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A red bowl of ramen with soft eggs, chashu and scallions on a dark mat, with chopsticks, a teapot and fresh vegetables around it

Ramen bar · Logan Square, Chicago

Eighteen hours in every bowl

Pork-bone tonkotsu that simmers through the night, a vegan miso with nothing missing, and 30 seats pouring bowls until 1am.

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The 18-hour tonkotsu

Started yesterday, ready tonight

Our broth goes in the pot at seven in the evening and nobody turns it down. By lunch the next day the bones have given up everything and it pours thick and milky.

  1. 7:00 pmPork bones blanched, scrubbed and back in the pot
  2. 1:00 amA hard rolling boil all night turns the fat into broth
  3. 9:00 amStrained, tasted and balanced with our shoyu tare
  4. 1:00 pmHour eighteen: the first bowl of the day leaves the pass
Thin noodles lifted high out of a bowl of ramen with a soft egg A cook grilling pork over charcoal behind the bar Two cooks working the pots behind white noren curtains
A cook in whites stirs a steaming pot at the ramen counter while guests eat

Tonight's bowls

Tonkotsu from above: golden broth, chashu pork, a soft egg and greens in a white bowl
A vegan bowl of noodles with greens, tofu and sesame
Spicy tantan ramen from above with red chili broth, scallions and two soft eggs

  • Tonkotsu

    Eighteen-hour pork broth, chashu, soft egg, wood ear and nori

    $17

  • Vegan miso

    Kombu and roasted shiitake broth, white miso, tofu, avocado

    $16

  • Spicy tantan

    Sesame and chili broth, ground pork, bok choy, scallion

    $18

  • Late-night shoyu

    Clear soy broth, thin noodles, chashu; after 10pm only

    $14
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Pork or plant, the same care

Two broths, two pots, two sets of ladles. Order the vegan miso and nothing from the pork pot comes near it.

A bowl of tonkotsu at an angle with nori, a soft egg and thin noodles

Tonkotsu

$17
Broth
Pork bone, 18 hours at a boil
Noodle
Thin, straight, cooked firm
On top
Chashu, soft egg, wood ear, nori
A vegan miso ramen with silken tofu, shiitake, avocado and greens in a black bowl

Vegan miso

$16
Broth
Kombu, roasted shiitake, white miso
Noodle
Wavy and egg-free
On top
Silken tofu, shiitake, avocado, greens
A busy ramen counter late at night, cooks working under warm lanterns while guests eat

Hungry at midnight? We're still ladling

Off a late shift, out of a show at the Logan, or just not ready for bed: the kitchen keeps pouring until 1am, every night of the week.

A bowl of shoyu ramen with chashu, bean sprouts and scallion, chopsticks across the rim

Bowls until 1am

  • Kitchen opens5:00 pm
  • Late-night shoyufrom 10:00 pm
  • Last bowls1:00 am
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Friends raise their glasses across a wooden table in a warm barThe wooden counter set with bowls, chopsticks and condiments under hanging lamps

Thirty seats, two ways in

30 seats, open until 1am. Twelve stools face the pots and stay for walk-ins; the other eighteen are tables you can book.

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    Book a table

    Tables for two to six, any night from 5pm until 1am.

  2. 02

    Or walk in

    The counter is first come, first served. Solo diners usually sit within minutes.

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    We text you

    Full house? Leave your number at the door and we message you when a stool opens.

Seven years of empty bowls

2,000+ five-star reviews in 7 years

The tonkotsu is thick enough to coat the spoon. I think about it on the Blue Line home.
Marcus T.
Finally a vegan miso that isn't an afterthought. The whole table ended up ordering it.
Priya S.
Off a late shift at 12:30 and they still served us like it was eight o'clock.
Dani R.
Thirty seats, always busy, never rushed. Our Friday night for four years now.
Kevin & Mai
A guest slurps ramen noodles straight from her chopsticks

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Tables for two to six, 5pm to 1am. We hold the counter for walk-ins, so there is always a way in.