The Mexican Ramen Shop Worth a Two-Hour Wait—Even in July

Digital subscribers can listen to this article. Subscribe today for unlimited access to Texas Monthly. Already a subscriber? Log in. The line of customers in front of Ramen del Barrio’s new location stretched down the block and around the corner on the restaurant’s first day of business, a hot Saturday in late July. Wait times in the queue were between ninety minutes and two hours. One woman in line fainted from heat exhaustion. She was rushed into the restaurant by strangers, sat down at a table, and given water. Owner-chef Christopher Krinsky insisted on feeding her immediately. As he spoke with the woman, Krinsky learned she had been a longtime customer at the previous location, a stall inside Asian grocer Hana World Market, which closed in…

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