Ollie's Noodle Shop & Grille

New York, New York, United States

Ollie's Noodle Shop & Grille

Ollie's is an Asian-style restaurant located on Broadway near the corner of 68th street. They offer average quality food at reasonable prices. Their restaurant is nicely decorated, and is quite large - seating is available on two levels. There is also a "take-out" area at the entrance, with some seats available if you want to order take out food and eat it in.

Everything here is quite salty, but otherwise it tastes pretty good. Many of the dishes are fairly large. We were a group of four people, and three dishes probably would have been sufficient for us to share.

Dress

Very casual

Cost

Prices are very reasonable here for the quality of food you receive, especially compared to the rest of Manhattan.

Service

Service is pretty good. Our table received water and tea immediately after we were seated. We never found ourselves waiting for our waitress, and our food was brought out fairly quickly.

Items Ordered

Chicken with broccoli in garlic sauce

Chicken with Broccoli

I thought this was an excellent chicken & broccoli dish. Although it had a spicy star on the menu, it wasn't really that spicy. It had a lot of chicken and broccoli, and was served with rice on the side (your choice of white or brown).

The sauce tasted like a fairly simple soy sauce, although some members of the group didn't think it was the greatest.

Pan-fried noodle with vegetable

Pan-fried noodle with pork

This dish had baked thin noodles on the bottom. The sauce from the vegetables and pork kept them moist in the middle, but the noodles around the edges were hard and crispy.

The pork itself was quite tasty, and the dish was served with an ample amount of vegetable. I didn't think that the hard crispy noodles were the greatest - it was an odd texture, and was probably the least favorite dish we ordered (even though the pork was quite good).

Singapore Mai Fun

Singapore Mai Fun

This dish had soft, thin noodles with pieces of meat and some vegetables mixed in. This dish was also marked with a spicy star, and although it had more spice than the chicken and broccoli, it wasn't uncomfortably hot.

The dish did have a slight curry flavor, but it didn't seem to be quite right. The shrimp also had a very fishy taste, which I didn't enjoy.

Beef with mixed vegetable

Beef with mixed vegetable

This dish had a good selection of vegetables. The beef was pretty high quality, and quite tasty. Unfortunately, the sauce was strange. It had a bit of a sour flavor that no one really enjoyed. This dish was served with a small bowl of rice (white or brown).