The Bent Noodle

It’s a really nice local family run place. The food is a solid 7, but they give you a ton! My wife and I got an appetizer and two entrees and left with four To Go boxes and a belly ache. There’s lots of fried things in addition to pasta. I think there’s better options in the neighborhood, but you will still leave fat and happy.

First time here. 1. Great service 2. Super comfortable atmosphere– nothing pretentious 3. Delicious food! Had the shrimp sassolino– tangy, garlic, yum! Definitely will come back. Oh, also the bruschetta was fantastic!

Wonderful food! Great service! And good prices. We enjoy Bent Noodle very much! Interior is cozy and warm. Have had lunch twice and not disappointed. The lasagna is excellent. Can’t wait to try dinner.

Found this place thanx to groupon. Don’t expect a fancy menu or anything modern. Old classics but they do a very good job with them. Service was very good and portions abundant. Will be back when I’m feeling nostalgic

What a great italian place! Cozy feel and great food. Making it here during happy hour gave us a great price on a caprese salad. Paired with the warm bread the meal started of great! On to the main course of a supreme ziti. It was chocked full of sausage, peperroni, mushrooms, and peppers. Portions are super big and I ended up only eating about a ¹⁄₃ of it. Since I am an out of towner I didn’t take the leftovers with me but wish I could have!
Others at the table tried the lasagna, chicken parm, and eggplant parm. No one was disappointed.
The wat staff was great about refilling water glasses and keeping the wine flowing. I also appreciated them preparing the leftovers (for those that were taking them) tableside so you could see what was going on.
I will be back in Aurora later this year for work and expect to make another trip to The Bent Noodle!

Great little Italian joint! Atmosphere is quaint and cozy. Food is delicious. I had the Shrimp fa diabolo and my fiancé had the special spaghetti ai frutti di mare. Our server Tom was the best! He was fun, charismatic and accommodating. Definitely be back.

Excellent food, excellent services and excellent atmosphere! Prices was very reasonable. We will definitely be back!

This place used to be delicious but after the new owners took over it went down hill. Not a lot of flavor and slow service. Only good part were the bussers there are on top of it! Rather eat at olive garden!!! And that’s saying a lot.

We’ve been here several times and I should have written a review already! The Shrimp Fra Diavolo over angel hair extra spicy is the bomb! We love this place! My husband is Italian and he highly recommends The Bent Noodle. Service is always spot on, good selection of wines and the spumoni is a great finish. Want to get your Italian on… get your butt over to The Bent Noodle!

Fantastic setting, staff and amazing Italian Food! The Chicken Pepperoni is heavenly and is what I continue to go back for! Lunch is the best time to go because Dinner is a bit more expensive. This place is well worth the trip everytime!

I ate here for the first time today and had the baked ziti with meatballs and a side of sausage. We had calamari for an appetizer along with the sausage and peppers appetizer and everything was fantastic! The service was great, and the food came out fairly quickly. The sausage was homemade and amazing. They also give you freeze bread while you wait and it was very fresh and just baked :-)

On par with lower end chains. Bread was good… sauce not cooked long enough still needed to marry flavors. Lasagna tasted reheated. Portions are morethan generous.

Groupon led us to this place. We came in later in the evening and seemed to be the only ones here. The restaurant is small but I didn’t feel cramped. We were greeted by someone we later learned to be the owner who escorted us to the bar. He was very friendly and helped us pick a wine to start off with. When the bartender arrived she was also very friendly. She offered opinions on the menu, I was feeling aglio oglio and lo and behold they had it. She was kind enough to let me sub sausage for chicken. Jess enjoyed her dinner as well.
Overall the experience was great, especially the service. I’m glad we came and I’ll gladly come back.

