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The Columbus Dispatch wrote
Noodling around
Tuesday, March 27, 2007
By Barnet D. Wolf
Noodles & Co. has decided on a third central Ohio location and could have five local restaurants open by the end of the year.
The 140-unit chain, based in Boulder, Colo., plans to begin construction sometime this spring on a restaurant at 2110 N. High St. near Lane Avenue, and expects to open in late summer.
The first local Noodles & Co. opened in January at 1390 W. 5th Ave., near Grandview Heights, and is “doing very well,” company spokeswoman Kelly Pascal Gould said.
A second is slated for the shopping center on the former Da Vinci’s Ristorante property at Reed and Henderson roads. Company officials said the chain is close to signing another central Ohio lease and another is in negotiation. Noodles also is close to signing its first lease in Cincinnati.
Website – http://www.noodles.com/
August 10, 2007
Noodles & Co. is following up its Central Ohio debut with a new restaurant near Ohio State University’s campus.
The Boulder, Colo.-based eatery expects to open its third area outlet at 2124 N. High St., just south of Lane Avenue, Aug. 18. Its first Central Ohio restaurant opened in January near Grandview Heights and an Upper Arlington location opened July 6.
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love this place
I went to one of these outside of Chicago a few years ago. It was pretty good. It’ll do really well on campus.
Not a fan, the noodles at least with the asian dishes are way too thick.
overpriced and poor quality and portions
over priced? Now I can see if you don’t like the food sure, but overpriced?
they don’t automatically include meat in the dishes. it’s just an excuse to overcharge. by the time i’ve added my “protein” i would rather have just gone to a more authentic restaurant to pay for a better quality dish.
What kind of prices are we talking here? I’ve never been.
http://www.noodles.com/files/files/NoodlesMenu.pdf
the sizes and quality just are not worth the price
Here’s the PDF of menu at the forthcoming campus locale:
[url]http://www.noodles.com/files/files/NoodlesMenu.pdf[/url]
You’re basically looking at around $6-9 for a meal, not far off from a ‘combo meal’ at a fast food joint. your basically looking at a Chipotle or Pesto concept.
I eat here all the time when I travel on the road, sometimes multiple times in the same week. I like the Japanese Pan Noodles and the Thai Curry Soup. And while I love it when i’m residing in a hotel, i have to be honest that I seldom crave it now that it’s local.
the trio cost pretty much the same as chipotle and you get a meat, a salad and a potion of noodles. It’s just the right amount of food if you ask me, I never leave hungry or feeling over stuffed. And for the same price as chipotle I can’t say that is overpriced.
Hmmm…as a longtime vegetarian, I think of it as finally not being overcharged when I order something without meat. To each his own I guess.
No, this place is awful. I went to the one in Grandview and asked the assistant manager which of three dishes he thought was the best. I went with his recommendation, something on the asian menu, and it was unfinishable. Tasted like everything had high fructose corn syrup in it or something. Totally bogus, totally fake. There are PLENTY of places to get cheap noodles in town, mostly run by locals who know how to do asian when they’re doing asian, or italian when they’re doing Italian. I’ll never eat pasta from Denver again.
fitz hit it right on
I’ve eaten here two days in a row and I love it. I could get addicted.
It’s all about the Indonesian Peanut Saute w/chicken.
I made the error of eating at Noodles & Co….or maybe my error was too-high expectations.
On a counter person’s recommendation I had the beef and noodles w/”mushroom” gravy.
The noodles were wide, thick and perfectly cooked. However, they were obviously pre-cooked and washed for storage…so there was no sauce on God’s green that stood a chance of adhering to ‘em.
The “mushroom” sauce had 4 or 5 mushroom slices and sat soup-like at the bowl bottom. Endless stirring did not help sauce adhesion..so I was eating bland egg noodles that had passed through a sauce without picking up flavor.
The meat was servicable, but cheap and tough.
I left 3/4 of my bowl full and wondered where I was going to go for an actual meal.
While asking others what they thought of the place, the consensus was “I waited in line for this shit?”
I’m presuming that those who profess to liking this place are under the same group psychosis that makes Canadians think that Tim Horton’s is somehow good.
Odd.
Glad I’m not the only one who hates Noodles & Co….
I haven’t tried it, even though it is pretty close to where I work. When I first saw them putting it in, I thought it would be an Asian place, kind of like Oodles of Noodles. When I looked up the menu on-line, though, I got a little scared…guess I’m just not convinced a place like that can do Asian and Italian and American comfort food and so on well at the same time.
What I’ve read on here hasn’t really changed my mind about giving it a try…
me likey a lot!
I’ve only been once – had the Japanese Pan Noodles w/ tofu. I thought it was very tasty!