Noodles & Company

Great place to stop by for a quick lunch or dinner. They get your food out pretty quick and it’s tasty! My favorite is the Japanese pan noodles with shrimp. Mmm so good. Thinking about it just makes me want some now! If you’re into carbs, you’ll enjoy this place!

If the food wasn’t so good, I would not come back. Barely acknowledged, no smile, no eye contact, and never a Thank you when I just paid 10 dollars to eat. Five star food, zero service.

Once I got my food it was great but due to either a lack of training or just flightiness, my food took 36 minutes to get to my table.
I did get apologies from multiple employees and a couple freebies but it was still annoying as it was the end of the day and I was getting very very hungry.

I love this place. I wish we had a location in San Antonio.
I got the small pesto pasta with sauteed shrimp added. It had a great flavor and was the perfect amount of food for lunch.

I absolutely love the food here. I had the stroganoff today and it was excellent. The service was super fast even being in the mall of America. I think if if you don’t mind the crowds this is a good place for lunch.

Believe it or not, this was the best meal I had during my stay at Mall of America. I had the Thai curry bowl and it was great. Would definitely eat here again.

I enjoy Noodles regularly, but this location at Mall of America was less than my regular experience. The food was good (I get Japanese pan noodles) but the staff lacked personality. The man working the register didn’t really speak until i I paid and he just said «you’re all set.» When the lady brought the food to my table she didn’t say a word. I thanked her and she walked away without response. Good food but lacked some personality.

I love the restaurant itself, it’s my favorite. The staff was very nice, although, thy didn’t have the flavor Izze I always look forward to. Not a huge deal, though. Also, if you’re looking to go to a quick, relaxing lunch, don’t go to this one inside of mall america. It is packed beyond belief. The line was out the door, but it did move pretty fast. The food also didn’t take long at all. There were a few kids running around and being loud and disrespectful but that’s the parents fault, not the restaurants. The food was extremely good, I loved it. Overall, I recommend this place. It’s just crowded.

The service is exactly what you’d expect it to be. What an incredible disappointment.

I have the noodles with peanut sauce. I added pan seared tofu. It was yummy. The service was great. I would choose this over the more expensive Crave restaurant.

The food was nice and tasty, however ghetto portions of entrees is very horrible, I ordered two portions of so called REGULAR portions of Bangkok Noodles, and they seemed like tasting samples put around a bunch of greens.
The add on soup was the size of a vinegar bowl used in kitchen, guess I could eat 5 spoons.
Compared to the taste and portion size of Pei-​Wei. Noodles company, is not worth it when I eat more greens than the noodles themselves.

The service is great. The employees are friendly. The restaurant is clean. The food, on the other hand, didn’t impress me. I’m a huge fan of Thai food and curry so when I saw curry noodles on the menu I had to try them. The noodles are good but the curry flavoring was way too mild for my tastes. Curry is a very strong spice so there must have been very little in this dish because I could barely taste it.
Great prices. Great service. Bland food.

Order: Wisconsin Cheese steak, Tomato bisque soup, pesto noodles.
Outstanding execution of the cheese steak. Best I have ever had.
I will be coming back! Mmmmm…

I’m only giving this place three stars because their delicious, mouth watering and perfect truffle Mac is seasonal. The buttered noodles and Japanese pan noodles are pretty good too. The service is okay but, there is one guy I always talk to when I’m there and we have a few laughs.

