Noods n’ Chill — Restaurant in New York

I ordered takeout from Noods n' Chill, so I cannot speak to the in-house experience, but mine was poor.

I ordered from Grubhub, and the food was dispatched within 5 minutes of the order confirmation, suggesting that the food was pre-made. Normally I would not take issue with this, as I have worked in restaurants before and know how it goes, but the food that arrived looked and tasted as if it had been sitting out for quite a long time, or, at least, it was the dregs of what had originally been a large portion of food cooked earlier that day.

The Larb moo presented more as a sweet, sickly soup than a dry, aromatic salad dish. Larb moo should be a little moist, but it certainly should not sit nearly covered in its own juice. The dish tasted as if it had been laced thickly with sugar, or else the sugar (or sugar-containing ingredient) used to prep the wholesale quantity to be served to customers over the course of the day had drained to the bottom of the storage container in which it sat at the restaurant, and I just happened to get the last, unfortunate bits of the batch. The lettuce in the dish had wilted completely, so that it nearly dissolved in the mouth. At least, the dish was very spicy — a virtue often lacking in the dishes slung by NYC Thai restaurants. This was appreciated.

The green curry was a bit better, although the beef I had opted for was tough and chewy; however, I will readily concede that the meat probably cooked further than was intended on its way from the restaurant to my apartment in the container, effectively thermos-like, used by Nn'C. This dish, too, was unpleasantly sweet, leaving me to wonder whether the restaurant heaps sugar into its dishes to appeal to the American palate. Neither of the dishes I ordered tasted authentically Thai.

I want to give this restaurant the benefit of the doubt given that it is featured in numerous maps on Eater and seems to be celebrated all over the internet. It's probable that I suffered because I ordered takeout. Who's to say. Anyway, I look forward to my in-house encounter with Noods n' Chill and welcome the opportunity of a more positive experience at the restaurant. But, ultimately: ye orderers of...

Noods n' Chill was honestly one of our favorite Thai places in New York City when we first discovered it during the pandemic. It was a different kind of Thai place. An inexpensive place with a small menu focused on creative pairings of flavors, textures, and ingredients. We really found the food here inspiring. We took friends and family here. Every time we went there was a line out the door. In fact some of the dishes we had here honestly inspired us to learn more about Thai cuisine. This was one of our favorite restaurants in Brooklyn.

And then something happened. I don't know if management changed hands, or if their previous chef moved on to greener pastures, or if they simply couldn't afford to serve food of the quality they aspired to when they first opened. We went back recently, and the menu was completely different, a new long menu focused mostly on takeout it seems. The flavor is all wrong now. They serve mounds of bland noodles, inedible pork belly cooked to the consistency of cardboard, and dry bao buns stuffed with dry pulled pork without even a hint of sauce or vegetable.

Honestly writing this review is just making me sad. I really loved this restaurant! If they changed things around, I would go back in a heartbeat. But what they're doing now is unsustainable... Or maybe I'm wrong. Maybe serving bland take-out classics really is the only profitable option in Williamsburg these days. Whatever the case may be, Noods n' Chill is a tragedy. I just want the old Noods n' Chill...

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