Noodles & Company

I tried their pad thai again because it was part of a free catered event and the dish is much improved with more sauce and flavor. Their other noodles are not bad.

Great spot for lunch; but often very busy with no where to sit so i usually get to go.
If you don’t like your pasta seemingly dry, you should order extra sauce.
Also the parm crusted chicken is very dry!

Great location if you don’t mind the wait. If you’re in a rush, don’t come here. It’s not worth the wait if you have a short lunch break.
Other than that, the wait staff is very friendly. I forgot to take my table number but the girl who took my order recognized my face and served me just fine. There is also plenty of seating

Came here with some friends and had the pad thai with shrimp and chicken It was really good and reasonably priced and they had plenty of outdoor seating which was perfect for a July evening. I will definitely come back here the next time I am in the Twin Cities and try one of their Italian pastas.

I tried their Mac and cheese dishes before and they were not that great and it was just tiring to eat them.
I also tried their pad thai here before, and it’s not really that great either.
BUT I do love their pesto cavatappi! I eat it with sriracha to add more flavor! It’s the only thing I get from Noodles.
It gets super busy here during lunch and dinner where the line is long and the wait take a little while, but not too long.

I have always loved the food here but now am also in awe of the manager and staff. I went there last Friday at noon and it was packed. There was a big event going on nearby with hundreds of high school students. The manager worked with the staff to get everyone their food very quickly and he was friendly and calm throughout it all. Kudos!

The food prices are comparable to fast food and the quality of noodles is also comparable. Pad thai noodles are served in a clump, which is a red flag in sit down restaurants.

Noodles is satisfying, but nothing amazingly special.
I stopped in here when I was grocery-​less the other day, my first time being at their changed location (they used to be down the street). It was post a Corepower sculpt session and I was tired, sweaty, and hungry and just wanted to go home.
I’m big on pad Thai (who isn’t), and ordered that with chicken. Tasted great as usual.
My only complaint is that someone in the kitchen shouted something about how «Matt was okay with waiting extra» as one of the cashiers asked about it. «Look, Matt is fine with waiting,» Well, yeah, I guess… but I’m tired, sweaty, and hungry and would like to go home. Not a big deal… but if you would have just been quiet I wouldn’t have even noticed.
There’s better places on campus, for sure, but it’s worth a visit every once in a while. Probably the best pad Thai on campus (but venture outside for better).

When you boil it down (get the pun?) this chain of stores is basically a variety noodle parlor.
Mac and Cheese, Spaghetti and Meatballs, Thai Tofu Noodle Salad, Pad Thai, Mushroom Cream etc. Nothing is amazing, but its a great value and all the dishes can be customized how you like them.
The ingredients are simple, the food is fresh, and it tastes great. At the location we went to the man behind the counter told us the story of how he has been working at Noodles for years now, and knows how to say every ingredient in every dish in a few different languages, from talking to the different people passing ordering.
I enjoyed eating here and wish that they would open a Noodles and Company in the Bay Area in California so I could go more often.

Noodles is one of the best chain restaurants out there. Their food is quite delicious; try the penne rosa if you don’t believe me. This specific Noodles is kind of awkward. Seating is very limited, but there is more space downstairs. I just wish that they were more like the Midway Noodles. Wait time is usually a few minutes, so I like to order online ahead of time. The Midway Noodles has a take-​out pick-​up register. So you don’t have to wait in line when your food is already ready. Stadium Village Noodles does not have this option, so you have to wait in line with everybody else who hasn’t even ordered yet while your food gets even colder.
Sign-​up to get a birthday freebie! You get a free bowl up to $ 7.50, man do I love free stuff for my birthday…

Went in for my annual Noodlegram/​free bowl of birthday noodles on Tuesday. The gal behind the counter comped the whole meal, which was rad — I thought I was going to have to pay for the tofu add-​on and the flat bread. Not so!
Communication between the counter and the kitchen seemed good, and everyone who handled my order knew exactly what I had asked for. I was totally excited to get back to work and devour my food.
From the moment I got back to the office, it was chaos in a bag. The butter had melted and popped open, spilling molten butter inside the bag and on me when I opened it. The noodles had all of the things ON them that I asked be removed, and I ended up with a stray piece of chicken from another order — potentially a dirty pan was used?
I felt like a jerk writing a comment to the company about my free birthday noodles, but enough had gone wrong, and I certainly would have complained if I had paid. Within a couple of hours, Nikki, the manager, gave me a call and promised to make it right.
Today, being Thursday, I went back for my replacement birthday bowl of Japanese pan noodles. I used their awesomely user-​friendly online ordering system, and the noodles were ready and waiting when I arrived. The manager even recognized me, and took a peek in the bowl to ensure things were correct.
That leaves me where I am now: digging in to my delish birthday lunch and enjoying ever minute of it. I was a regular patron of this location when I went to college, and I’ll be back for sure. Thanks, Nikki!

I love Noodles & Company! Placing your order is usually pretty fast, even where there is a lunch rush during the weekdays. The customer service is usually great! With All of the foot traffic t this particular location gets, this location is pretty speedy and the shift leaders do a pretty good job delegating tasks when it gets busy! The only times where it gets a tiny bit slower (placing an order and time to receive your order) is when a big group comes in that has never been there before (there are often lots of tourists from different states, countries etc. visiting campus) and on Gopher Football game days. Like others have said, I wish there was more sauce, however if you usually ask for more, it’s not a problem getting more sauce, spice/​heat etc. As for parking, if you are lucky enough to find parking, bring quarters and pay attention to the street signs for tow-​away zone days and times!
In previous posts about this location/​Noodles & Company in general, people have said that they aren’t impressed with the Pad Thai. My take on it; if you want authentic Pad Thai GO TO A THAI restaurant. Their Pad Thai is pretty bland, which I am guessing may be to satisfy the standard American Palate.
Their new line of sandwiches is also pretty good! I suggest the meatball sandwich or the Wisconsin cheesesteak sandwich (however the cheesesteak sandwiches meat can be pretty tough sometimes)! My favorite noodle entrée there is the Japanese Pan Noodle Dish.
FYI: Light rail construction is currently going on! Aka finding a parking spot on campus, let alone at this location makes finding a spot very difficult!

