Noble Eatery

Love this local eatery. Limited but inspired menu of fresh and delicious daily items. Loved the watermelon water. Helpful staff who are willing to adjust their menu for the picky eater. They bake and sell their bread onsite. Yum!

Basis for my starred ratings (which skews heavily to the food or drink):
1 star: Never again.
2 stars: Poor food, poor experience, extraordinary measures in order for me to come back.
3 stars: Average, nothing really special, nothing particularly bad.
4 stars: Very good, would definitely return.
5 stars: A favorite, one of the best.
I’m going to start with the main negative about this place. Parking here is the absolute worst. If you come at any busy time, the basically 6 spots out front will not do. And when it’s crowded, getting in and out can be a bear.
That being said, the food is excellent. Menu changes daily. Salads, sandwiches, soups, and smorgas (open faced sandwiches basically.) Sometimes some other bites, sometimes some collaboration dishes, always organic and locally sourced.
I have enjoyed all his sandwiches but my favorites have been his collaborations with Little Miss BBQ and his use of their meat. These are excellent. The best smorga that I ever had was topped with a crab meat salad, also delicious. His bites are typically some warmed vegetable dish but varies and I’ve never been disappointed in them. Frankly, I’ve never really been disappointed in any dish here, just underwhelmed sometimes.
So, despite the parking situation, I reluctantly tell people about this place and tell them to come often, despite the worsening of the parking situation for me. Delicious, local food needs to be supported.

Fresh made here bread and the food is on point. Large portions with unbelievable flavor. Also the ambiance is one of kind with custom local made creations from Urban Southwest! If you are in the area don’t miss this place. The reviews say it all!

The best tuna sandwich of my life! Today’s menu included an open-​faced tuna sandwich on delicious fresh bread, and the tuna had fingerling potatoes, cannellini beans, and spelt mixed in with olive oil and a bit of onions. Wonderful.
The grapefruit lemonade was a really fun treat
My new favorite Phoenix lunch spot.

After my eyes were opened about the bread we consume from the Cooked series on Netflix, I am very thankful for this place.

Always outstanding quality ! simple, tasty, fresh Creations, prepared daily by passionate people. Supporting local a business owner/​proprietor with passion and care for not only taste and quality but your health.
It’s no wonder there’s always a line I guess that’s the price of popularity.
But it certainly is worth the wait!

Sandwiches embody the Italian three to five perfectly matched ingredient philosophy. The bread is outstanding. Cannot wait to try the salads and smorgas. Thank you Claudio and team!

Delicious food. Tried their burrata toast with arugula and prosciutto and grapefruit water. Very fresh and delicious. Portions are small but quality of bread and toppings are unmatched. Only thing that could be better is customer service. A smile of owner’s face or people serving would go a long ways in making the experience perfect.

The open face burratta, as well as the avocado smash, are indulgent options — even for foodies. Their menu provides basics and that’s the point: crusty bread and fresh ingredients. We are quite lucky to have the Noble Eatery in town & prices reasonable compared to the scrutiny and care that they do for their bread and veggie accompaniments.

First stop on our valentines tasting trek, my lady and I had a Vegetali. (Description in the pictures.) let me start off with how fantastic the bread is. Grainy, fluffy with a slightly crunchy exterior, it is wood fire baked. The sandwich had roasted and pickled Anaheim chiles, mushrooms, and greens. It coupled with a small side salad with what appeared to be heirloom tomatoes. The house lemonade was mild and sweet.
The owner was very personable, and equally as excited to talk about our love of food. He even gave us some veg friendly suggestions for our next stops.

