Bones

Bones, an asian fusion noodle shop is located on the same block as Frank Bonnano's two other successful restaurants Mizuna and Luca D'italia. Very popular among denver food blogs and with just a dozen two top tables and a bar overlooking the small open kitchen, it was inevitable that we would be leaving with a new perfume in our clothes again.  Perhaps my expectations were too high.  We started with the popular steamed buns with suckling pig and pork belly. I was expecting something closer to the fluffy white bun you would find surrounding chinese bbq pork at dim sum.  The suckling pig was dry and the bun was chewy and dense, virtually inedible.

We split the ba mee with tofu, corn, leeks in a coconut coconut lemongrass broth and the ramen with slow cooked pork shoulder and a soft poached egg.  Both noodle bowls were solid with well developed broths and al dente noodles, however as a true fan of asian fusion, this concept just didn't work for me.  When i want ramen again, i will probably go to ototo or hands down the winner of ramen Ippudo in NYC.

Plate score: 5