Ramenya — Restaurant in Los Angeles

So, this place is walking distance from my friend's place and she thought the outdoor setup was cute so we decided to give them a try this past Wednesday. The menu looked good and the reviews were positive so we had high hopes. Since this was our first time, we both went with the basic ramen. She had clear and I had the miso soup. And we got an order of gyoza and a couple bottles of Asahi. The food was decent and the servers were attentive so I left a pretty generous tip. You may be asking why the low rating then? Well, (takes deep breath) let me elaborate. I am very paranoid when it comes to my finances so I check my online accounts multiple times a day. On Thursday morning I am checking my account to review my recent charges and lo and behold, there are unauthorized fraudulent charges on my account. They were for beauty store and yoga wear purchases. Now, I am a male in my 40's so I obviously did not make these purchases. Plus, this was my first time dining out since the pandemic started so this was THE ONLY "out of the ordinary" place I used my credit card. I order everything else online from secure sites. This means someone in the store physically copied my card. So disappointing after leaving the generous tip. Needless to say, I will NOT be returning and I caution anyone else thinking about patronizing this establishment. The food was not worth the headache of having to cancel my card and replace the payment method on numerous accounts. If not for the blatant identity theft this place would've been a solid 3 stars. Now, I wish I could give negative stars and send in the authorities!!!

EDIT (9/6/21) The credit card company has officially closed the case and declared me not responsible for the fraudulent charges. I've included a picture of said charges so you can see which one of your crooked employees likes to shop at these stores. I'm going to take a wild guess and say it's...

This place is actually crazy. With a name like 'ramenya', next door to some Japanese Korean fusion and a crazy fusion menu with laksa ramen and mapo ramen, I was sure this place was not legit. Yet. The whole staff is Japanese from Japan, and it's clearly serving the community because everyone except me and my friend were Japanese or the partner of a Japanese person. A lot of 日本語 in the air. The beer, was perfect. Frosty glass, nitro foam. So satisfying. They don't have tonkotsu ramen unfortunately, but I wanted to test them so I got the next most traditional - shoyu (with extra char sui). It was good, no complaints. I wish the meat was charred and a little thicker but what are you gonna do. It was my friend's birthday and they gave us some ice cream and sang. We also got the chocolate cake and cream brule. Very good. Better than the ramen. I will...

I was disappointed that the pork in my basic ramen entree was lacking flavor and the pork was very fatty. It was small SLICES of three fatty pork. I asked the server if they changed the pork meat and he said it was the same pork but prepared differently. I told him it was so much better in the past. He was kind to give me two slices of pork to make up it but it wasn't as delicious as it used to be. The pork used be served as one big chunk of pork not slices (Note : see past photos posted that shows the chucks of pork). I hope the owner changes back to how it was...