LAN NOODLE
Restaurant · West Hollywood
7100 Santa Monica Blvd SUITE 130, West Hollywood, CA 90046
Highlights
Hand-pulled noodles, Xiao Long Bao, and dumplings served fresh
Hand-pulled noodles, Xiao Long Bao, and dumplings served fresh
"Offered as another option for hand-pulled noodles, operating locations in West Hollywood and the San Gabriel Valley." - Rebecca Roland
"LAN Noodle first opened in Arcadia in 2019 and takes great care to make a Lanzhou-style beef noodle soup. Staff use a combination of beef and chicken bones for LAN’s broth, including 28 herbs and those very special hand-pulled noodles. The West Hollywood outlet opened in September 2023 and stays busy throughout the week. It’s a gamechanger for WeHo, with a legit Chinese operator in the same complex as Target and Best Buy, just a block away from the legendary Formosa on the corner of Santa Monica Boulevard and La Brea." - Mona Holmes
"Lan Noodle is a powerhouse for Lanzhou-style noodles and each bowl is made to order. Customers can watch the noodle master pull eight different shapes while throwing the strands over their shoulders and into a pot of boiling water. Each type of noodle requires a special kind of wheat flour to get the perfect QQ (chewy) texture. Lan sources local beef to make a broth that is simmered for 10 hours and topped with house-made chile oil. The restaurant recently expanded to West Hollywood." - Kristie Hang
"The Westside of Los Angeles isn’t known for its Chinese food prowess compared to what’s available further east, but a crop of notable options have opened in recent years, including Lan Noodle. The restaurant first took Arcadia by storm in 2019 with its pitch-perfect bowls of Lanzhou beef noodle soup paired with hand-pulled noodles. Both the broth — simmered for the better part of the day with 28 herbs and spices — and the eight different noodle shapes have carried over to the spacious West Hollywood location, along with a wide selection of cold and hot appetizers, dumplings, and fried rice. Order one of the “signature” or “dry” noodles and select a noodle shape to go with it. Whether thin or thick, round or flat, and even triangular, it’s impossible to go wrong at Lan. Watch the masterful noodle pullers behind the glass counter for dinner and a show. — Cathy Chaplin, senior editor" - Eater Staff
"Lan Noodle greets you with a show. Traditional Mandarin songs pour from the speakers, clangs of stock pots fill the dining room, and a chef calmly swinging strands of dough stands behind a kitchen window. There are eight noodle shapes to choose from, which puts most noodle spots to shame. The signature Lan noodles come with thin slices of melt-in-your-mouth beef, buttery soft radish, and a generous scoop of chili oil, all submerged in beef broth. For a creamier and nuttier broth, the Lanzhou Street Noodles stand out from the usual suspects—instead of beef stock, the vegetarian-friendly broth is enriched with peanut and sesame paste. And if you’re closer to the Westside than the SGV, Lan Noodle also has a location in West Hollywood. photo credit: Matt Gendal" - Kat Thompson