Jeff and I headed here on a weeknight to use up our fancy Groupon before it expired. We got the restaurant shortly after 8 o’clock. We were greeted by the owner who was pretty friendly. He seemed a little surprised that we wanted to sit at the bar instead of a table but that’s just how we roll.
He got us started with a bottle of chianti which we decided on because of the owners recommendation. It was a tasty chianti and perfect with our meals. Shortly after getting the bottle the bartender was back. She was also very friendly and was forthcoming with her recommendations of what she thought was best on the menu.
I had the Pasta Di Toscano. It was very fresh and tasty. I’m a sucker for mushrooms and olive oil so I was pretty happy. The servings are decent sized. Smaller than family size but big enough to make feel a little chub if you eat it all in one sitting (total secret here but I ate the whole thing, that’s how I know). Jeff had the Aglio O Olio. I of course had a taste and thought it was pretty good. He really liked it and polished it off.
I have to say that we enjoyed our dinner and would probably go back sometime for another dinner. Everyone was friendly and the food was decent. It’s not easy to find good Italian food in Denver but this was A-​OK in my book.

Update: We’ve been back a couple times since my initial review. Service hasn’t been as stellar as it was the first time we went, but it’s been fine. Added to the list of items I’ve tried:
— Eggplant parmesan (good, but nothing special, could have more eggplant and less pasta)
— Shrimp Fra Diavolo, extra spicy. HELL YEAH! It won’t kill you the way extra spicy Indian food will, but there was a definite kick to this dish.
I look forward to trying some of their deserts once I’m off my diet.

So I have been coming here for about a year now. I decided to have lunch here today with my sister and found out they changed their meatballs to pork and beef. What an absolute disappointment!!! because I am allergic to pork they go down to a one star now cuz they’re trying to cut down on costs and the taste is going downhill, what a shame this was one of my favorite places to come. I will not be a customer here anymore. The price have gone up on many dishes and beverages .All I have to say is I am just so dissatisfied of what this place has become.

My wife and I are officially regulars at The Bent Noodle. Delicious food all around, good service, and never too busy.
The Food: The Shrimp Aglio E Olio is my go-​to food. It has the perfect amount of spice, really fresh herbs and vegetables, delicious shrimp, and the pasta is excellent no matter how you ask them to cook it (Al Dente is optional). The Bruschetta appetizer is delicious as has so many vegetables and herbs piled on the bread that you have to eat it with a fork. The garlic bread they bring out before the meal is deliciously warm, soft, and savory. Also, extremely addictive and we tend to chow down on the bread and take most of the rest of the meal home with us. The prices are not terribly expensive and you get A LOT of food for your dollar.
The Service: Never had bad service. Granted, there has been a few minor mistakes, but nothing to write home about. Most of the staff is extremely professional and well-​trained despite the younger age of the servers. If there is an error with the meal, the server or the manager is quick to correct it and compensate if needed.
The Restaurant: The building itself is sort of hidden behind a bank within an office park on the corner of Parker and Dartmouth. Classic modern Italian décor with a nice ambiance. It’s never once been overly crowded or noisy, even during the weekends.
The Bent Noodle is definitely a step above most modern American takes on Italian food. It’s a nice hidden gem in a hidden area of Aurora.

This restaurant is very close to our house and we’ve always been interested in trying this place out. The first time we went we walked in and there was no one waiting to be sat except for us. The host asks us to wait about 5 mins because one of her servers was a little behind so we agreed. 5 mins later she asked to wait an additional 10 minutes to which we told her we would just leave. She ended up sitting us down immediately, but waited 10 more minutes anyway for a server to appear.
I ordered the ravioli which would have tasted good had it not been swimming in a bowl full of water. It was horrible and completely tasteless. We mutually decided to never come back. My husband ended up calling the manager because he was so displeased about our service and the food, and he gave us a gift card to come back and try it again, so we did.
This time, I made sure to tell them I don’t want my raviolis to be in so much water. They did just that, but both of our meals were still utterly tasteless and needed a lot of salt. Literally tasted like something out of a can.
People obviously love this restaurant, it just wasn’t for us.

