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| - Went on a Friday night with two other friends for dinner. I've been to the Kinton downtown before, and was hoping that this location would have the same type of quality in experience. The wait was fairly reasonable for a new restaurant, it ranged between 20-30 mins.
The wait time for the food was average. I ordered a shoyu pork ramen, my other two friends ordered the original soup base ramen with pork, and the spicy broth with pork ramen. We also ordered a hot karage (spicy fried chicken). All three broths in general were very watered down. My shoyu tasted the best out of the three in terms of soup base. The original (which is ironic because it's the original) was the most watered down. It didn't even have much of a pork taste to it - very bland. The spicy soup base tasted like half water, half Sriracha. The sauce for the spicy fried chicken tasted like a mixture of tomato, lemon, and Sriracha. All in all, the food was less than decent.
Now, the service that my friends and I were receiving was beyond disrespectful. Not only did we have to ask more than once for a refill on water. My main concern is that we asked if we could split the bill right when we put in our orders to avoid complications later when we asked for the bill. Our original server told us it was no problem, and so we told her how to split it. Tell me why, the next server brought our bill unsplit, and then he gives us attitude for requesting to split our bill again.
I definitely expected more from a restaurant under the Kinton franchise. It's a real shame that the service from the Kinton that I've been to from Baldwin St. downtown couldn't be replicated at this location. Honestly, I understand the hype, but if you're trying to grab a quick ramen fix from Markham, there are other places that provide better quality both in service, and in food options.
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