Endorphins Dessert Cafe in Oxford

One of the best places to eat Japanese food.

A great evening celebrating our daughter, Isabella's 17th birthday. As always the food was sensational but what made it was the service we received from Joao. We had a friend join us, who was new to Sticks and Joao did his absolute best to accommodate her needs. He regularly checked if we were ok and everything was good. Wow! We all left very impressed. Sticks you have a very valuable member of your team and we hope to be served by Joao again. Thank you for making our daughters birthday great!

OK Japanese restaurant, firstly it's cash only, not sure if it's always been like this or it's a temporary situation but it's weird they have this restriction. It's nicely decorated inside and they have some native Japanese staff working there. The menu is varied, they do ramen, bento boxes, bbq, etc.. Ramen is OK, it's not Japanese standard but no where is outside of Japan in my opinion. It's better than shoryu, I feels it's better then ramen culture. The Tonkotsu ramen was OK, the noodles were medium thickness, not hakata style thin noodles. They were firm and chewy, soup was creamy but lacked depth. Bamboo was OK, egg was Ok in texture, but the yolk wasn't slightly runny which is how I like it, and it lacked flavour. The chashu was OK, it was seared to make it crispy, at least it was thin cut unlike ramen culture where it was too thick. The spicy duck ramen was not as good as Tonkotsu ramen, the duck was roast duck but it was sliced like Cantonese roast duck but it lacked flavour, but was not dry or chewy. The spiciness comes from the chilli sauce condiment that you can find on the table, it's not too spicy but it's nothing special. The good thing is that the food is served quickly, not like shoyu where it feels like they're ubering the food from another restaurant.

Taberu was closed so decided to give this sushi place a try! An absolute hidden gem this is by far my most favourite sushi store in oxford, flavours are great salmon and avacado is definitely fresher than tabarus and it is more authentic compared to tabura as the rice is literal sushi rice. Whereas taberu has small portions made really unathetically tasting like a fake japanese sushi. Absolutely recommend every penny worth it in sushi corner! Customer service is very great too!

Good ramen in Oxford, always packed and always a queue outside. Edit: really enjoyed the food, perhaps best ramen as well as best value in Oxford