Tea House Noodles

This place definitely serves the need for different tastes. One of the hardest things that restaurants do is trying to meet the needs of everyone, and/​or taking special requests. The Tea House Noodles is geared specifically to individual customers. You can create your own noodle and rice dish. I got a Flat Thai Noodle dish with chicken. It was really good! You got a lot for $ 8.99. The workers are friendly, too.

I way underestimated Tea House Noodles. Since my last review I’ve been in many times and get the Pad Thai NO VEGGIE, which makes all the difference. It is to DIE for and WAY better than Noodlecat. Plus it’s cheap. Rock on Tea House Noodles, rock on.

Friendly and quick service but food is mediocre. I had the noodles with ½ Rica Rica sauce, ½ curry sauce, with chicken. Sauces are decent, but chicken is dry and unseasoned.

I love Tea House Noodles! There are so many combinations of bowls available, you can change it up every year time you go. I love that there are veggie options as well.

I got the veggie bowl with ½ chicken and ½ tofu with rica rica sauce. While I like the healthy food options and great service, the taste was too Western for me. The rica rica sauce is much too sweet for my taste…

I ordered the pad thai. Based on reviews on this site I decided to order it extra spicy with extra sauce. I’m glad I did. Is the pad thai authentic? No. Tasty? Yes. It’s a port in the storm for thai food in Cleveland.

I was looking forward to visiting this place so much, but my visit left me very disappointed. This is a very American establishment that is trying to do its own take on Asian food.
I got the pad thai because that’s my favorite food. When I ordered it, the guy behind the counter let me know that they don’t add eggs or fish sauce to the pad thai because «that’s kind of gross».
When I got my dish (which was very quick, and pretty-​looking), it turns out it was just a bunch of dry noodles in the bottom, with some veggies and sauce tossed on top. Everything had to be mixed together, and nothing was sautéed in a pan together.
No big surprise, the pad thai was not at all what I hoped or expected. It wasn’t terrible, but the sauce was more of like a thin peanut butter that I had to stir into everything.
For $ 8.99, it was really not worth it. Despite my passionate love of both tea and noodles, this place unfortunately left a lot to be desired.

The Rica Rica sauce is awesome!!! One of the many reasons I miss working downtown. The employees are very welcoming. I love the chicken, noodle Rica and highly recommend stopping in. Very fast too.

The Pad Thai was disappointingly bland and tasteless, and the peanut sauce just wasn’t right. While I won’t argue that everything looked and tasted fresh, the food was simply not authentic.

I used to come here quite regularly and for whatever reason I stopped.
Went back today and it was every bit as good as I remember or possibly better.
The people behind the counter are always very friendly.
The food always tastes incredible.
It is a bit of a walk from my job but hopefully time permits for me to start eating here a few times a week.
I can’t imagine why anyone would rate this place less than 5 stars.

Such a nice surprise! We ordered delivery and were amazed at how fast our order arrived. The people are very pleasant and the food is delicious! It is definitely a fusion of Asian influence fused with fresh and healthy. The Pad Thai isn’t traditional, but is a healthy, fresh, and tasty version. The sesame ginger noodle salad is very good and the fresh squeezed limeade was very refreshing!
We will definitely enjoy Tea House Noodles again, before we head home!

The place really disappoints. Their sauces are actually great but the noodles are limp, lackluster, and tasteless. Perhaps I am spoiled because I am from a city where there are some amazing noodle and ramen places but this place is does not come close. I honestly just go there to pick up their side salads (which are awesome) and just skip the noodles all together.

In on quick business… long travel day… too tired for dine in… looking for something downtown that’s healthy, light… Not sandwiches/​pizza or white linen dining. This was perfect! Friendly family business, and the strawberry mango smoothie was awesome! They deliver, or half a block from 5^th Street Arcade.

