Located where the old "swish" used to be.. still keeping it somewhat the same with serving shabu shabu... and they also added some ramen in the menu.. so that's cool..
Walking in.. host seemed or looked to be little confused.. like I wanted to ask her.. are you guys open or not because by the confused look you're giving me I'm not even sure if we're suppose to be in here lol..
Anyways.. she asked if we wanted shabu shabu.. and I said no.. we will just have ramen today.. so she pointed us to what i assumed to be the "ramen" side or the non shabu shabu side to be seated..
Furniture and decor was very nice with wooden tables also with some wooden slab walls and a bench style seating on the wall side and a couple booth style seating in the middle of the restaurant.. there's more seating on the other side but I couldn't tell if it's just normal seating or the shabu shabu style table where there's a person in the middle..
Music playing wasn't too loud nor was it too soft for me.. and the choice of music seemed to be a set of your typical top 40..
The host that sat us down was also our waitress.. she started us off with some water in plastic cups with plastic lids.. then she gave us 4 menus of shabu shabu plate choices and on the back is a beverage menu.. with 1 ramen menu that seemed like a 2 year old put together.. (piece of paper on a cardboard stapled on)
Waitress comes back after a few minutes and asked us if this was our first time.. and I replied.. yes, first time at this place.. she then started explaining what shabu shabu was as if she was confused about our reply to as our first time here... I then replied saying we know what shabu shabu was that's why we chose ramen...
Our waters came out.. definitely unfiltered.. :(
Ramen came out.. noodles tasted fresh.. but I felt like the noodle : broth ratio was off.. as all four of our orders had more noodles than broth in each bowl.. good for those who like more noodles /:
Service was fine.. but the confusion with the hostess/waitress and the fact that it came off as she was new to the industry.. maybe even new to the food itself because she didn't know what cha-siu was... /:
Won't return for ramen... because the ramen comes basic and you'll need to add toppings (add money) to make it just the way you want it... or how normal other ramen spots serve...
Good luck and I hope this place works out.. I'll try the shabu shabu when the time comes..