Ambiance: Smallish urban café/​bread shop. Has about 6 tables indoor (some communal) and two outdoor tables. Patrons range mostly from the hipsters and business exec crowd. Parking is a little tight but manageable.
Food: Excellently prepared sandwiches (Ham, Salome, Veggie etc) in pita bread form. The breads used are excellent and can be seen being made in the wood fired brick oven behind the counter. Menu offers salad and soup options as well. All the ingredients used are usually high end culinary choices with a bent to Mediterranean cuisine. Veggie options exist as well.
Price: As to be expected the prices here reflect the high end culinary choice ingredients. Average sandwich was $ 10.50 (includes small salad)

Where along the line did the human race change the most important element to survive [Food] to become anything other than healthy?
Thank goodness for this spot. Simple food. Simple recipes with the day’s available ingredients and not the same menu everyday. No chemicals, everything made from scratch. So nothing is bad for the body and its digestive system.
Bread is literally made fresh in an «antique» style oven per say. Waited for a spot like this near my work for a while. Eat in and relax, take it to go or my favorite, sit outside and soak up some vitamin D.
Price is reasonable considering the earthy ORGANIC ingredients!
Love it here.

Lovely rustic Italian sandwiches made with wood-​fired breads, fresh local cheeses, veggies and meats; an ever-​changing menu based on local ingredients and the chef’s creative whims.

To start off I am not a huge sandwich guy, so a $ 10 sandwich should be an ethereal gift to get my praise.
My $ 10 tuna «sandwich here» was not quite what one would expect. It was more of a tuna bruchetta plate served on 3 thick slices of rustic bread toast. The tun was a caned oil packed tuna, decent quality but still canned with some nuts and grains. On the texture size the nuts and the bread made it a hit, however on the flavor side it need an acid to balance out the flavors.
My biggest gripe was, that I was still hungry after my $ 10 lunch.

Mr. Claudio has an excellent track record and pedigree and I was certainly excited to try this out. My expectations* going in were a tad high and I was somewhat underwhelmed with my sandwich. That won’t stop me from coming regularly as these are still great sandwiches.
*Something to compete head to head with Pane Bianco

INCREDIBLE SANDWICHES OF THE HIGHEST QUALITY! The only sandwich that I’ve had that even compares to this is at Pane Bianco. This place might even be better. Well done Sir! Easily in the top two best sandwich places in the whole valley.

This is such a great little place! Get here before or after the lunch crowd as the dining area is tiny and parking is limited.
I’ve been here twice and had the sandwich with spicy coppa which is delicious. I’m sure the other menu items are also great but I love this sandwich with a little side salad and homemade lemonade so much I doubt I’ll ever try anything else!

Sometimes when you find great bread, you wanna go straight to the source. The first image that this conjures up for me is the Boudin Bakery in San Francisco. A majestic bakery right on the Wharf serving up delicious artisan breads with their own sit down restaurant to match. Boudin’s bread is legendary and their bread bowl dishes at their in house restaurant are amazing. Noble Bread in Phoenix by comparison is new to the scene, though has gained a city full of loyal followers at local restaurants and farmers markets alike. While their growth has been impressive, so far they still remain just a small scale operation. But like Boudin, Noble is apparently dipping their toes in the factory restaurant biz, but only just a little. I’d heard they’d opened their own lunch nook awhile back, but they’re only a Monday through Friday lunch operation which makes it almost impossible for me to get to. Almost. A day off from the office on a Friday gave me my first opportunity.
As others have described, the space is small. Seating for maybe 20 inside, and maybe 4 outside. Here you order at the counter and they bring it out to you. I should note that the table and chairs feel and sound ancient. The table and chair I sat in made creaking sounds pretty much my entire visit. Didn’t feel like it would collapse or anything, but just know the furniture is probably super old. The menu rotates daily so much of what I’m describing probably won’t be on the menu again for awhile. The front is manned by a pair of guys working a wood fired oven for all the various creations of the day.
From todays menu I decided to go with three items. Their housemade lemonade to drink for starters, plus a cup of their soup of the day, and their stecca of the day (basically a flatbread). The soup of the day had garbanzo beans (lots of them), plus anaheim chiles and farro (basically wheat grains). Pretty much a small cup size as advertised and it came out plenty hot, but surprisingly not spicy despite all the chiles. The soup also came with a slice of delicious rye bread for dipping. I liked the portion of farro and garbanzo beans as I pretty much got a spoonful each time. The stecca for the day was a whole wheat/​rye flatbread mix topped with heirloom tomatoes, mozzarella, and smokey ham. Super fresh tasting dish and I loved the flavor contrast with the smoked ham, though admittedly the portion left me a little wanting. The lemonade was good though nothing really out of the ordinary. Total tab for the lemonade, soup, stecca, and tax came to about $ 18. The portions are perfect for a light lunch and each of my dishes were ready in less than 5 minutes.
In summary, its a start. The dishes I had today were quite delicious and Noble’s breads are of course awesome. One negative about Noble Eatery is that you can’t buy that many loaves of their artisan breads here (at least not yet). Seems to me like Noble is missing out on a big opportunity with this. Additionally, it would be great to have a bigger variety of dishes to choose from. Maybe Noble is content just to keep this place a small workweek lunch operation, which is fine if you can get here. But for people like me who work on the west side of town, I’d only be able to get here on a day off. We’ll see where Noble Bread’s owners take this operation from here. There’s promise in what they’re doing at their restaurant, but it remains to be seen how big their aspirations are.