Omg, what can I say… so delicious. Staff are always pleasant, location is clean and easy to get to. Conveniently located in downtown and in uptown. The Asian chicken chili is a reason to live. Teahouse Noodles is one of my favorite things in Cleveland. :)

I don’t even know why this place has noodle in its name, the noodles weren’t even very good. The sauces were mediocre at best. It all seemed very corporate. Have some self respect and find Asian food made by Asians not hipsters.
Then again if you are just looking for something quick to eat with an «Asian flair» because you are multicultural and sophisticated like that, don’t because the only one you’re fooling is yourself.

So I’ve been working downtown for about a year now and I’ve tried only a few places (I tend to pack my lunch most days) but whenever I go for a walk, I walk past Tea House Noodles. This little (and I mean little) spot is located on East 6^th street and you wouldn’t think anything of it if you just were walking by. I’ve been told its pretty good by colleagues so I figured I would treat myself today.
After the short walk to the restaurant, I walked in and there were 3 employees working. The spot has a very small amount of tables and it would be crowded if there were more than 3 parties eating in there, so I opted to take it back to my office. The menu is displayed on the wall to your right when you walk in and essentially you are given 3 choices noodle/​rice/​veggie/​Pad Thai-​sauce-​protein. I went with the noodle/​rica-​rica sauce/​chicken combo and it ran me $ 8.49 (which I felt was a fair price). I also was greeted promptly and to be honest my meal was ready in less than 1 minute, which scared me a little bit. I had also already checked out the menu before I came and I had already decided what I was going to order.
Luckily, the food was tasty, I’m of Asian descent so I really expect a lot comparing it to my mother’s cooking but my meal was pleasant. The noodles were a flat thai noodle, which was almost clear in color and had an al dente bite. The rica-​rica sauce was orange in color and packed a tiny bit of heat and you get the taste of ginger as well (I very much enjoyed this sauce). The vegetables were fresh but all were not cooked to the same consistency which was disappointing. What was not disappointing was that there were lots and lots of different types of vegetables (water chestnuts, pea pods, green onion, carrots and lettuce accompanied mine). The chicken was bland though, not bad tasting but not what I was hoping for.
Overall if Unilocal offered half stars I would give this establishment a 3.5, unfortunately I don’t round up so it gets a 3. I thought my meal was a good portion for the price, the speediness of getting my meal was great but just adding some more flavor to the chicken would make for a better dish overall. The employees working were nice and friendly as well which you don’t see at a lot of downtown restaurants in my opinion. This isn’t a bad place for a quick lunch and I will be back (most likely to try the Pad Thai).

Awesome people, awesome food. So helpful and patient with my delivery order questions and the delivery guy was really pleasant. The prices were great and they did a great job keeping things we were allergic to out of condiment choices and salads. Officially our new fave.

I think I like the atmosphere of that place better than the food. noodles are just noodles… I would add a variety… Also, there is no way to opt for a certain kind of veggies… They come pre mixed. I added chicken, which was just a plain chicken. I gave it two tries and now I know it’s just not for me. But the people who work there are super awesome!

We order out for Thai food on a weekly basis so have a high standard to compact to. The noodle tea shop had excellent food, fresh, nicely spiced, yummy. Only the Pad Thai was below expectation. Everything else was really excellent and so, so, so affordable. Go there if you can!

Well not sure why some give this place low marks. It’s as advertised and its «GOOD»!
Had dinner and this is a solid 4-​stars for the following reasons:
— Good selections
— Good pricing
— Great food
This place offers a nice selection of carnivores treats, and vegetarian alike. The sauces and combinations are endless in making your meal special and to your own taste. I got the rice bowl and teriyaki sauce and the sweet steamed bun. Added the homemade limeade and this meal went from a typical Asian to heavenly bliss. Those that say this is a healthy place are right it offers an alternative to typical fried and bathed in oil food. It’s not fancy, it is just good unpretentious food at a good price.
I ate well and did not feel I needed to go out and get more to eat. I suggest proteans chicken and shrimp combo. Going to Tea House Noodles is well worth the effort to get there with the construction in the area, and eat a good meal.

