# Tatsu Ramen, Los Angeles: a ramen restaurant in Los Angeles (2026 guide) Source: Local AI Registry, https://localairegistry.com/biz/ca/los-angeles/tatsu-ramen-los-angeles-ca. Free to reuse with a link back. By Steve Lee, founder and CEO of Local AI Registry. Fact-checked against 9 sources. Updated 2026-10-18. Owner review: not yet. Canonical: https://localairegistry.com/biz/ca/los-angeles/tatsu-ramen-los-angeles-ca ## Photos - ![Photo 1](https://localairegistry.com/api/photo?src=https%3A%2F%2Fseoaesthetic-assets.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com%2Fphotos%2Fcmti8dd9c04b0ye6br44c1qyh%2F0.jpg) - ![Photo 2](https://localairegistry.com/api/photo?src=https%3A%2F%2Fseoaesthetic-assets.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com%2Fphotos%2Fcmti8dd9c04b0ye6br44c1qyh%2F1.png) - ![Photo 3](https://localairegistry.com/api/photo?src=https%3A%2F%2Fseoaesthetic-assets.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com%2Fphotos%2Fcmti8dd9c04b0ye6br44c1qyh%2F2.jpg) - ![Photo 4](https://localairegistry.com/api/photo?src=https%3A%2F%2Fseoaesthetic-assets.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com%2Fphotos%2Fcmti8dd9c04b0ye6br44c1qyh%2F3.jpg) - ![Photo 5](https://localairegistry.com/api/photo?src=https%3A%2F%2Fseoaesthetic-assets.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com%2Fphotos%2Fcmti8dd9c04b0ye6br44c1qyh%2F4.jpg) ## In short Tatsu Ramen is a ramen restaurant in Los Angeles, CA. Its AI Score is 68 of 100, which is good. 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 Gemini and 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 | 427 S Hewitt St, Los Angeles, CA 90013, USA | | Hours | Mon to Thu 11 AM to 1 AM · Fri to Sat 11 AM to 2 AM · Sun 11 AM to 1 AM | | Phone | (213) 278-0002 | | Owner | Nothing found | | Rating | 4.8 across 713 reviews on Google | | Known for | Tatsu Ramen stands out for its prime location and late-night service, making it a favorite for locals seeking delicious ramen at any hour. | | Prices | Nothing found | | Quietest time | Tuesday | | Parking | Nothing found | | Last verified | October 18, 2026, 12:50 PM | ## 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 | 427 S Hewitt St, Los Angeles, CA 90013, USA | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 31, 2026 | | Location info | Description | Bright, modern destination for Japanese noodle soups with customized ingredients. | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 31, 2026 | | Location info | Hours | Mon to Thu 11:00 AM to 1:00 AM · Fri to Sat 11:00 AM to 2:00 AM · Sun 11:00 AM to 1:00 AM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 31, 2026 | | Location info | Name | Tatsu Ramen | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 31, 2026 | | Location info | Phone | (213) 278-0002 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 31, 2026 | | Hours | Monday | 11:00 AM to 1:00 AM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 31, 2026 | | Hours | Tuesday | 11:00 AM to 1:00 AM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 31, 2026 | | Hours | Wednesday | 11:00 AM to 1:00 AM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 31, 2026 | | Hours | Thursday | 11:00 AM to 1:00 AM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 31, 2026 | | Hours | Friday | 11:00 AM to 2:00 AM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 31, 2026 | | Hours | Saturday | 11:00 AM to 2:00 AM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 31, 2026 | | Hours | Sunday | 11:00 AM to 1:00 AM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 31, 2026 | | Services | Service | Brothless | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 | | Services | Service | Brothless ramen | AI guess | Nothing found | | Services | Service | Chicken | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 | | Services | Service | Chicken ramen | AI guess | Nothing found | | Services | Service | Customized ingredients | AI guess | Nothing found | | Services | Service | Late night dining | AI guess | Nothing found | | Services | Service | Open late nightly | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 | | Services | Service | Order | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 | | Services | Service | Ramen | AI guess | Nothing found | | Services | Service | Tonkotsu | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 | | Services | Service | Tonkotsu ramen | AI guess | Nothing found | | Services | Service | Vegan | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 | | Services | Service | Vegan ramen | AI guess | Nothing found | | Links | Facebook | https://www.facebook.com/tatsuramen | Confirmed | Business website, checked Oct 18, 2026 | | Links | Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/tatsuramen | Confirmed | Business website, checked Oct 18, 2026 | | Links | Website | https://tatsuramen.com/tatsu-ramen-arts-district-dtla/ | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 31, 2026 | | Links | Yelp | https://www.yelp.com/biz/tatsu-ramen-los-angeles | Confirmed | Business website, checked Oct 18, 2026 | ## Services and prices These are the 6 services Tatsu Ramen offers, with the price where we have one and where it came from. | Service | Price | Price mark | Price evidence | Service mark | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Chicken | | | | Confirmed | | Open late nightly | | | | Confirmed | | Order | | | | Confirmed | | Tonkotsu | | | | Confirmed | | Vegan | | | | Confirmed | | Brothless | | | | Confirmed | ### Known for Tatsu Ramen stands out for its prime location and late-night service, making it a favorite for locals seeking delicious ramen at any hour. ## The team Nothing found ## Visiting Tatsu Ramen Address: 427 S Hewitt St, Los Angeles, CA 90013, USA. Phone: (213) 278-0002. Hours: Mon to Thu 11 AM to 1 AM · Fri to Sat 11 AM to 2 AM · Sun 11 AM to 1 AM. (Confirmed, Google Business