Noodles & Company

Always love coming to this place. The staff is nice and the food is great. Japanese pan noodles

I love noodle and company!!! Amazing food, amazing service! I would recommend to anyone! Quick, easy and delicious!

I love Noodles and Company. I’m a huge lover of pasta and noodles, and they have a ton of options. They are always adding new items to their menu as well. Example: the new Thai curry bowl that didn’t exist a year ago. I usually get the Japanese pan noodles with shrimp or the Alfredo Monta more with chicken. My whole family loves to come here for a quick lunch

i recieved a free bowl for my birthday and i went there for lunch yesterday. the food was amazing!!! and i also loved the fountain drinks, i had a fanta vanilla orange drink then a fanta peach drink. soooo delicious! i will be going back again!

Typical Noodles menu, but what sets this one apart is the wonderful staff. There was one woman in particular who made my day with how cheery and helpful she was. If it’s between this one and the University District one, I’d suggest this one!

Good place for fast food with healthier options. The margarita flatbread and curry soup with tofu are my favorite. Also the Asian crunch salad is pretty darn good.
Decent prices and nice staff.

Pleased with their gluten free options. The staff is very nice and the service is wonderful. The food comes out quickly and we enjoy it each time. This location has a freestyle Coke machine which is pretty cool as the options for drinks are endless!

Love this place… It’s my go-​to when I’m craving pasta but not in the mood to hit up a full blown restaurant. The pasta fresca oaths best!

I ordered lunch for my work team from here because it offered variety and looked healthy. We also loved the different portion sizes that included calorie count. But the service and staff are what will get me to come back. These lovely ladies helped me out in a bind. I won’t go into details. But they show me that good, kind people still exist. And apparently, they work at Noodles & Company in Grandview! Kudos to the very generous and understanding staff. I WILL be back ladies.

Pretty good! Love that I can eat gluten free here and fast! I actually really liked it!

I wish I could choose 2.5 stars. Came here to try something new (I just moved to columbus) and was very disappointed. The service was not great, there were no kids meals, and the food was very bland and included very little meat. So to me this place was not worth the money. I would guess that if you like more mild flavors and didn’t want any meat with your dish then this would be ok. For my family, this place didn’t make the cut.
Service…she came to the big menu and asked if we had been there before to which we replied no. She just briefly said you pick your flavor and can add meat for an extra cost. I guess we are just used to more conversation or suggestions when we visit a place for the first time.
Food…We ordered 4 different things, 3 noodle bowls and one salad to get a variety. Pad Thai — definitely not pad Thai and very light in flavor. The chicken rosa — almost no sauce and hardly any chicken. I can’t remember the names of the other dishes, but they were all so bland. One was a Mac and cheese type, I want to say it had a BBQ sauce on it. I don’t like plain pasta so having very little sauce doesn’t appeal to me. My kids love food and will eat just about anything from sushi and oysters to ribs and sauerkraut. We had to force them to eat their food bc they just didn’t like it, any of it. We tried to trade dishes with them to let them eat something they liked and the only thing my youngest ate was the salad.
It may have been an off day, I don’t know. I will usually try a place a few times before I make a decision. In this case I won’t waste my money again. I see this place has some good reviews so I’m sure they have a lot of fans, I’m just not one of them.

Noodles & Co was a very average experience in many ways. It wants to be the Asian Chipotle but leaves much to be desired. For the food you get (mainly noodles), it seems a little overpriced.
I got the Japanese Pan Seared noodle bowl with steak and it was serviceable but nothing to write home about. The noodles had a very nice consistency but the steak seemed over cooked.
With all the great local eateries around Columbus, I don’t see me going back again. The biggest bright spot was the future Coke machine that allows you to add a number of different flavors to your favorite soda.

Ok, Noodles, I must admit, you are in the running for my fave fast food joint. Neck and neck with Chipotle. And when you keep adding awesome menu items, like super yummy lettuce wraps, for $ 2.99, how can I possibly resist?
Though I’m always wary of nutritional facts (I don’t know why, I just am), I like that Noodles offers calorie counts for all of their dishes, and they have small printed menus that give you suggestions if you are trying to limit carbs, calories, gluten, etc.
My favorites on the menu: Indonesian Peanut (a bit spicy, but great), Penne Rosa (Um, holy crap, is this really available at a fast food joint) with feta and extra mushrooms, spinach, and maters. And now, my ultimate favorite– the lettuce wraps. Fresh, light, packed with flavor, and surprisingly filling for 230 calories and 3 bucks.
If you’re looking for a fresh, quick, and cheap lunch, just go to Noodles already!

