I had visited Ippudo twice before this time throughout my whole life, once in London and once in the East Village. This original post just had a comment of “Overrated and pricey. I’d skip here any day of the week. Daikokuya in LA is way better”. Because I didn’t take pics of my dinner nearly 4 years ago, I thought about revisiting this Midtown location to try to remember why I was underwhelmed.

This is an updated review for the Midtown / Times Square (Theater District) location for Ichiran. I had been to the original Bushwick location years ago, and I didn’t take pictures nor remembered much about it. The only thing I wrote down was it was a much better version of Shinsengumi. Shinsengumi was a popular Torrance (California) restaurant that served hakata style ramen. They also allowed you to select your flavor profiles, and it was far less busy than Ichiran.

This is Marc Forgione’s fast food-ish restaurant near Penn Station. I got the chili lobster here, but it’s not as good as having it at the restaurant. It’s also CLOSED.

Pretty good tsukemen. Get the spicy miso. Tsukemen seems fairly rare in NYC. Still looking for something similar to LA Tsujita.

I think this is still one of my top favorite ramen places in NYC. It’s cash only.

It seems I only wrote “pretty good” on my spreadsheet, and right now I am drawing a blank about this place.

So bad. The lomo saltado is really dry. Can’t seem to find a decent lomo saltado in NYC.

Pretty good bento boxing place. A little pricey but no need to tip.

Across from Bryant Park. Expensive AF chocolate ($3 pp), but the other desserts were amazing. Really good chocolate though.

The Christmas log is good. A lot of Frenchy desserts.