.
Never in my 19 years of living had anyone treated me the way Akira had.
There is crime abundant in our city, people are getting killed or kidnapped.
I had done nothing to you to deserve the traumatic chastizing I got that day– you
SCREAMED at me telling me I should not be working– and did I say anything, no. Maybe the city is getting to you. Maybe you forgot what it was like to be a broke college student lving off of cup noodles. Who knows why you lost your shit.
You have given me the worst indescribable perpetutating anxiety and its been almost a week.
If your going to use Unilocal as a place to vent and disrespect me personally and my associates than I should have a say as well.

This is a fast food eatery serving Japanese noodles in the Taste Food Court at Fig&7^th. They have a limited menu but what they do have is pretty good. They sell different types of Japanese noodle and rice dishes and the one I went for was the Ten Zaru Soba.
Soba, for those who don’t know, are Japanese noodles made out of buckwheat and is touted as having many health benefits.
You have the option of ordering the soba noodles either hot or cold. I really enjoy cold soba noodles so that’s what I had. It comes garnished with thin strips of black seaweed, sesame seed and green onions. The meal comes with a side of the soba dipping sauce and you can request it be made spicy if you want which is what I ordered. The main topping is a side of tempura shrimp, sweet potato, and broccoli. The cost is $ 9 for this which is a little on the high side but not ridiculous considering the location.
Since the tempura wasn’t freshly fried, it was a little bit soggy since it was probably sitting for a bit before being served but all in all, my dinner tasted pretty good. I particularly enjoyed the cold soba noodles, it is really satisfying to me and I have made this at home before because it’s so good. I just wish there were more of it as the serving isn’t as big as they make it to look like in their advertisement pictures which show a fairly large sized bowl teeming with a clump of noodles.
They also serve their meals in styrofoam containers even though all the pictures show them in nice dish ware so presentation is sorely missing as you are to assemble everything yourself. Although, I do understand the reasoning given it is a food court.
They have happy hour where this set is $ 7 on Monday through Friday from 4:00 pm to closing time which is 9:00 pm which makes it a better value for this meal. The meal overall wasn’t bad so I wouldn’t mind coming back to try some other things in the future.

Oishii!!! The cold noodle soba (zaru soba) was so refreshing, light, and yummy! I love it. And the design here is so clean. Love the packaging. Price is not bad either. The cold noodles were $ 6 and the hot noodles (kaké soba) was $ 6.25. Sometimes that is all I need for lunch. I am a fan.

If you need your salt fix, here’s a one stop shop. Excellent tempura, hot soba was mediocre, they have coke in a bottle so that’s a winner. Chicken soba was good. Fast food — this is as good as it comes
Service ⁵⁄₅
Food ³⁄₅
Ambience ³⁄₅
Food court!

If you want something on the healthy side, this is your spot. I ordered the beef and veggies only. They are not really set up to do a beef and veggies combo because the meat comes with rice or noodles.
They went out of their way and added some extra veggies but it’s not the same as a traditional veggie bowl. I did like the beef and it was a small enough portion that it didn’t put me in a food coma.

Food: ³⁄₅
Ambience: ³⁄₅ — it IS in a food court…
Overall: ³⁄₅
I have to say, Gentaro Soba is definitely one of the better food places I’ve seen in a food court. But then again, it IS still in a food court, and that obviously affects my Ambience rating.
The soba here is better than expected, but it is simply okay. I got the Zaru soba, and nothing really stood out to me. Both the soup and the dipping sauce were honestly quite bland. The soba itself was passable.
I would say this is a good place for grabbing lunch in a nice and clean food court. This goes really without saying, but if you really want good soba, go somewhere else.

Out of three Japanese noodles of ramen, udon, and soba, my go to is soba. Soba is a lot healthier than most noodles which is made of buckwheat. Gentaro Soba is located at the 7^th/​Fig food court. I usually has the shortest line around lunch time. So it’s quick and easy.
I usually get my soba hot (kake) or cold (zaru). Both decent depending on the weather. The spicy tuna bowl is a little weird in my opinion. It looks like it was chopped up in a blender with other things. It’s not bad but I wonder what’s inside. The tempura is a must skip. Skimpy pieces for $ 4 and not fresh out of the fryer. The beef bowl isn’t bad. Just average. Yuzu lemonade is refreshing. I wish I could drink this everyday.
It’s fast food here and service behind the register is just okay. There are some times the cashier has a brain fart. For example, blanking out and not giving me change and then dropping the change. I worry about the future of America. Probably a USC student’s first job ever.
This place is okay and decently priced compared to the other restaurants in this food court.

OOO Gentaro Soba is definitely one of the best in the Fig and 7^th complex. The line is long upon arrival but I bet you that your food will be in your hands in five minutes or less. Service is speedy.
If you are in for a healthy lunch this is your place. Delve into a beef bowl which is actual beef, not Yoshinoya style. Bowls come with your choice of white and brown rice. I come here for their spicy tuna bowl, which is filling but doesn’t leave me feeling bloated. I really want to try everything on this menu because everything they served out looked so very delicious. Noodles, you say? Yes, with tempura, you say? Fare will run you only about $ 8 – 9. Pretty reasonable by DTLA standards for very good healthy food.
The tuna dish was served on brown rice with a very large heap of spicy tuna atop the rice. The bowl was garnished with seaweed which compliments the dishes nicely. They offer soy sauce but you might have to ask for the wasabi. Chopsticks are always a nice addition to any meal. If you order to eat in they serve your meal in some cute little dishes. Co-​workers raved about how we liked the little pots.
Today, I had the shrimp tempura soba noodle. It was sOoo good I wish I had a spoon to slurp up all the soup, and seriously considered drinking from the bowl. The tempura shrimp was nice and crisp, not overcooked. Make sure to ask for condiments if you want them as they are usually not offered.
They also offer cold soba bowls, but I have not yet musture up my adventurous side to try a cold plate. Maybe in the future…