Broken record but the fried crab rice and coconut curry crab are amazing. But Service is rushed and poor.
Russ & Daughters's Super Heebster is the stuff of legend, a mammoth $12 masterpiece packed with whitefish and baked salmon salad. The whole thing is held together by a bagel sourced from Bagel Hole. Read more.
Tokyo Tsuke-Men Spicy Miso: Spicy miso broth and whole slew of extra ingredients, to be added to the bowl at your pleasure. And the price is slightly less than at other East Village ramen-ya. Read more.
Toroniku Salt Ramen: The deconstructed version features wavy noodles and broth in one bowl, and pork belly and other add-ins neatly arranged on an adjacent plate. Read more.
HinoMaru Ramen: Go wild with Hinomaru’s “New York Style”: two kinds of fish-cake (one with a jovial monkey face) plus their signature “fireball” — a loose meatball of peppery ground pork. Read more.
Grilled Salmon Ramen: This soup works, mainly by not being too fussy, so that the salmon can shine next to the wavy, wobbly noodles, further flavored with scallions and kelp. Read more.
Veggie Ramen: A pale miso thickening with seasonal vegetables such as cabbage, sweet potato, snow peas and corn. Adding a gooey egg helps ramp up the richness. Read more.
Center a meal around the pig head terrine with gribiche, stracciatello with wilted greens, pork shoulder with salsa verde, and falafel with hummus and harissa. Read more.
The menu features Han Dynasty favorites like dan dan noodles and a dry hot pot. Read more.
Head here for meaty pastas like veal tongue-filled cappelletti in brodo and garganelli with white heritage pork sugo, plus seafood and vegetable dishes off the grill. Read more.
Order the kua kling, brisket soup, and rice noodles. Bring your own beer or wine as Ugly Baby currently doesn’t charge a corkage. Read more.
