Six stools on Grant Alley
A rented counter, one pot of beef-bone broth, and a cook who could pull a bowl's worth of noodles in under a minute.
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Our story, one pull at a time.
Scroll the timeline: the line draws itself down the page, and each year pops the moment the ink reaches it.
Six stools to three neighborhoods
Since 2012
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Grant Alley
“One pot, six stools, and somehow a line.”
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The window
“People came for the noodles and stayed for the show.”
We cut a window into the kitchen
The line could finally watch every stretch, slap and fold. It became the best seat in the house — and our longest queue.
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The broth
“The slowest thing we make. On purpose.”
The thirty-six-hour broth
Bones roasted dark, then simmered a day and a half. The recipe card is still taped above the stove, splattered and annotated.
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Ninth Street
“Same recipe card — laminated twice now.”
A second room on Ninth Street
Same broth, same pull, three times the seats — plus a takeout shelf for the order-ahead crowd.
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Today
“Still pulled to order. Every single bowl.”
Still pulled to order — now order ahead
Three shops, one recipe card. Every bowl is still stretched when you order it; now you can skip the line.
Watch the pull through the kitchen window at any of our three shops.
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