damnlines.comdamnlines.comHo Foods is a tiny 10-seat East Village counter known for its housemade Taiwanese beef noodle soup, whose small footprint and cult following create frequent waits at peak dinner hours.
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Ho Foods is a cult-favorite Taiwanese noodle counter in the East Village, best known for its Traditional Beef Noodle Soup made with housemade noodles, pasture-raised beef shank and tendon, house-fermented mustard greens, and a 24-hour beef bone broth. With only about 10 seats in the whole restaurant, the tiny space can seat just a handful of parties at once, so a line or wait forms whenever the counter gets busy.
Reported wait times vary widely by reviewers: some diners describe waits of up to about two hours on busy weeknight evenings, while others were seated in roughly 30 minutes on similar nights, and one reviewer reported only about a 20-minute wait arriving around 2pm on a Friday afternoon. Ho Foods also keeps limited, split hours (closed Tuesdays, with separate lunch and dinner windows on several days), so both the time of day and the day of the week appear to matter a lot for how long you'll wait.
Patterns as reported by press and regulars — not measured by damnlines.
Damnlines doesn't have a live camera at Ho Foods yet, so we can't show a real-time line count for this spot. That said, reviewers report wait times swinging widely: some have waited up to about two hours on busy weeknight evenings, while others got seated in roughly 20 to 30 minutes on quieter afternoons, so expect real variance depending on when you show up.
We couldn't confirm a formal reservation policy in our research. With only about 10 seats, the counter appears to run largely first-come, first-served, which is a big part of why a line forms during busy periods.
Reported hours are Monday 5-10pm, closed Tuesday, Wednesday 5-10pm, Thursday 11am-3pm and 5-10pm, Friday 9am-3pm and 5-10pm, Saturday 9:30am-3:30pm and 5-10pm, and Sunday 9:30am-3:30pm and 5-9pm. Always double-check current hours before visiting, since small restaurants change schedules often.
Ho Foods is a small East Village counter known for its Traditional Beef Noodle Soup, made with housemade noodles, pasture-raised beef shank and tendon, house-fermented mustard greens, and a 24-hour beef bone broth. Its tiny footprint (about 10 seats) and cult following are the main reasons it draws a wait.
We don't have live wait data for this venue, but reviewer reports suggest off-peak afternoon visits (rather than prime weeknight dinner hours starting around 5pm) tend to move faster, with some diners reporting waits as short as 20 minutes in the early afternoon versus up to two hours on busy weeknights.
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