雨風本舗 — Restaurant in Atami

The ramen was decent but not exceptional. I feel like this place gets customers like piggyback rides from the hype coming from the neighboring dessert shop (Atami Puddings) across the street. The counters were sticky from grease build up and apparent soup splatters on the chopsticks dispenser made me cringe. It was obvious that little was done to upkeep the front of the house of the shop. The open counter seating with guests seated on front of the kitchen allows guests to see everything like the food splatter build up dried and caked on the walls. It's clear the shop hasn't seen proper cleaning or upkeep in quite some time. If the owner wants repeat customers, he should clean better. The toilet is located uncomfortably close to the dining area making unpleasant smell of urine waft...

arrived at 1110am on sunday. And queued for 15mins. Ordered soy sauce pork ramen $1200 and miso pork ramen $1300. The remen is quite salty and miso is more salty that you need to drink a lot of water. Soy sauce is petty good overall. But it is not worth to queue more than 30mins, which there are only 6 chairs in the restaurant. If you are not very hungry, order the normal one...

Asked for the おすすめ and was recommended the shoyu ramen, so we ordered that. It came with half a soft boiled egg, a piece of seaweed, two thick slices of chashu, and pieces of bamboo shoot. The bamboo shoot were the best I've had in any ramen! Cooked soft and with lots of flavour. The chashu was also flavourful with that melt-in-your-mouth...