Noodle cat in Downtown Cleveland

Recently, we decided to take advantage of Downtown Cleveland Restaurant week by visiting Noodle Cat for dinner for the first time. I’ve attended a few special dinner events there, but we have never actually gone and eaten off the regular menu. During restaurant week Noodle cat was offering one Goya, two bowls of noodles, and one dessert for only $30. This deal was too good to pass up!

Food

The Goya we were offered was a seafood variety. We mentioned that my fiancée doesn’t care for seafood so our waiter offered to check if they had another variety they could substitute. Within a few seconds, he was back and offered us the pork Goya, which made us both very happy. This crispy take on a Japanese dumpling was very flavorful and was amplified by the peanut-based dipping sauce. We both enjoyed this very tasty starter.

For my fiancée’s noodle dish, she picked the College Ramen ($9). This came with poached chicken, Shire chicken broth, corn, peas, chive, scallions, & chicken salt. The first comment she made was about how this really did bring her back to her college days at Bowling Green. The flavors in the dish were all well-balanced and the poached chicken was very tender. The corn and peas added a little sweetness to the dish.  The noodles themselves were cooked perfectly and were delicious.

My noodle dish was Roscoe’s Fried Chicken and Ramen (Priced at $13 with two pieces of chicken). I ordered this dish because I was very curious as to how they would prepare the fried chicken after reading the description. It came with two pieces of fried chicken that were coated in pink breadcrumbs, butter, hot sauce, and maple syrup. The noodles came with kale & fried chicken broth. I’ll start by saying the noodles; greens and fried chicken broth were outstanding. I loved how slurpilicious this dish was. It not only had flavor, but it was very fun to eat! The fried chicken however was on a totally another level. The ultra-crispy skin was both packed with heat and sweet notes that simply were amazing! After biting through the skin, I found a chicken that was perfectly cooked and very moist. This dish for me was a homerun and I really look forward to getting it again.

After these two courses, we were both pretty full, but we couldn’t pass up on the olive oil cake dessert. The cake was light and moist with a subtle orange flavor.  A nice ending to a very filling meal.

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