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NORTH CHARLESTON — A new ramen restaurant is coming to Park Circle. Katsubō Chicken & Ramen is targeting a March opening, owner Joe Nierstedt told The Post and Courier. The eatery, an extension of a pop-up Nierstedt hosted at The Daily in 2021 , will be located at 4628 Spruill Ave.
, previously occupied by Jackrabbit Filly . Shuai and Corrie Wang's Chinese American restaurant operated at the address from 2019-2024 before relocating to 1083 E. Montague Ave.
in December. "I'm a big fan of Jackrabbit Filly," Nierstedt said. "It being a new buildout recently, it just made a lot of sense.
" Nierstedt is perhaps best known for KinFolk , the Johns Island fried chicken destination he operated with his brother Kevin from 2019 to 2023. He's been looking for a new location for that business or Katsubō since — and the Spruill Avenue space lent itself to the latter, he said. Nierstedt grasped the technique of ramen cookery while working at Mu Ramen, a highly regarded New York restaurant that closed in 2021.
He plans to bring that knowledge to Katsubō, which will offer various meat-based and vegetarian broths that will rotate throughout the year. "We had a line out the door every single day," Nierstedt said of his time at Mu Ramen. "Everything I learned comes from that restaurant.
" Katsubō was similarly busy during its time at The Daily. The name, the Japanese word for "craving," speaks to Nierstedt's goal of catering to a broad audience. He plans to do so at his new restaurant by offering ramen alongside a range of Japanese dishes, from charred edamame to okonomiyaki, blistered shishito peppers with bonito flakes, gyoza dumplings and fried chicken wings.
As he prepares to open Katsubō, Nierstedt didn't rule out the reincarnation of KinFolk, whose closure came at the end of the brothers' lease at 4430 Betsy Kerrison Parkway. Fans of the restaurant's fried chicken, scratch-made sides and soft serve ice cream — many of whom still reach out to Nierstedt for recipes — would surely support its return to the Lowcountry..
