Katie S.
Yelp
Unnecessarily expensive lunch? Why, yes, that seems like a great idea! Actually, I normally like Noodles' food despite it's high price. When they do it right, it has great flavor. This visit was just ok. I've found that the easiest things on the menu to screw up are the mac and cheese (just melted cheese on top, no cheese sauce) and the pad thai (sticky noodles, not enough sauce). The mac and cheese wasn't perfect today.
The med salad is one of my go to favorites (there are noodles! in the salad!) and for some reason it had no dressing today. Arg.
I also tried the springtime flatbread which was supposed to have asparagus, mushrooms, and cheese on it. Technically it had all three, but it looked like a 6 year old assembled it. There was unfortunately nothing functioning as a sauce either, so one bite and all the toppings fell right off.
It was all still fine, just not as good as I know it could be. The staff were friendly enough, although there were 4 people in the restaurant including ourselves and 8 workers. It seemed excessive...but maybe not since we had to wait to get our order taken and the people in front of us had to wait 10 minutes for their soup.
My biggest complaint is that they made changes to the wall menu layout. It used to have descriptions of what all was in each dish, with little chili peppers to let you know if it was spicy. They've now changed the menu so it's a picture of the dish with general nutrition information under it. I'm not really opposed to the picture, but it's far enough away that you can't really see it anyway and there's no more description of what's in it!! AND, this particular location didn't have the take out menus which I'm hoping would still contain that information. I know it's pretty common practice in some other parts of the world to order based on pictures, but for an American chain, this is just silly. Tell me what's in the dish, don't make me guess.
Also, they used to have a plain flatbread or ciabatta roll side order and those were no where to be found on the menu anymore. Sigh.