Y’know what? It ain’t gourmet, but it is delicious. The mac and cheese is perfect for a hangover, and the indo peanut sautee is frickin amazing (add shrimp!). They now offer sandwiches which are also delicious.
Fast, reasonably priced, fairly tasty… count me in. I heart Noodles.

Good fresh food. Very clean and nice atmosphere. Fast service and priced reasonably.
This is not Thai food, but their own take on several types of dishes with noodles incorporated. I loved all the flavors but they were a tad on the bland side. Double that flavor and 5 stars!
Oh, don’t park on the street mon-​fri 3−6pm. I watched six cars get towed while I was eating!

After my favorite place for pad thai closed I head from a friend that they had it at Noodles and Co. I kind of wish I had never heard that and could just live with the sweet memory of the pad thai I used to love. I completely agree with the others here who say that there is hardly any sauce on these noodles. I ordered shrimp with my pad thai and I think there were 3 – 4 pieces in the whole thing. the whole thing was flavorless and bland. Boo.

I love Noodles. They are by far my favorite fast food restaurant (I classify fast food by, well, the food coming quickly). The ingredients are fresh and I have only been disappointed once… when my japanese pan noodles came with hardly any sauce! Someone else mentioned this, and I agree. The sauce is not as plentiful as it used to be a few years ago. I will probably ask for extra sauce next time I do in there because I got my birthday noodlegram! Which reminds me…
Sign up for their e-​mail list. They rarely send you anything besides coupons for free/​bogo noodles. I can’t complain.
The place is fast, clean clean clean, the pan noodles are freakin’ noodlegasmic, and the price is moderate. I crave the crap out of japanese pan noodles… dang. They’s yummy.

Dude! What’s going on with the pesto?
Steve is dead-on…they have been trying to skimp more and more on the sauce since they first opened. Perhaps Noodles and Co. is attempting to get closer to its roots by removing all extraneous flavors and just serving boiled sauce-​less noodles.
Whatever the reason, it is not worth 6 – 7 bucks for boiled pasta.
My latest experience with Noodles includes the following:
–boiled pasta with no sauce, this one was called «Pad Thai», I did spot a bean sprout and a carrot that looked like it was on its last leg. The carrot might have been from 1972.
–burned tasteless potstickers.
–I wanted to drink the spicy soy sauce straight from the cup, just to get some flavor in my meal.
boooo. This is coming from a reviewer who used to fill up those «buy 10 get 1 free» cards once a month. 5 years ago Noodles and Co. was my best friend and lover. All I can say now is «Eek! Methinks not.»

After arriving in Minneapolis at the end of Dec. a very good friend gave me a coupon for a free bowl of noodles at this newly opened location. I was in that area yesterday so I stopped in and had lunch.
Great service, and the spicy peanut noodles with chicken were really great and had a nice kick to them. It’s affordable and tasty with quite a lot of varieties to choose from. It’s a great alternative to Subway, Quiznos and that ilk. I’ll be back to try the buttered noodles and the stroganoff. Probably need to check out the one near Lake Calhoun which is closer to my neighborhood.

I was moving into my new place near Cedar Ave and totally unfamiliar with the area. I had heard friends (albeit suburban-​dwellers) rave about Noodles & Co – especially their macaroni and cheese. I happen to be a life-​long mac and cheese lover so I figured this would hit the spot. I ordered tofu on top since I felt the need for extra protein after moving all those heavy boxes.
Before this experience, I was under the impression that all macaroni and cheese was good. I thought there was good and there was incredible but bad macaroni and cheese did not exist my world prior to Noodles & Co.
Let’s imagine it together in bullet-​point format:
–overcooked, soggy noodles completely devoid of taste
–watery, flavorless, eerily pale sauce that could have easily been the runoff from a yellow watercolor dish
–dry, untoasted breadcrumbs heaped on top and making up at least half of the container’s volume
–tofu soft and raw, unpressed and adding to the watery mess beneath it
In a word: FLAVORLESS.
After just one week of living in the area, I could name off 15 more appealing places you could go to fill your stomach, 14 of which have food.

I admit that I visit Noodles & Co occasionally. I almost always order the same thing — Indonesian Peanut Sauté with tofu and shitake mushrooms instead of carrots. In the past, I’ve tried the Japanese pan noodles, the pad thai, thai curry soup, mushroom stroganoff, mediterranean salad, and the Wisconsin mac & cheese. Obviously, I like the Indonesian peanut sauté the best. Do NOT get pad thai from this place. It’s disgusting. The other dishes weren’t disgusting, but they weren’t very good either. I thought the mushroom stroganoff was dry. and mac & cheese is easy to make at home. Theirs doesn’t taste special so I don’t know why anyone would order it more than once (the first time is to test it out).
This place seems to always be busy. I’ve never been here when there hasn’t been a line … and yet they always seem to get my order correct, unlike the Noodles & Co by my house. Kudos to them for that.