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Japanese Restaurant · Lower East Side · 214 tips and reviews
Melody Han: Come for lunch on the weekend and there's no wait. For summer - the cold kimchi soba is revolutionary. Served with just-cooked egg, cool and filling and refreshing.
Ramen Restaurant · Greenwich Village · 1164 tips and reviews
Melody Han: Best ramen broth in the city, but be prepared to wait. Go early, put your name in for a specific time, and come back when you're ready to eat.
Japanese Restaurant · East Village · 46 tips and reviews
Melody Han: Neighborhood gem, sexy and well hidden. Japanese meatballs are served with fried eggs, great sake and shochu selection. Pay attention to the specials.
Japanese Restaurant · East Village · 144 tips and reviews
Melody Han: A step up from the St. Marks chaos of Yakitori Taisho and Oh Taisho - darker, more grown up, better food. Crispy fried squid legs, ikura don, sake.
Japanese Restaurant · West Village · 263 tips and reviews
Melody Han: Expansive and a wee expensive. Really effing good cold tofu (housemade) and wagyu beef that dissolves on your tongue. $65 tasting menu available.
Melody Han: Dark, sexy, food only so-so but a cool place to take a date who'll dig the grafittied walls and the Japanese punk rock bartender. If you must eat, dried stingray with Kewpie mayo a good bet.
Japanese Restaurant · East Village · 102 tips and reviews
Melody Han: Omakase all the way. Master chef prepares the omakase while his apprentices make the sushi for table service. Otoro melts in your mouth and that white shrimp is 👌!
Sushi Restaurant · East Village · 28 tips and reviews
Melody Han: There's no sushi bar seating so the omakase isn't served piece by piece. Still the best mid-range omakase in the 'hood (~$50 for 10 pieces) and fantastic kitchen apps
130 Saint Marks Pl (btwn 1st Ave & Ave A), New York, NY
Japanese Restaurant · East Village · 64 tips and reviews
Melody Han: I've heard it called a poor man's Nakazawa which is awesome for me since I'm not baller enough to Nakazawa frequently. Kura has solid fish and entertaining service courtesy of chef. Get the omakase.
6 Bond St (btwn Broadway & Lafayette St), New York, NY
Sushi Restaurant · NoHo · 221 tips and reviews
Melody Han: One of the few NYC places you can find spicy tuna in crispy rice - which is pretty ubiquitous in the LA sushi scene. Pricey, though - great for client dinners
Sushi Restaurant · East Village · 87 tips and reviews
Melody Han: Three pieces from the omakase that I can't stop thinking about: perfectly seared salmon, scallop and uni, Maine uni. The sake somm is excellent.
57 Great Jones St (btwn Bowery & Lafayette St), New York, NY
Japanese Restaurant · NoHo · 181 tips and reviews
Melody Han: Hand carved ice ball for your Yamazaki on the rocks. Forego the tasting menu but don't forget to try the foie gras soba. Branzino perfect for sharing.
Udon Restaurant · East Village · 119 tips and reviews
Eater: These noodles are like a cross between the common udon we are familiar with and Italian linguine. The simplest, featuring fried bean curd or egg comes with seaweed or tempura (pick veg. or shrimp).