# Isshin Ramen & Boba, Los Angeles: a ramen restaurant in Los Angeles (2026 guide)

Source: Local AI Registry, https://localairegistry.com/biz/ca/los-angeles/isshin-ramen-and-boba-los-angeles-ca. Free to reuse with a link back.

By Steve Lee, founder and CEO of Local AI Registry. Fact-checked against 2 sources. Updated 2026-09-01. Owner review: not yet.

Canonical: https://localairegistry.com/biz/ca/los-angeles/isshin-ramen-and-boba-los-angeles-ca

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## In short

Isshin Ramen & Boba is a ramen restaurant in Los Angeles, CA. Its AI Score is 26 of 100, which is poor.

Every fact on this page carries one of three marks: Confirmed (from their website, Google Business Profile, review sites, licensing boards, or measured by Local AI Registry), Visitor submitted (added by a person, with a date and how they know), or AI guess (what AI engines like ChatGPT are saying, not confirmed by anyone). Every mark points to a reference at the end of this page.


## Key facts

| Fact | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Type | Ramen restaurant |
| Address | 6775 Santa Monica Blvd #7, Los Angeles, CA 90038, USA |
| Hours | Mon 11 AM to 12 AM · Closed Tue · Wed to Thu 11 AM to 12 AM · Fri to Sat 11 AM to 1 AM · Sun 2 PM to 1 AM |
| Phone | (323) 848-4797 |
| Owner | Nothing found |
| Rating | 4.6 across 126 reviews on Google |
| Known for | Nothing found |
| Prices | Nothing found |
| Quietest time | Sunday |
| Parking | Nothing found |
| Last verified | September 19, 2026, 11:01 AM |


## All the details

Every row is something the owner can add or correct. Each one is marked Confirmed, Visitor submitted or AI guess, with where it came from.

| Group | Fact | Value | Mark | Evidence |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Location info | Address | 6775 Santa Monica Blvd #7, Los Angeles, CA 90038, USA | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 31, 2026 |
| Location info | Description | 6775 Santa Monica Blvd #7, Los Angeles, CA 90038 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 31, 2026 |
| Location info | Hours | Mon 11:00 AM to 12:00 AM · Tue Closed · Wed to Thu 11:00 AM to 12:00 AM · Fri to Sat 11:00 AM to 1:00 AM · Sun 2:00 PM to 1:00 AM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 31, 2026 |
| Location info | Name | Isshin Ramen & Boba | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 31, 2026 |
| Location info | Phone | (323) 848-4797 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 31, 2026 |
| Hours | Monday | 11:00 AM to 12:00 AM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 31, 2026 |
| Hours | Tuesday | Closed | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 31, 2026 |
| Hours | Wednesday | 11:00 AM to 12:00 AM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 31, 2026 |
| Hours | Thursday | 11:00 AM to 12:00 AM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 31, 2026 |
| Hours | Friday | 11:00 AM to 1:00 AM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 31, 2026 |
| Hours | Saturday | 11:00 AM to 1:00 AM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 31, 2026 |
| Hours | Sunday | 2:00 PM to 1:00 AM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 31, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Boba tea | AI guess | Nothing found |
| Services | Service | Ramen | AI guess | Nothing found |
| Links | Website | https://www.isshin.us/ | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 31, 2026 |


## Services and prices

Services not read yet, back on Scan Day.


### Known for

Reviews not read yet, back on Scan Day.


## The team

Nothing found


## Visiting Isshin Ramen & Boba

Address: 6775 Santa Monica Blvd #7, Los Angeles, CA 90038, USA. Phone: (323) 848-4797. Hours: Mon 11 AM to 12 AM · Closed Tue · Wed to Thu 11 AM to 12 AM · Fri to Sat 11 AM to 1 AM · Sun 2 PM to 1 AM. (Confirmed, Google Business Profile, checked August 31, 2026 at 10:57 PM.)


### Location info from Google Business Profile

Business description, written by Isshin Ramen & Boba on its Google Business Profile: "6775 Santa Monica Blvd #7, Los Angeles, CA 90038"


### When to go

Quietest day: Sunday. Busiest day: Thursday. From the popular times on its Google listing.


