Restaurant is clean and staff is friendly.
I ordered the Spicy Korean Bowl and the Alfredo Mont Amore Bowl along with the Pot Stickers.
Spicy Korean Bowl (in the picture) is noodles that are tossed in flavor sauce with meat. What I received was soup that drowned out everything and it was so overpowered with sauce that I had to fish the noodles up and shake them off to try and taste anything but drowning spicy glop. I had a few tiny tiny bits of meat that I could barely tell were there because of the overload of sauce in the bowl. The whole thing tastes like burning spice that chewed like noodles were in my mouth as well.
The Alfredo Mont Amore Bowl was served upside-down so I thought they missed adding the topping. I dug around and found all the stuff on the bottom and found out they put in giant cuts of unripe tomatoes, and they included 2 tops of the tomatoes (where the stem is pulled from). To be fair, the noodles here tastes good with oil and cheese and the chicken tasted good with a flavored breading.
The Pot Stickers were very bland and they need another dipping sauce other than a mild sweet spice sauce, something more salty would pair better. Each bite was a sweet, spicy bland texture when you start chewing and the only way to taste anything with these is the dipping sauce. The Pot Stickers themselves were absolutely tasteless by themselves, they need to flavor the outside because it taste like dough.
I've heard nothing but great things about Noodles Company but all the great reviews are from the one in Charlotte.
I have a coupon for a free bowl, I'll try it in Charlotte, but I'd rather pay money at any other establishment than go to the Gastonia one again. Even if the food is free.