While the giant bowl could use more noodles and less broth, the house-made udon stands up in quality to Ruckus’s equally great ramen noodles. (5 Tyler St., Boston) Niku udon at Yume Ga Arakura ...

Udon Time is housed in the same new Design District development, One Henry Adams, as soon-to-open sibling businesses from the Omakase Group: Niku Steakhouse and an adjacent butcher, The Butcher ...

My hive-mate J. Kenji López-Alt recently shared his go-to speedy family meal: niku udon (above), a Japanese beef noodle soup, which he wrote about in his column for The Times.