Mecha Noodle Bar is now open in New Haven at 201 Crown Street adding to their Fairfield and Norwalk locations. Mecha Noodle Bar currently serves food seven days a week from 11:30 am to 10:00 pm Monday through Thursday, 11:30 am to 11:00 pm on Friday and Saturday and 11:30 to 9:00 pm on Sunday.
When it’s cold outside Mecha Noodle Bar is just what you need. They don’t take reservations so it’s first come, first serve. The food is flavorful and warms your body while the atmosphere is lively and inviting.
The Mecha Noodle Bar menu consists of authentic Vietnamese pho and Japanese ramen. It is a place you can partake in the culinary flavors of Southeast Asia comfort food. Going beyond just pho and ramen, Mecha also offers many more Southeast Asian dishes without broth centered on Vietnamese, Korean and Chinese street food traditions, such as bao, Saigon spring rolls, Vietnamese crepes, and dumplings.
As they say: “Don’t call us “fusion” or a sushi restaurant… We are American-Vietnamese-Japanese-Thai-Chinese-Korean-New England-Momofuku-Totto-and-Ippudo-inspired”.
Two of Mecha Noodle Bar’s cocktails you should try are the Scorpion and Yuzu 2. blend of resulted in a unique flavor profile. Whereas Yuzu 2.0 has a citrus flavor from the Aylesbury duck vodka, creole shrub, lemon, yuzu.
When eating at a Noodle Bar you may think to just order Ramen but Mecha Noodle Bar offers so many other choices that you may skip the Ramen altogether.
- Saigon Egg Rolls containing ground pork, lettuce wraps, nuoc mam, and mint
- full of
- Red Oil Dumplings stuffed with pork, shrimp, sichuan vinegar, and cilantro
- Roasted Mushroom Dumplings filled with mushrooms, brown butter miso, and arugula
Each dish is unique onto it self. The egg rolls brought me back to when we enjoyed them with our former Vietnamese neighbors. Our favorites were the dumplings followed closely by the egg rolls. Can we get an order to go?
For “steamed bao” you must try the Pork Belly, a nicely cooked and crispy slice of pork belly on a hot and sticky bao with hoisin, pickled daikon-carrots, and kewpie. Or the with
The Ramen is a well balanced blend of the 5 elements:
- Japanese wheat noodles
- Tare
- Stock
- Toppings
- and aromatic Oil
The Tonkotsu ramen added pork, chashu, spicy sprouts, egg, and scallion to the base elements. In addition to the base, the Paitan Chicken had chicken, black garlic, noir, scallion, egg, and menma tonkotsu.
was a rich blend with a slight kick of
The cozy and relaxed atmosphere worked well with the tasty street / comfort offered at Mecha Noodle Bar. We enjoyed each and every dish we tried, with the bao and “snacks” leading the way and you will too. Bring a group of friends or even make it a girls night out.
