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Oiistar

Super GemWicker Park · Ramen/Asian Fusion Community-sourced, unverified
📍 1385 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60622

Oiistar doesn't play it safe with ramen — the kitchen cross-pollinates the format with half a dozen different global cuisines rather than sticking to one tonkotsu lane.

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Oiimen — pork belly, egg, tree-ear mushroom, and spicy garlic oil — is the signature among a lineup that also cross-pollinates ramen with Indian (Tikkamen) and Mexican (Pozolmen) flavors, at a Wicker Park spot running since 2012 with a solid 4.0/848 Yelp average.

Oiimen, the signature, runs pork belly, egg, scallion, tree-ear mushroom, and a spicy garlic oil; Tikkamen swaps in masala-spiced chicken and nori for an Indian-leaning bowl, while Pozolmen pulls pork loin, jalapeno, and chipotle into something closer to Mexican pozole built on ramen bones. It's been doing this since 2012, long enough to earn a real local reputation and a genuinely good 4.0-star Yelp average across 848 reviews — consistent numbers for a decade-plus-old concept, not a flash-in-the-pan opening buzz.

The kitchen is explicit about one thing: these noodles are built fresh to order and genuinely not meant for takeout, a stance that tells you to eat in and eat promptly rather than letting a bowl sit in a bag on the walk home. Weekday visits are the move — weekend lines stretch out the door for a restaurant that's earned the wait but doesn't require tolerating it if you can help it.

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Oiistar

Super Gem
Oiimen Tonkotsu
Wicker ParkCommunity

Hours

Lunch and dinner
weekday/weekend hours vary (check oiistar.com)
📅 Reservations not available 🥡 Takeout unconfirmed 📞 (773) 360-8791

Amenities & accessibility

🚶Walk-in only, no reservations
❔Takeout: unverified
❔Wheelchair access: unverified
🙂Kid-friendly

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