The craze for ramen hit London hard last year and you can't move for decent ramen bars now - Bone Daddies probably being the best known. For the uninitiated, ramen is one of Japan's most popular dishes and is essentially a big comforting bowl of richly flavoured soup stock created by simmering a combination of pork and chicken for hours until creamy and gelatinous. Then there's noodles, all manner of toppings and - crucially - a soft boiled egg marinated in soy. People get ob

Shackfuyu is a twelve month pop up on Soho's Old Compton Street from the Bone Daddies lot. I've not been to Bone Daddies as ramen is just not my thing, but I loved loved loved their other one - Flesh and Buns - remember? Who can forget that crispy piglet belly? Shackfuyu is doing something in a similar vein; it's worldy Japanese style junk food sharing style. A quick phonecall established they were baby buggy friendly (unlike a lot of the Soho basement type places cropping up

Another weekend, another excuse to drink prosecco all day and call it brunching. This time we tried something a bit different and went to Flesh and Buns, an outpost of Soho's ramen based Bone Daddies, serving what Jay Rayner has called 'Asian junk food' and he is right; typical Japanese this is not. Situated off Seven Dials, Flesh and Buns is a basement filled with glossy red tones, dark wood and the standard industrial style lighting, completely removing any concept of time