I came here with two friends this past week for lunch and suprisingly the line-up wasn't that long ( I guess we beat the lunch crowd). Upon being called for seating, we were escorted to the bench area that was directly from the kitchen. We sat directly across the glass pane where all the huge pots of soup/stock were constantly being boiled. Note to everyone: try to avoid these seats...you'll be guaranteed to have a sweaty meal.
Now onto the food, I ordered the chicken kaarage and the shoyu ramen with light broth and pork shoulder. The chicken was amazingly good! Juicy, tender and just the right amount of seaoned crispiness. The mayo sauce (I think) that it came with for dipping was also to die for...I could probaly spread this stuff over everything because that's how good it was.
The ramen itself was a huge heaping bowl of noodles and soup. I found the consistency of the ramen to be chewy and fresh as expected of a ramen joint. The pork shoulder was okay, all I tasted was saltiness. There wasn't much dimension with the flavour. The miso soup was tasty, I managed to finish most of it, before I reached my capacity.
If I was to compare it to Kenzo, I think I would still have a slight preference towards Kenzo, there is just something extra tasty with their version of Ramen.
My next adventure would be to try Sensotei Ramen, which just happened to open directly across from Kenzo on Dundas St. W. I wonder how this place will fare.