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| - For the sake of scale, if Ajisen is a 1 at the bottom, Kenzo is a 5, & Momofuku (in NY) is a 10, I think Kinton is a 6. Although it's probably one of the best ramen places in the GTA, Toronto deserves a higher tier of ramen.
I checked out Kinton one week following their soft launch and they are still smoothing out their service. They don't have their liquor license yet & food was often brought to the wrong people.
I started with the house made lemon aid (not worth the $3), gyoza (average/wouldn't bother ordering again), & tofu nuggets (not bad).
I opted for the cheese ramen as I thought if noodles & cheese (mac & cheese) are good and soup & cheese (french onion soup) is good, then soup & noodles & cheese would be double plus good. Sadly my logic failed. Maybe it was because I chose to push all the cheese into the soup to melt it, as the melted cheese severely inhibited my ability to properly slurp the noodles. Slurping ramen is the only way to get noodles laced with the proper ratio of broth. The other issue the cheese causes is that I couldn't bring up the corn at the bottom of the bowl. The broth (I had the regular) was tasty, but a bit on the salty side. Sadly the noodles while good, are not hand pulled.
I had some of my wife's spicy garlic ramen with the light broth which was much better than the cheese ramen.
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