I've heard a lot about Kinton Ramen as visitor to Toronto and was glad to try it out at least once, though not in the downtown location.
There was a short 15 minute wait for a Saturday evening dinner.
I got a ramen set that came with a choice of side and ramen. Prices here are actually not bad, but that might be because I'm from NYC and am used to paying ridiculous prices for food anyways.
As my side, I chose the takoyaki and actually really liked it. It was hot, crispy on the outside and soft on the inside with tender octopus. The sauce was good.
Then it went a little bit downhill. I found my spicy garlic ramen to be a little bit tasteless. I chose the thin noodles instead of the thick because I love the thin ramen; they recommend you choose the thicker noodle with the spicy garlic. I don't regret my choice - the noodles themselves were fine. Where Kinton lost some points with me was on the broth. I LOVE garlic and eat garlic in everything but this broth had way too much minced garlic in it. I had garlic breath for days. More importantly than that, however, was the soup (regular richness) had little to no distinction or flavor to it. It also wasn't salty enough, which I never thought I would say about any ramen restaurant... there's usually TOO much salt.
I paid extra for my egg, and that egg is always worth it.
The pork belly was plentiful and was not too fatty.
Service overall was so-so.
Probably ranks quite low on my ramen restaurants list.