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Rated: Poor
based on 5 reviews
Noodle Bar
Shop No 6, Senapati Bapat Marg, Phoenix Mills, Lower Parel, Mumbai
24963999, 24964999
| Locality | Phoenix Mills,Lower Parel |
|---|---|
| Place Type | Restaurant |
| Food Type | Chinese, Italian, Japanese, Thai |
| Timings | 12:00 PM to Midnight |
| Price |
  Moderate
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Credit cards accepted
Air conditioned
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first reviewed by roshan
- User Reviews (5)
Sep 27, 2008
Daytime Nightmare
For want of better ideas we decided to stop by Phoenix Mills for lunch - Lemon Grass was closed (for good?) and therefore despite our dislike for the Blue Foods chain, we decided to step into noodle bar.
They were promoting their unlimited starters menu - as it was lunch time and we were in no mood for hogging, we decided to order a la carte...we ordered the pepper tofu soup and suimai to start with - while the soup came out immediately, the suimai took over 20 minutes to make an appearance, this in peak lunch hour - i cannot imagine them getting away with such slow service during a weekday lunch hour.
For mains we ordered a shitake fried rice, 'exotic' vegetables in black bean sauce and a portion of make your own noodles where we opted for soba noodles with a whole bunch of veggies.
The rice was good but it could do without the overpowering flavour of too much clove. The EXOTIC veggies contained mainly potatoes - since when have potatoes become exotic, I do not know - must ask Blue Foods!
Service meanwhile became extremely slow, and the waiters behaving typically by choosing to ignore us - they have this instinct of who might want to call them and their footsteps hurry automatically away from that table.
Water refills after being asked for 2-3 times, happened very grudgingly. The noodle bowl finally arrived and sadly it looked like a bowl of Chinese KHICHADI. The soba was overcooked to death and it made a soggy mishmash with some equally done-to-death vegetables, (we had ticked almost 7 from the list and we has to really hunt through the gooey noodle maze to find any). I refused to take any more goop from the staff and asked about the state of the noodles! No prizes for guessing the answer here....staff are trained to answer such questions - "soba noodles always cooks like this only" - I promptly told them that we prepare soba at home and it depends on how much you boil...yeah if the chef decided to take a nap while the noodles are boiling then it does turn out like that.....finally he agreed to replace, but we did not want 30 more minutes of stressful waiting, trying to catch the staff's attention and receiving some more goop in the end.
A meal for 2 without drinks - one starter, one soup, one rice dish and one vegetable came to around 650.....no tips were required where people literally have to SCREAM for attention from the staff!
A word of advice to Blue Foods - Improve or Please Shut Down!
Jun 10, 2008
Theek thaak
The other day our entire team went over the Phoenix Mills compound to catch a drink or two. As both Brew Bar and Sports Bar were unavailable for some reason or the other, we decided to reluctantly head over to Noodle Bar.
This place has a distinctive restaurantish ambiance.
For the first time the waiter was quite prompt in taking our orders. For the second time we had a hard time trying to catch his attention. Also the "water guy" was hell bent on leaving some of the water glasses on our table, inspite of our telling him atleast 5 times not to do so. He said that his manager pressures him into doing it :-(
Anyway, as the place was not too crowded, we had a really good time. The beers were served nice and cold. Unfortunately they didn't serve us any snacks (chakhna) to go with our beers.. but we did order some appetizers like Spring Roll and something chicken (not sure about the name).
Overall an okayish place, but next time I'd rather go to Brew Bar when I am in the mood for an after office drink.
May 07, 2008
Run by retards...
I think this restaurant might be run by retards. I pledge my case to you:
1. The restaurant clearly has operating hours posted outside, stating they open at noon. The first two times I came here at 12:30, they were not ready to take in customers. WTF?
2. Waiters started fighting with each other with two tables clearly occupied by customers. I wanted to go over there and settle it for them by shoving my foot up both of their as*ses!
3. After having requested the bill, it took them 20 minutes (and some yelling) to get, which we paid by credit card. When this took an additional 10 minutes, we asked what was wrong, which was followed up with the token response, "our servers are temporarily down" - upon further investigation that we took upon ourselves, they were actually printing out last night's credit card take through the machine, hence tying it up. This set us off...we slammed cash down and got out of there.
About the food? It's average at best, and nothing about this place will give you that authentic ramen or soba feel (the city sorely needs one!) - just another Blue Foods cookie cutter concept nightmare. Not going here again, and am considering actually burning the place down...
Dec 04, 2007
Excellent Business Lunch
With Lower Parel evolving as an important Business District, Noodle Bar can emerge as a place of choice for a business lunch.
My highpoints for this place...
i) Most people are here for business lunches; so, the atmosphere is not very loud
ii) Their choose-your-own-noodle-recipe makes the options unlimited...very good thingie if you have to go there frequently!
But its typically rather busy. So, if you are in a rush, book beforehand.
Cheers!
Sep 25, 2006
Nice Place for working lunch
A good place for a working lunch aka lunch with business associates.
The food comes fast, the seats are not meant to lounge - ensuring that you wrap up within the hour. The staff is attentive but does not hover around you and the general ambience on a working day is of working people from companies around the area. Gets the job done while being a close walk from the office (for most people who work around Phoenix) and has reasonable variety and not so cheap prices.