Life is always an adventure with Food Network Star Justin Warner and his wife, Rapid City native, Brooke Sweeten. From Colorado to Brooklyn to Japan, the couple has made the most of each destination. Their newest adventure has brought them back to Brooke’s hometown – a move they are both happy to have made. “Life has only gotten better since we settled here,” said Justin, season eight winner of Food Network Star. In March, the couple opened Bokujo Ramen, a quaint restaurant in the former Black Hills Works’ BakeWorks bakery that combines their love of Japanese food with local ingredients.

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“Brooke and I met in a Japanese restaurant in Fort Collins, Colorado, and Japanese food has always been one of the many pillars of our relationship. We have also been fortunate enough to spend a lot of time in Japan and ramen was the food we wanted to eat the most. When we looked around at the environment here and saw how many fantastic agricultural products there were, we decided that ramen was the way to go.”

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The decision has been a popular one. “The response has been totally overwhelming. Day one we had a line out the door,” Justin said. Bokujo means “pasture” or “ranch” in Japanese and Warner and Sweeten focus on using the freshest ingredients working closely with local producers such as Wild Idea Buffalo, Black Hills Mushrooms and Wall Meats. “A restaurant needs to grow organically from the environment that it is in,” Justin said. Their flagship dish, Beef Bone (gyokotsu) Ramen, is a celebration of South Dakota’s agricultural industry. The broth is cooked for 24 hours creating a creamy, milky white broth and then the ramen is topped with chislic, the state’s nosh. “It is so rich and so satisfying and is truly a taste of the land around us.”

Justin and Brooke landed in Rapid City after a year-long RV trip across the country where they were “dating” cities to find the perfect match. Tired of living in New York, the couple was in search of a different lifestyle that provided a better work-life balance. After buying an RV off Craigslist, they brought it to Brooke’s parents’ house in Rapid City to get it ready for their cross-country trek. Spending most of 2019 traveling, the couple decided their perfect match was where they started. “While we love that sort of lifestyle, it is adventurous and fun, but you don’t get that sense of home,” Justin said. “We realized that this was a great place. We fell in love with the outdoor activities, and the friendly nature of people. The community is so welcoming.” The couple eventually purchased a small house off West Boulevard, only a short distance from Justin’s favorite spot – M Hill. Aside from being close to family and the outdoors, the ease of traveling in and out of Rapid City’s airport was key to their decision to stay. “All these pieces fit together,” said Justin who frequently flies to both coasts to shoot for Food Network.

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Justin, who grew up in Maryland, began his Food Network fame by accident. In his journey to become “the greatest waiter alive” he received a casting call for a Food Network show that needed cooks. “They said, ‘you are a waiter not a cook’ and I said how hard can it be. When do you shoot? I’ll learn.” His arrogance paid off winning a spot on the show. In 2012, he auditioned for Food Network Star with a tutorial on how to peel a hard-boiled egg. “The hard-boiled egg is now a symbol of my life. We feature a soft-boiled egg in our ramen dishes, peeling hundreds and hundreds of eggs [a day].” Since winning season eight, Justin has joined the roster of Food Network chefs appearing on a variety of shows including Cutthroat Kitchen, Meet Bobby Flay, and Guy’s Grocery Games.

Since meeting at the Colorado restaurant more than a decade ago, Justin and Brooke’s lives revolved around first-class food so it was likely their new adventure would involve the same thing.

“We have a distinct checklist on what it takes to open a restaurant – right place, right time, right money, right attitude and right people. To get all those things is pretty hard to do, but we found it here.” Now the couple hopes they are impacting the community by supporting local growers and producers as well as leaving a “trail of deliciousness.”

Bokujo Ramen is open for takeout and in-person dining 5 – 9 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday.

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