Profile, checked August 31, 2026 at 10:32 PM.) ### Location info from Google Business Profile Business description, written by Tatsu Ramen on its Google Business Profile: "Bright, modern destination for Japanese noodle soups with customized ingredients." ### When to go Quietest day: Tuesday. Busiest day: Saturday. From the popular times on its Google listing. ### Parking and getting in Nothing found ### Nearby | Place | Type | Distance | | --- | --- | --- | | Bean and Leaf Department | Coffee shop | 1 min walk | | Sampa | Filipino restaurant | 1 min walk | | Redemption of the angels mural | Tourist attraction | 1 min walk | | 405 S Hewitt St Parking | Parking lot | 1 min walk | | 4th/Merrick | Bus stop | 1 min walk | | Urth Caffe | Coffee shop | 2 min walk | ## Reputation 4.8 average across 713 reviews: Google 25. (Confirmed, read August 31, 2026.) Tatsu Ramen is noted for its bold flavors but struggles with consistency in service and portion sizes. (AI guess, from 713 reviews.) ### What people like - Bold ramen - Cheeky ramen - Fast service ### What people do not like - Long waits for food - Small portion sizes - Order mix-ups ### Press No press story about Tatsu Ramen found yet. ### Awards None named yet. ### Directories Directory listings not read yet. ## Recent updates from Tatsu Ramen Tatsu Ramen hasn't posted an update here yet. ## Questions people ask ### anywhere on Hewitt to sit while I wait No answer yet ### anything I should sort out before a first visit at Tatsu Ramen? No answer yet ### On a budget in Los Angeles, is this place the one? No answer yet ### points or member pricing at Tatsu Ramen, worth signing up? No answer yet ### Are the hours on Google right for this place? No answer yet ### the good stuff about Tatsu Ramen, what is it? No answer yet ### is there parking at Tatsu Ramen or is it street only? No answer yet ### Busiest day at Tatsu Ramen, anyone know? No answer yet ### picking between the two, is Tatsu Ramen the safer bet? No answer yet ### best ramen restaurant in Los Angeles No answer yet ### does this place deliver or is it pickup only? No answer yet ### walk in at Tatsu Ramen in Los Angeles, or is it appointment only? No answer yet ### people keep recommending Tatsu Ramen, what for? No answer yet ### how much is a first visit around here No answer yet ### bad experiences here, anyone? No answer yet ### Tatsu Ramen, any chance to get a table this week? No answer yet ### where does this place post updates No answer yet ## What AI gets wrong about Tatsu Ramen We ask Gemini and ChatGPT about Tatsu Ramen. These are the answers that disagree with the record. ChatGPT and Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Oct 18, 2026. No capture has disagreed with the record yet. ## The AI Score: 68 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. Tatsu Ramen scores 68, above the Los Angeles average of 33. The same method scores every business on the registry. | Signal | Weight | Score | What it measures | Tatsu Ramen | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Retrieval grounding | 26 | 100 | 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. | Good | | 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 | 38 | Whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and AI Overviews name you, and whether they name you for the right service. | Named in 6 of 16 answers that recommended anyone. 5 more named nobody, which is not a loss and is not scored. | | Reviews & response | 12 | 97 | 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 | 69 | Domain authority and editorial quality of the sources that attest to you. | Good | | Google Business Profile | 8 | 90 | Required and recommended fields; update cadence. The listing AI pulls from first. | Good | | Speed & mobile | 7 | 72 | Core Web Vitals at the 75th percentile, on a real phone. | Good | | Content freshness & schema | 5 | 82 | Crawl recency, intent alignment, valid JSON-LD, canonicals. | Good | 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 Tatsu Ramen 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 Tatsu Ramen | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Tatsu Ramen | LocalBusiness | #business | https://tatsuramen.com/tatsu-ramen-arts-district-dtla/ | Subject of this page | | Los Angeles, California | City | #city | Nothing found | City Tatsu Ramen 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. ### What is Local AI Registry? The public record of how AI sees local business. We score every business we list by one published method, we keep the questions people ask about it in one place, and we never sell rank. Looking up any business here is free. ### How does this page help a business get recommended by AI? Assistants read public pages before they answer. This one states what the business does, what people ask about it, and what the Record answers, in one place a machine can read. Correcting what is wrong here changes what an assistant repeats next. ### 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 Tatsu Ramen. 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:ChIJ22oFkSvHwoARKo2mJEYEu2o (accessed Aug 31, 2026) - [2] tatsuramen.com, https://www.tatsuramen.com/ramen/brothless (accessed Sep 19, 2026) - [3] tatsuramen.com, https://www.tatsuramen.com/ramen/chicken (accessed Sep 19, 2026) - [4] tatsuramen.com, https://www.tatsuramen.com/late-night-ramen (accessed Sep 19, 2026) - [5] tatsuramen.com, https://www.tatsuramen.com/order (accessed Sep 19, 2026) - [6] tatsuramen.com, https://www.tatsuramen.com/ramen/tonkotsu (accessed Sep 19, 2026) - [7] tatsuramen.com, https://www.tatsuramen.com/ramen/vegan (accessed Sep 19, 2026) - [8] AI engine output: ChatGPT and Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Oct 18, 2026, https://localairegistry.com/methodology (accessed Sep 19, 2026) - [9] tatsuramen.com, https://tatsuramen.com/tatsu-ramen-arts-district-dtla/ (accessed Oct 18, 2026)