Ran into a desperate situation on New Year’s Day. The mall, along with the food court vendors, had closed early and I was getting cranky from hunger and not willing/​patient enough to tolerate sit-​down dining.
Noodles & Company, which is across from the food court yet has its own storefront, was the only «fast food» joint open just a tad longer. We could not bear the thought of paying for a bowl full of pasta that, even I, a relatively unskilled cook, can boil up at home. So, we got sandwiches:
–The Veggie Med (my order): an array of veggies, some sauteed (i.e. mushrooms) and some not (i.e. spinach), and feta with some white mystery sauce on the side that was a far cry from tzatziki. Not terrible, but not particularly exciting. I choose the cucumber, tomato and purple onion salad. Again, veggies were more or less fresh, but the spices dumped atop could have been more discretely worked into the salad.
–Cheesesteak (bf’s order): Though far from the authentic Pat’s or Geno’s, visibly apparent from the hunks of beef rather than shreds, he’d not be opposed to order it again. Nothing he raved about. Seemed more like a ooey-​gooey cheesey guilty pleasure.
While the food was unremarkable, it was not the edibles that really turned me off. The place struck me as filthy, though it was more a matter of inability to clear/​clean tables quickly enough than hygiene, perhaps due to being short-​staffed. I also found the teens behind the counter less than charming.
Bottom line: If you’ve got no better option, Noodles & Company will suffice.

This place is noodle-​tastic! Delicious, but watch out for the huge portions — I highly recommend the small size.

We had lunch here at the Mall of America Noodles & co. since it had its own dining area, rather than sitting out in the open food court area. While the line here was long and the place looked full, I was amazed at how quickly it moved and how we were able to get a table by the time we placed our order. The service was just as quick and efficient. We sat down and within a few minutes our food was ready. I think the local Noodles back home, though less crowded, could not crank out that kind of throughput. OK, so they have no Coke Freestyle machine since MOA is a Pepsi establishment, but in all, we got our food quickly and were back on our feet walking the mall, just in time for the next people to get a free open table…

I just can’t get enough of Noodles and Company. There is really nothing special about it. In fact, I always get the same thing: Japanese Pan Noodles with a chicken breast on top. I have never tried anything different because I am afraid nothing will live up to the deliciousness that is the Japanese Pan Noodles. It is the right amount of spicy with a hint of cilantro that really jazzes up the flavor.

Throngs of teenaged girls talking about that day’s shopping experience the next table over, while eating so-​so noodles and complaining about boyfriends. That about sums up this particular experience for me at the Noodles & Company on the third floor of the Mall of America. I’m not sure if it’s like this all the time, but eating alongside this demographic made me feel old — very old.
The highlights:
* A single unisex bathroom? Check.
* A relatively small dining area? Yup.
* Decent food for average prices? For sure.
Yes, this is a chain, but it’s nice to see this restaurant as an available option at the MoA. So many other places I looked at were not vegan-​friendly at all, so a nice safe place for me to eat was welcome.
Here are some things I like about Noodles & Company:
* Sriracha hot sauce available.
* Menu is marked with a «V» for vegetarian items.
* Small and regular sizes available.
When I ordered my Bangkok Curry noodles, I was told that «V» stood for vegan. I actually made a quiet Marge Simpson groan when I heard this, because I was pretty sure it meant «vegetarian» which is NOT always vegan. I was so hungry, and my co-​worker was so stressed from the drive over to the mall, that I just took it and prayed. I went back to the official PDF menu just now, and saw that the «V» does, indeed, mean vegetarian, not vegan. Just for the record, the only potentially non-​vegan ingredient in the Bangkok Curry is refined sugar, which isn’t a show-​stopper for me, especially when I’m eating out.
I liked the way this restaurant was bright and cheery, as opposed to some of the other theme restaurants clustered around that area, which seemed dark and gloomy by comparison. Most times, I like to see what I’m eating, and that won’t be a problem for you here. Seating was comfortable, and if you wanted to line up 10 or 15 people and have a group lunch, it seems like they can accommodate you.
So, other than that, a pretty decent experience, especially if you are at the Mall of America anyway.

Wish I had read the reviews before ordering. For asian noodles, we prefer Pei Wei. Our dumplings were just ok. Many frozen varieties available at the grocery store are better. and they are nothing like the fresh ones you would make at home. The pad thai was awful.
But we were hungry and now we are satisfied. Will probably try this restaurant again, because we are moving to St Cloud. While at the mall, we will try other places.