Laid-back pick serving Japanese ramen, steamed buns (bao) alongside locally-influenced small plates. Based on 395 reviews, the restaurant has received a rating of 4.3 stars. Price $$
✔️ Dine-in ✔️ Takeout ✔️ Delivery
Address:
330 Main St Suite 100, Chico, CA 95928
Phone: (530) 487-7488
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Hours
| Friday | 11 AM–1 AM |
| Saturday | 11 AM–1 AM |
| Sunday | Closed |
| Monday
(Labor Day)
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Closed |
| Tuesday | 11 AM–9 PM |
| Wednesday | 11 AM–9 PM |
| Thursday | 11 AM–9 PM |
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Reviews
Lauren York
We absolutely love Momona! Their food is elevated and delicious, with unexpected details and we always have the best experience there. Our favorite ramen is the Chico Ramen, with crispy kale and pickled mushrooms that are so tasty. We also love their pork bao bun and their cocktails are on point. Highly recommend!
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Marco Tong
Pork belly bao is great. Potstickers were fine, ramen is appropriate portion and broth flavour depth was good. Toppings may not be fully traditional though but I consider this restaurant to be Japanese with a slight fusion influence.
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Karen Bernhardy
Great food! Great service! I had the, “Build your own noodle” and my adult daughter had the, “Build your own bowl”. We both loved our choices. We also ordered the “Boa with pork belly” to share. They were very good!
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Carrie Tatreau
Yes to trying everything here! Momona is my first experience with Bao and Ramen (of course not the college style). Wow! The restaurant interior is warm, unique and inviting. The food was off the charts tasty with a hearty splash of unique that I thoroughly loved. Try it and I bet you’ll be surprised.
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Backwoods Bastard
So we started with a $40 dollar bill, after 5 days we were feeding for breakfast and lunch! Croissants, cinnamon rolls, almond roll, ham and cheese…the affogatto, double espresso with a scoop of ice cream, damn at 6 o’clock in the morn.
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Ingrid Cordes
I ordered the pan fried noodles. Had to send them back because they were too salty. Second batch was good (not great) but $14 for a small bowl if noodles with very little chopped bok choy and scallions? Come on! $6 would have been more like it. My first and last time there.
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Alex Sorger
Love the new location and the excellent service. The food is at a different level and can highly recommend the Chicken & Waffles dish and the amazing ramen soups. Suggest making a reservation for dinner.
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Brooke Alexander
Momona’s new updated location is the perfect blend of updated and upscale dining while also keeping the charm of the older building they renovated. The atmosphere had a great charm to it that felt more like laid back family style dining. The food and drinks came out quickly, which was a surprise as they where pretty packed for a Wednesday evening. Their new updated dinner and cocktail menu was great to see. I will say they do need to tweak a few things on some of their dishes and cocktail menu for my review to go from 3 to 5 stars. The chicken and waffles was good, but it needs a something like a maple syrup element to tie in the mochi waffle and the chicken. A spicy maple syrup would have been perfect to cut the dryness of the waffle.Also, who makes a chicken and waffle dish and does not have a syrup! The Shrimp and Rice was tasty with a warm and savory coating to it but it needed something like Siracha mayo to coat the rice a little since the fried rice was dry. I also hate when you pay almost $20 for a shrimp meal and you have to de shell the shrimp yourself. It is a messy process. The kimchi and bao where as always amazing and will be my number one item I come back to purchase every time. The reason for the three stars is the cocktails flavor profiles VERY where off. Started with a cocktail that had a orange citrus flavor and oat milk and tapioca pearls. The tapioca where rock hard and we could not enjoy them at all and the oat-milk did nothing to defuse the acidic flavor in drink from the orange they added. The cocktail needed an herbal element to it to cut the acidity. My friend had a drink that was very tropical TeKi drink but it was over powering in its rye whiskey and sugar, making it very had to enjoy. The last drink we got was the Suzie Q, which was very off in its flavor profile as it tasted like straight up soap. Something about the yuzu, sake and green chartreuse did not pare well all and all three in my party thought it was the most unpalatable cocktail of all three. For $12 cocktails, these need to be slightly more refined in order for me to try them again.
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Faith Rousseau
The staff were friendly and it had a cute outdoor seating area. Half of the Bao buns were really good. But the ramen, the entire reason for coming wasn’t good. It was overpriced for what you got. And there just wasn’t a lot of flavor. Also, I don’t know who suggested using metal chopsticks, but noodles slide right off of them. I hope that maybe we just went on an off day because I hate when cute small businesses just aren’t good. ♀️
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Maggie Farlow
Such an amazing spot. The food always blows us away. You can tell the chef put love into his menu. Drinks were phenomenal as well.
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