The 32 Best Noodle Shops in New York

A counter seat at this intimate Korean noodle bar puts you close enough to watch the pork bone broth hit the bowl, which is half the point. The menu is short and the prices are low for a Michelin-starred kitchen in the West Village. Gochu ramyun is the draw, but the kitchen moves between broth, salad, and rice with enough range that nothing feels like an afterthought.

1. Michelin Guide 1 Star
2. The New York Times 2017 · 2 stars · Restaurant Review

Ivan Orkin, a New Yorker who built his reputation running ramen shops in Tokyo, brought the whole project back home to the Lower East Side. The ramen shop is compact and casual, counter seats facing the kitchen, with a menu that mixes Japanese technique and New York personality without making a big fuss about either. The tsukemen, where you dip thick fresh noodles into rich pork broth and season to taste, rewards the curious. Grub Street named it one of the city's best restaurants for kids.

1. The New York Times 2014 · 2 stars · Restaurant Review
2. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
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The hand-pulled noodles here get stir-fried to order, and the soup dumplings draw a crowd that fills every table and then stands outside doing the math on the wait. This is a loud, steamy Chinese noodle house in Midtown that holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand, so the lines are not going anywhere. The dumpling menu alone could occupy a dedicated researcher. Cash in your patience and go.

1. Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand

David Chang's noodle shop has been around forever, and the steamed buns alone have kept it packed. The room runs on wood counters and an open kitchen, and service moves at a clip, which suits the vibe. The menu leans into Asian street food with enough creativity to keep regulars guessing. A Michelin Bib Gourmand, and the kind of spot where you'll spend less than you expect and think about it for days after.

1. Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand
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Buckwheat soba, hot or cold depending on what the weather is doing to you, has kept this East Village noodle shop humming for longer than most of its neighbors have existed. The room runs to booths, counter seats, and a calm, traditional feel that makes it easy to linger. A Michelin Bib Gourmand, and one of the rare spots in the city where a walk-in during peak dinner hours won't leave you standing on the sidewalk.

1. Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand

The tonkotsu broth here is pork-forward but never heavy, which sounds like a small thing until you've slogged through a bowl that coats your throat like spackling compound. This Tokyo-based ramen shop in Midtown pulls its noodles in-house, and they hold their spring all the way to the bottom of the bowl. The Michelin Guide awarded it a Bib Gourmand. The room is sleek enough for a working lunch and relaxed enough for a slow dinner.

1. Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand

The chef makes the ceramic bowls himself, which tells you a lot about the pace of a meal here. This Greenpoint soba shop occupies a warehouse with factory windows and skylights, and the hand-cut buckwheat noodles, served cold or hot with dashi, are the point. Pricing runs steep for a noodle lunch, but the room is genuinely industrial and the gluten-free menu surprisingly complete. Soba-making classes also run here, if you'd like homework.

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White walls, communal tables, and a daytime-only pace that makes Long Island City feel like it has a neighborhood café worth leaving the subway for. Vert Frais is a Japanese noodle and rice bowl spot backed by the chef behind Kanoyama, which means the cooking is more assured than the casual room suggests. The shio ramen runs clean and lightly fatty, and the soufflé pancakes are the kind of tall, jiggly thing people photograph before they eat it in about four minutes.

1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

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The rice noodles here are stubby and chewy rather than the thin, rippling sheets you'd find elsewhere in Chinatown, and that texture is the whole point. Chang Lai is a tiny Cantonese noodle shop on Bayard where the regulars from the old street cart days have simply followed the owners indoors. Curry fish balls and noodles with all the sauces will run you around five dollars, which leaves you no excuse not to go twice.

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1. NJ.com #45 · New Jersey’s 99 greatest restaurants, ranked

1. NJ.com #45 · New Jersey’s 99 greatest restaurants, ranked

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1. The New York Times 2023 · 2 stars, Critic's Pick · Restaurant Review
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1. Grub Street The 43 Best Restaurants in New York

1. Grub Street The 43 Best Restaurants in New York

Rice ground daily on-site in electric stone mills is the tell at this no-frills Flushing counter, a Cantonese cheong fun spot tucked into a minimall off Roosevelt Avenue. The noodle sheets come out nearly translucent, rolled around pork, shrimp, or egg to order. The New York Times gave it a Critic's Pick, which tracks: there are very few places in the city where the rice noodle itself is this clearly the point.

1. The New York Times 2019 · Critic's Pick · Restaurant Review

1. The New York Times 2019 · Critic's Pick · Restaurant Review

1. The New York Times 2018 · Critic's Pick · Restaurant Review

1. The New York Times 2017 · 1 star · Restaurant Review