### Parking and getting in

Nothing found


### Nearby

| Place | Type | Distance |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Hi Land Park | Restaurant | 1 min walk |
| Soregashi | Japanese restaurant | 1 min walk |
| SMSHD | Hamburger restaurant | 1 min walk |
| Super Smash | Restaurant | 1 min walk |
| Subway | Sandwich shop | 1 min walk |
| Everytable | Restaurant | 1 min walk |


## Reputation

4.6 average across 126 reviews: Google 25. (Confirmed, read August 31, 2026.)

While praised for its ramen and service, the restaurant faces criticism for safety issues and inconsistent food quality. (AI guess, from 126 reviews.)


### What people like

- Tonkotsu Ramen with chashu pork and egg
- Spicy Miso Ramen
- Fried tofu and boba drinks


### What people do not like

- Concerns about safety due to homeless individuals nearby
- Inconsistent ramen flavor and quality
- Long waits for food despite being the only customer


### Press

No press story about Isshin Ramen & Boba found yet.


### Awards

None named yet.


### Directories

Directory listings not read yet.


## Recent updates from Isshin Ramen & Boba

Isshin Ramen & Boba hasn't posted an update here yet.


## Questions people ask


### how much is a first visit around here

No answer yet


### bad experiences at Isshin Ramen & Boba, anyone?

No answer yet


### opening hours here, what are they these days?

No answer yet


### ordering here online, does that actually work?

No answer yet


### Booking a first visit here, what happens?

No answer yet


### people keep recommending Isshin Ramen & Boba, what for?

No answer yet


### walk ins, or is it booked solid

No answer yet


### do I need to book Isshin Ramen & Boba in Los Angeles or can I just turn up?

No answer yet


### torn between this place and Tatsu Ramen?

No answer yet


### best ramen restaurant in Los Angeles

No answer yet


### parking at Isshin Ramen & Boba, where does everyone put the car?

No answer yet


### what else is on Santa Monica around Isshin Ramen & Boba?

No answer yet


### quietest day to hit Isshin Ramen & Boba?

No answer yet


### worth it or not, what do the regulars say

No answer yet


### cheaper than Isshin Ramen & Boba in Los Angeles without it being sketchy?

No answer yet


### last update from here was when?

No answer yet


### anyone been on a Tuesday, were they trading

No answer yet


## What AI gets wrong about Isshin Ramen & Boba

We ask ChatGPT about Isshin Ramen & Boba. These are the answers that disagree with the record.

ChatGPT, read by Local AI Registry on Aug 31, 2026.

No capture has disagreed with the record yet.


## The AI Score: 26 of 100

The AI Score measures how likely AI engines are to recommend a business, and how accurately. Los Angeles ramen restaurants run 24 to 68. Fair starts at 45, good at 65. Isshin Ramen & Boba scores 26, below the Los Angeles average of 33. The same method scores every business on the registry.

| Signal | Weight | Score | What it measures | Isshin Ramen & Boba |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Retrieval grounding | 26 | 0 | Whether you appear in the ranked results AI retrieves and cites: AI-Overview citations, organic top-10 for your money queries, and the Bing index ChatGPT leans on. | Poor |
| Off-property attestation | 20 | 41 | Volume and consistency of what others say about you: YouTube mentions, branded web mentions, third-party “best-of” lists. The cause of retrievability. | Poor |
| AI visibility | 14 | 0 | Whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and AI Overviews name you, and whether they name you for the right service. | Nobody at all was recommended in the 1 answer we hold, so there is nothing to score. |
| Reviews & response | 12 | 81 | The star average is only one input. We also read volume, velocity, the specificity of review language, and response cadence. Specific reviews are what AI quotes verbatim. | Good |
| Backlink & citation authority | 8 | 52 | Domain authority and editorial quality of the sources that attest to you. | Fair |
| Google Business Profile | 8 | 90 | Required and recommended fields; update cadence. The listing AI pulls from first. | Good |
| Speed & mobile | 7 | 64 | Core Web Vitals at the 75th percentile, on a real phone. | Fair |
| Content freshness & schema | 5 | 34 | Crawl recency, intent alignment, valid JSON-LD, canonicals. | Poor |

Full method: https://localairegistry.com/methodology


## How AI decides what to tell you about a ramen restaurant

When you ask ChatGPT, Gemini or Google about a local business, the AI doesn't visit it. It reads what's already written about it: the business's website, its Google Business Profile, review sites, news stories and directories like this one. Then it repeats what those sources agree on.

