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| - When it's 82 degrees in Pittsburgh...in March...I'll take any excuse I can get to sit outside in Market Square. Today's excuse was a much-anticipated inaugural trip to Noodles & Company. I ordered online with 7 other co-workers; which is a great feature their website and one you should DEFINITELY take advantage of no matter how small or large your group may be. Otherwise, get ready to WAIT. Seriously. The line was capital E - Epic and the atmosphere was chaotic to match. I will say this - their online ordering system was down today, so the pick-up of our order was a little messy. But the manager eventually made good on all of our orders, so I'm going to let it go.
Our selections ranged from my own Bangkok Curry to a couple of Pad Thais, a salad and a few Italian noodle dishes thrown in for good measure. Out of 10, the highest rating my co-workers gave to their own respective dishes was 8 and the lowest 6; though after further thought I might change my 6 to a 5. My Bangkok Curry was totally fine. Fresh broccoli, well-cooked noodles, but lacking in spice. Just nothing special and now I smell like an onion. Definitely not worth waiting in that insane line for (even though I didn't, as an online orderer), but worth it enough to pay $5 for.
I'd recommend going once, maybe twice to try another genre of noodle dish. Beyond that, there are so many more local, interesting joints that serve noodles in this awesome city of ours.
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