Restaurants to try

Mike Singleton: This Omakase-only Japanese restaurant begins serving ramen around 10 p.m. when the dinner rush dies down. They only serve one thing, shoyu ramen, but they do it well and will fill your bowl until 2am. Read more.

Mike Singleton: The time to go is noon on Wed and Fri when the chef has 30 bowls of ramen prepared for lunch service. If you're one of the lucky first arrivals, you'll get a bowl of Shio ramen for around $14. Read more.

Mike Singleton: At 11 p.m. each night, sushi restaurant SEO Japanese morphs into Ramen Sanshiro and serves two kinds of ramen, salt and soy. Cash only and serves until the broth runs out which could be as early as 1. Read more.

Echo Mah: authentic Japanese ramen. Better rhan Ippudo in my opinion.

Dens: Omakase from the downstairs sushi bar is amazing. Don't leave without trying the hand rolls (go spicy tuna!). I was also digging the salmon-meets-blowtorch sushi. Ask for fresh wasabi too.