"My husband and I tried this location for the first time today. We came for brunch. We were seated right away, but it took awhile for our waiter to come to our table. First off, the music was way too loud. I like to be able to hear the people at my table, and the waiter. The decor of the restaurant is nice, and it doesn’t feel as claustrophobic as their East End Market location. I do wish they had chairs with better backs though. You can’t hang your purse off of the backs of their chairs because they have rounded edges.We tried the fried chicken sando, tuna don, spicy tonkotsu ramen, uni mazemen, and pure milk soft serve ice cream. Let me begin by saying that the fried chicken sando isn’t actually a sando (big disappointment). A sando is defined as Japanese milk bread filled with pork cutlets, eggs, or fruit. It should be meat inside of two pieces of crust less white bread. The fried chicken sando was just a regular chicken sandwich. To be fair, the description on the menu does say potato bread bun, but I do think they should change the name to sandwich. It wasn’t bad. The fried chicken was very crispy, and it was a nice surprise to see that it was dark meat instead of white meat, but I wouldn’t get it again. It was extremely greasy, and not easy to eat. A “sando” would’ve been very clean and easy to eat. Chibi Domu has real sandos, so I expected this location to have real sandos too.The tuna don was delicious! I usually don’t like raw tuna that much, but the tuna was good quality. The watermelon radish had an overpowering flavor, so that was best eaten separately, but I would definitely get this dish again.The spicy tonkotsu ramen was good, although I felt like the spicy flavor overpowered the tonkotsu flavor. Maybe next time I should just get tonkotsu instead. Their chashu is some of the best. It’s juicy and fatty. I was disappointed that they didn’t have the black garlic oil add-on.The uni mazemen wasn’t what my husband was expecting, but he did end up liking it. There wasn’t much uni, and the ramen was cooked al dente. The butter sauce and al dente noodles made it seem more like an Italian dish than a Japanese dish.The pure milk soft serve was very strongly flavored and the pretzels really complimented the soft serve. To me, it tasted like butterscotch, and I’m not really a big fan of butterscotch.Our server Aaron was very good. I originally wanted to order the fried chicken sando and the yuzu citrus pepper domu wings, but he informed me that the fried chicken sando and the wings were both yuzu citrus pepper so I was basically ordering the same thing. I ended up not getting the wings because of that, and I appreciated his honesty.I have only been to Domu for the dinner menu, but I wanted to try the brunch menu, and honestly don’t think the brunch menu is worth it. They have so many good dishes that are only offered during dinner, so if I do come back, it’ll be for dinner."