My favorite lunch spot. I seriously crave the Pad Thai eveytime I work in Cleveland. Always super fast and always super delicious. They also do curb side pick up, just call and order and they will bring it out to your car!

Just got food here for the first time. I went in knowing that it had gotten high reviews, but not much else. I asked for some help figuring out what I wanted. The woman was super helpful and really was able to key in on my tastes. They let you sample the sauces, which is super helpful when you really just don’t know what to get. I ended up with a noodle bowl with rica rica and coco-​ginger and shrimp. Great balance of flavor and price!

I picked this place because it was close to the Hyatt, where I was staying. The reviews were all really high so I was excited to go but was pretty let down. Maybe it’s because I know what Asian food should taste like? It was generally healthy, which I liked but that is one of the few things I liked about it.
*service: pretty good. I went later in the lunch hour but it was so busy. They got the food to me quickly which was good. They seemed haphazard but overall they were very nice.
*pad thai: tasted nothing like real pad thai. It was a peanut sauce which was good, but not pad thai. The chicken was dry and bland. All together it tasted fine but I wouldn’t order it again.
*regulars: a lot of regulars were coming in, which was nice to see. This place seems like a staple in the area.
*authenticity: not at all. I get what the word fusion means, but it wasn’t fusion… and it wasn’t Asian.
I wish I liked it more. The regulars seem to like it so maybe they know what to order and I don’t. Or maybe we just have completely different tastes…

Overpriced «health» food. That’s what this is. This is an asian restaurant that is cashing in on the health movement within Cleveland (and elsewhere of course) and doing so kinda lazily.
The food isn’t executed well… from the noodles, the broths, spices… just the execution… hell the recipes.
Could it be good? Yes. All they need to do is lower their prices 20−30% and revamp their recipes a little bit. Just my take on one visit.

Oh my gosh — if this place existed in Orlando I would eat here all the time. I’m iffy on noodle bowl places because they’re usually either all noodles or too manufactured to have any flavor. Tea House is neither, and I am in love.
One thing that turns me off about little places like this is when you walk in and don’t know exactly what you’re doing and what you want, they treat you like dirt. The staff were so far from that — warm, inviting, and made you feel like you were a regular (I watched them with several other first timers and regulars and everyone got the same level of excellent care).
I ordered a lot because I knew I’d want food for a few days in my hotel room since I wasn’t going to be leaving much. I tried the standard pad thai, a noodle bowl with the ginger-​coconut broth and chicken, and two of the vegetable steamed buns, plus the fresh limeade.
The ginger coconut broth had a wonderful flavor and just enough so it wasn’t soupy but wasn’t dry either. It infused into the noodles so well that I’m sure it’s just going to taste better as I eat it the next few days. The bowl was huge, too, and a good balance of noodles, well cooked veggie mix, and tender, moist chicken. Very mild spice, but didn’t warrant any additional sriracha as I didn’t want to ruin the delicate coconut sweetness and bitter ginger.
The pad thai was just as delicious, a bit more on the creamy peanut side, but again, too flavorful to add more heat. Freshness just as outstanding there, too, the tofu was nice and firm.
I won’t say much about the veggie buns — they’re frozen packaged, but good quality and they were steamed perfectly, so I’ll give them a thumbs up anyway. I mainly used them as a vehicle to try two of their other sauces that piqued my interest — the curry and the famous Rica Rica. The curry was probably my only complaint — a bit sour and just not pleasing to me. The Rica Rica is a version of your standard sweet thai chili sauce with a hidden kick. Not something I’d call hot, but a pleasing little tingle that went well with the sweetness. I can see why they bottle and sell it — I just might pick up a bottle after I’m done here.
The limeade was just as fresh as claimed.
The whole bill came to $ 23 and I will be able to easily get 3 – 4 meals out of this. The bowls are huge and packed to the brim, the buns are huge — I will have happy leftovers!
So hey, if you guys are reading this, you made the night before all my medical tests much better with your tasty food and hospitality. If you ever want to relocate to Orlando I will totally support you!