I’ve had a long time on-​again off-​again love affair with Noodles & Co. The food is consistently good and the staff is always friendly, but it gets expensive fast and I’m supposed to be eating predominantly gluten-​free. That isn’t to say they don’t have some gf options, because they do, but only ever being able to eat one or two of their dishes makes it hard to return with any frequency. They do have some huge and hugely delicious rice krispies treats, one of those magic flavor soda machines, beer, and some great pasta though.

IMO, Noodles & Co serves a useful purpose of offering something for everyone and doing so efficiently and affordably. There’s not many places where you can order both Asian and Italian. In that respect it’s a good place. However if you really want great Asian or great Italian, I think there are far better offerings elsewhere.
However it works for quick and basic noodles and a wide variety of choices. So it’s a good choice for lunch or a quick informal dinner.

Boring Flavors
I have had Noodles & Company a few times and each experience was the same: boring. The flavors just don’t do anything for my taste buds. I get the big pasta noodles and what do they taste like? plain noodles.

So the first stop of my birthday freebie-​palooza turned out to be Noodles & Co. For those of you who may not know, if you sign up for their email list, you’ll get a coupon for one free bowl (up to $ 9, which covers most of their menu items) good anytime during the month of your birthday. They’re pretty good about not bombarding you with emails, too.
On to the meal… I arrived toward the end of lunch (around 1:30pm), and the location was looking a little worse for wear when I first walked in. Floors needed swept, etc. I think the poor employees were just catching their breath, because as I sat at the table I noticed that they started moving around, sweeping floors and wiping down tables, etc.
I ordered the small pasta fresca with grilled chicken & mushrooms, fountain drink, and one of those huge rice krispie treats (yum!). The girl taking my order didn’t bat an eye when I presented my coupon, and took it off without any problems (you’d be surprised how often front-​end employees don’t get trained on proper procedure for applying discounts and coupons!). Total cost after coupon = $ 3.50. Awesome.
When I received my food a few minutes later, everything looked fresh, hot, and yummy. The small was definitely enough to fill me up. I should also add that the Columbus Noodles & Co. locations recently added those new mega Coke machines with 100 different options.
Is it a chain? Yup. Is it gourmet food? Heck no! But it’s consistently good. And yes, I know that practically everyone is capable of boiling some pasta and sauteing some veggies in oil. But one day you’ll have a crappy day at work, a kid screaming in the background, and all that’s going through your head is «I cannot even think about dinner right now.» And on those days, Noodles & Company will be there for you.

I don’t have this chain close to my house in the Akron/​Canton area so I enjoy eating here occasionally when I’m in an area that has one. It’s a chain so I don’t get too excited about it, but in my mind it’s better than going to an Applebee’s.
I’ve tried all of the different kinds of Asian noodles and I’ve enjoyed all of them. This particular location is pretty friendly and the service was pretty good.

LOVE me some noodles. Great vegetraian options — Pad Thai does have fish sauce that can’t be ‘removed’
An insider tip: pay $ 1 extra for extra sauce. Trust me!

Blech! Not a very good lunch. For $ 9.50 I got a tiny «Asian chop salad» with no protein and a small ‘Thai soup’ that tasted watery.
The atmosphere of the restaurant was really nice. I wouldn’t mind going there to eat if their food didn’t kinda suck. +1
The staff was pleasant and efficient. +1
But, bottom line, totally mediocre food. The salad was just lame. The regular (larger) size was smaller than the size of a side salad at J. Alexanders. The soup was bland and the noodles were too long to be able to eat with a spoon. I’ve never spun noodles on a fork in a soup bowl until today. It was plain weird. AND $ 9 effing 50 for this? No thanks. Unfortunately, I have $ 15 left on a gift card to use, but maybe I’ll find something that actually is worth eating next time.