New York Awesomeness

Xande Macedo: LA and Chicago transplants: Intelligentsia in the house.

Xande Macedo: If it is your first time here order the burger. Just do it. You won't regret it.

Xande Macedo: They have pão de queijo and brigadeiro. Enough said.

Time Out New York: Ippudo was brought to NYC by Shigemi Kawahara, who is known as "the Ramen King" in Japan; his rich, cloudy tonkotsu broths draw the longest lines the city's ramen-ya, and they're well worth the wait. Read more.