All the Kinton Ramen hype spamming my facebook feed made me desperate to try this place, but sadly I left Kinton unsatisfied and annoyed.
The restaurant itself is warm and homey...perfect to prepare anyone for noodles and soup. As you enter, the whole restaurant greets you and as people leave, they do they same thing. Overall a really happy Japanese atmosphere.
**Make sure your whole party is ready or else they won't seat you (understandable considering their limited seating capacity).
The spicy chicken app was my favorite and something I would come back for. It was soooooooooo good. The ramen was definitely authentic but it's also overhyped. (It's not something I would wait outside in line for). I like that you can choose the meat and broth to help watch the waistline. If you finish your bowl (with the soup), they'll reward you with a prize and ask to post your photo on facebook as part of their "Bowlers" club.
Service is fantastic when it comes to the food but the limited English the servers understand made my night painful. We ended up waiting an hour to fix a mess up with bills and waited 20 minutes for a refund. I understand that the chefs are pure Japanese for authenticity of the food but why can't there be bilingual staff to help run things more smoothly? I was annoyed and begging to leave the restaurant by the time the mix up finally panned out.
I don't think I'll come back to Kinton... maybe for that chicken... but only maybe.