I cannot believe a Food Network TV show wasn’t filming tonight. This place was a disaster and the owner was the largest problem. We had a waiter who was not trained properly who spilt a soda on me and broke two glasses doing it and A busser who spilt our water and thirty minutes later spilt another couples water. We had three servers, one who sucked, one who was overly compensating for the ridiculousness happening, and one who mainly kept an eye on us the whole time. We had to move tables because our first server was so awful and just not knowing how to clean up the mess he made. I was looking around for cameras because it was that bad and I am an avid Restaurant Stakeout, Restaurant Impossible, and Mystery Diner watcher. This owner needs to sell before he loses the whole restaurant and the awesome servers who do work there wont have to look for a new job. We did get half of our bill taken off, but the regular returning customer portion (what every restaurant needs) is not happening even though we live so close we could walk there.
The food was amazing. That’s the worst part. Everything else was so bad that we decided we are going to go again just to make sure we were not crazy. We will see then how this place truly is. Too bad this happened to a Unilocal Elite.
I would not suggest this place simply because with management and ownership like that, it’s not going to be a good experience 9 times out of 10. Plus, you could get soaked.
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Saturday June 7^th 2014. Time was about 18:10hrs ish.
Hubs was super hungry. Since we have been running a lot of errands in this part of neighborhood, we «settled» to go to Bent Noodles. When we entered this establishment, it was OK. We are seated all the way back on the extreme Right of this establishment. The décor looks old, feels old, and so underwhelming at the look of the Menu.
*SIGH*
Our server provide us the Complimentary Bread that is covered with Cheese, that Hubs tends to like it ALOT!
We ordered the following items :
* Calamari ($ 8.95)
* Coffee (Beverage for Hubs) ($ 2.50)
* Linguini and Clams ($ 14.50)
* Roasted Chicken Salad ($ 11.95)
* Spaghetti Meatballs ($ 11.95)
Sorry folks, all the food was indeed bland from the boring menu. I guess I am NOT used to this kind of cooking let alone the food. Yes the food came out fast, but it was underwhelming for our tastebuds.
The Calamari was the tiny calamari and it comes with a weird caper mayo blob! Some of the Calamari is not even battered, and it was uncooked aka UNDER-​COOKED including the tentacles and the mantel, aka the «Calamari Rings». *DOUBLE SIGH* Disappointing Calamari Appetizer at $ 8.95. The Spicy Sauce that comes with this dish IS NOT SPICY AT ALL!
As for the Roasted Chicken Salad, it was Doable to Hubs standard. But I think Hubs is super hungry, so he just ate all of it without a flinch! Then comes with the Spaghetti Meatballs, the sauce was «SUPER-​MEH» to the MAX. No flavor what so ever, BORING and it DOES NOT WOW Hubs who is indeed craving for Spaghetti Meatballs for ages… Then the Spaghetti, was perhaps from a BOX, NOT Handmade or Housemade Spaghetti…
As for my order of Linguini and Clams, it seems once again I am underwhelmed with all the food they offer here. The Clams were those tiny ones. tasted like it come out from a can kind of Clams. Not the juicy plum Clams that I was hoping for with the Shell what nots…
Since I cannot finish my order due to the fact of the underwhelming-​ness, I decide to bring my food to go. Furthermore, I don’t like wasting food. The WHITE TO GO BOXES was NOT meant to be TO GO BOXES with food with sauce, Mind You! Definitely there are spillage and some of the sauce penetrate thru the box, made the box super soggy from our 20 minutes drive home. Thank God, I ask for a plastic bag for my to go box… NO GO to this establishment ever again. Epic Fai! My apologies for this rant.
Indeed A VERY DISAPPOINTING DINNER. Utterly Disappointing Indeed!
Our server that evening her name is Jody. Though she is attentive but tends to be «loud» when she speaks…
Left this establishment about 19:10hrs ish.
Table: 18
The Bent Noodle
3055 S. Parker Rd
Aurora, CO 80 010
Tel: (303)-337−2733
@124/2014