This is a casual eatery were you order at the counter and seat yourself. At the time of this review they are only open for lunch Monday threw Friday. Noble Eatery is the restaurant side of Noble Bread. Many of the best Restaurants in the Metro Phoenix area feature Noble Bread. The menu changes daily.
On my visit they offered a house made soup, a couple produce sides, sandwiches made with the signature thin crusty bread pocket and Smorgas.
I saw that smorgas were open faced but didn’t know what they were and ordered a tuna smorgas. It was three big chunks of Crusty Noble Bread topped with a mixture of tuna, EVOO, and spelt. It was suppose to also include Home Boy Jalapeño Hot Sauce. They used a very small amount of the sauce because I didn’t taste anything jalapeño there. The Bread was excellent but the tuna was just ok to me. I would order a sandwich next time.
The grapefruit and strawberries with wild fennel seeds was very light and refreshing but was very light with the fennel seeds because I didn’t get them in many of the bites.
My husband really enjoyed the #2 Fra Mani Sandwich and the canary lentil soup with poblano chilies, farro and kale was good but also was very light with the poblanos because neither of us found them in the soup.
3.5 stars
3 – 5 stars depending on what you try.
Parking might be tight and the tables are small and some are very close together.

We enjoyed our lunch in this modern-​rustic kitchen a couple weeks back. We were fortunate enough to get the last table available at high noon, and Jess — such a friendly hostess and server — got us a second chair from the back.
The menu changes and is written on a chalkboard and consists of soups, sandwiches, smorgas (open sandwiches), small bites and sweets. These aren’t your basic ham-​n-​cheese sandwiches by any means. These are quality cured meats sourced from Creminelli
, Fra’mani
, La Quercia
, and Little Miss BBQ
(local to Phoenix!) You’re also getting organic produce and grains.
We started with the soup — garbanzo bean, red quinoa, harissa, olio nuovo (freshest possible EVO you can find). The soup was good but lacked a bit of depth that I was expecting. The harissa gave it a nice warmth though and I will say that the ingredients were cooked perfectly (if you’ve ever had an overcooked garbanzo bean, you know what I’m saying!)
The sandwiches were divine — on of course, Noble Bread! One was La Quercia’s prosciutto Americano with parmesan and mizuna, the other was Creminelli’s cotto with NY cheddar and Anaheim chiles. Somewhat similar in flavor as you’d expect, but the cotto/​cheddar was a bit dryer than the prosciutto/​parm. We were OK with both sandwiches being «ham-​style» but I could see how others may wish there had been another choice of sandwich. We enjoyed the fresh mini-​apples from California and the olives on the side, but as an afterthought, I was hankering for an additional something crunchy. Maybe some organic chips or kale chips? I don’t know if this could be down the road but I surely would go for it!
The parking lot is tiny and tricky so perhaps park elsewhere and walk a bit. I imagine that this fine little kitchen will only get busier. I lean toward calling it «kitchen» since you are sitting in a cozy room and there is an open wood-​fire oven going behind the prep line. It has a homey feel to it and that is communicated as well by the warmth of the owners, Claudio and Jason, and as mentioned, Jess.
Thanks for the hospitality and a wonderful lunch! Looking forward to more mid-​day munches.