Ivan Ramen

Chef Ivan Orkin’s ramen shop has been a fixture on the Lower East Side since its 2014 debut, with one of its most popular menu items a ramen Orkin developed while living in Tokyo (he commanded a ramenya of the same name for eight years there). Go for the Tokyo shio (shio means salt in Japanese), which is made with a split base of chicken broth and dashi, poured atop of a mess of thin, straight rye noodles, fortified with pork belly, a soft egg, and roasted tomato.