That's why AI gets small facts wrong. If Yelp says a place is open Mondays and the website says it isn't, the AI has to pick one. The table above shows the answers that disagree with the record today.

The more sources agree, and the more specific they are, the more confidently AI recommends a business. A review that names who helped and what they did tells an AI far more than one that says "great place."


## How to choose a ramen restaurant in California, with or without AI

A few checks take ten minutes and tell you more than any rating.

- Check that the hours and phone number match on Google, Yelp and the business's own website. Mismatches are how people end up at a locked door.
- Read reviews that name a person and what they did. Vague praise is easy to fake.
- Look for recent reviews and recent posts. A page nobody has touched in a year may not match the business today.
- Ask for the price before you go, and ask what it includes.
- Where the work needs a license, ask whose license it is and look it up with California.


## How to read the marks on this page

- Confirmed (solid circle): from a known source. The business website, its Google Business Profile, review sites like Yelp, Healthgrades and RealSelf, a licensing board, or measured by Local AI Registry.
- Visitor submitted (hollow circle): added or corrected by a person, with the date and how they know, like a phone call or a visit.
- AI guess (hollow triangle): what AI engines are saying right now. Nobody has confirmed it.


## About the author

Steve Lee is the founder and CEO of Local AI Registry and sets its editorial standards. He is a former Google executive in Search and a former Microsoft executive, with more than 20 years in digital: search, local discovery, and how people find businesses online. He is based in Irvine.

- Expertise: search at Google and Microsoft, AI search, answer engine optimization, generative engine optimization, local SEO, structured data and entity mapping.
- Industry: medical aesthetics, injectables, med spa operations and marketing.
- Disclosure: Local AI Registry sells services to business owners, including Isshin Ramen & Boba if it claims this page. That does not change what this page says. Every fact carries its source.


## Entity map

Every person, place, organization and treatment named on this page, with a stable ID and a public reference. The JSON-LD below connects them to each other.

| Entity | Type | ID on this page | Same as | Relationship to Isshin Ramen & Boba |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Isshin Ramen & Boba | LocalBusiness | #business | https://www.isshin.us/ | Subject of this page |
| Los Angeles, California | City | #city | Nothing found | City Isshin Ramen & Boba is in |
| Local AI Registry | Organization | #publisher | https://localairegistry.com | Publisher of this page |
| Steve Lee | Person | #author | https://localairegistry.com/team | Author of this page |


## Topical map

Where this page sits in the registry. It's one profile among the ramen restaurants in Los Angeles, linked to the lists and towns around it.


### Lists

- Best ramen restaurants in Los Angeles: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/los-angeles/ramen-restaurant
- Best businesses in Los Angeles: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/los-angeles


### Nearby

- /san-francisco: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-francisco
- /san-jose: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-jose
- /san-diego: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-diego
- /irvine: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/irvine
- /fresno: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/fresno
- /palo-alto: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/palo-alto


### Every list

- Every leaderboard in California: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca


## Frequently asked questions


### What is AI search optimization for local business?

Getting a business named when a neighbor asks ChatGPT, Gemini, or Perplexity for a recommendation. Some call it AI SEO, some call it generative engine optimization. Traditional SEO fights for ten blue links; this fights for the one answer an assistant says out loud. The AI Score on this page measures the eight signals that drive it.


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### How does this page help a business get recommended by AI?

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### Who writes the answers here?

Registry AI writes the first answer under every question, from the Record and the public sources named beneath it. Neighbors write the rest under pseudonyms. A registered owner can reply as the business, and their reply says so.


### I own Isshin Ramen & Boba. How do I fix something or rank higher?

Register the page. It is free, it takes about five minutes, and it lets you correct the Record and reply as the business. Nothing on this page is for sale, so the only thing that moves the score is the work.


## References


### Sources cited

- [1] Google Business Profile, https://www.google.com/maps/place/?q=place_id:ChIJTV_dANW_woARvJpOn8zCO_s (accessed Aug 31, 2026)
- [2] AI engine output: ChatGPT, read by Local AI Registry on Aug 31, 2026, https://localairegistry.com/methodology (accessed Sep 19, 2026)