A source tells Swamplot that the Samurai Noodle restaurant that’s scheduled to open in the former Sprint spot in the Durham Shopping Center facing the Katy Fwy. feeder road (at center in the photo above) is in fact a first out-of-state venture for the acclaimed 3-location Seattle ramen shop of the same name. The I-10-facing spot in the strip center at 1801 Durham Dr. is wedged between Golden Hunan restaurant and the SNAP Spay-Neuter and Animal Wellness Clinic (not to be confused, we earnestly hope, with SNAP Kitchen). In Seattle, Samurai Noodle offers non-pork broth options for non-traditionalists, and allows customers to specify their preferred level of noodle firmness.
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- Experience Traditional Japanese Ramen [Samurai Noodle]
Photos: Swamplot inbox
By the Katy Feeder
I seem to recall that a couple of Swamplotters had recently complained about coverage of some fairly sizable quantity of construction in The Woodlands, because it wasn’t in the Inner Loop and consequently didn’t deserve coverage.
I hold this up as a counterpoint, that the Inner Loop already has an outsized amount of coverage and that Swamplot tends to be pretty well balanced. …tends to be.
while technically that is Cottage Grove, I-10 cutting through the middle of the neighborhood pretty much destined that area to be “Rice Military”
Another ramen story, Swamplot? Why so much attention on ramen while udon gets nothing?? Udon is part of Houston, too, you know.
@Membag: Udon know what you’re talking about.
This restaurant location seems snakebit. Nothing stays there longer than a few months. Nothing about the shopping center says “a quality restaurant is here”.
Screw the Woodlands…that exxon campus is a waste…they decided to be lame and put it out in the burbs so they dont deserve good attention…same with the Energy corridor
How do you know it’s part of the chain? They have 3 locations in Seattle and now one in Houston. Doesn’t fit.
This gets its own post, while the new Wingzone in Pearland is confined to a mere headline?!!
JB3: What’s a “pearland” ?
I finally went to Samurai Noodle. I hate to admit it, but it was very good. Mrs. Bag liked it, too.