Soba Noodle & Rice

New Location — across the street on Bond. Super friendly staff. Our orders were placed quickly and didn’t take very long to arrive.
They apparently have been opened again since last Spring. Tried the teriyaki chicken (yes, too much sauce and salty); also tried the Sobo Bowl which had chicken and shrimp it was pretty good. Prices were in the $ 8 – 10 range for a medium to large sized bowl. Several tables up front and bar in the back.
We enjoyed our lunch and will be back.

We won’t return. Disappointing — Bend really needs a quality noodle house!
Cons of my visit: 1) Teriyaki chicken was inedible due to outrageous salt content. Sent it back and received one plain chicken and rice bowl for the two we sent back. No offer to bring a second dish or give credit. Four people at our table all agreed — no bueno on the teriyaki chicken sauce. Some major recipe re-​figuring needs to happen. 2) Drinks ordered at the same time as food came 25 minutes after we were seated and half way done with meal, had to remind our server that we ordered drinks 3) Bar music in back is obnoxious and incredibly loud. 4) Service was sad and confusing
Pros of my visit: 1) My cocktail was tasty 2) Parking options near restaurant are great

I am giving 1 start because the young lady working in the front was very nice, hopefully she finds a job somewhere else. I ordered lunch to go, thinking something healthy delicious and fresh. First my food was given to a table of people who literally just walked in and ordered and started eating it. The manager or owner whom was working in the bar realized but the people decided to keep one of the dishes because they were already eating. The manager/​owner never once said anything to me or acknowledged the mistake. I ordered chicken pad Thai — go to Safeway and get the boxed pad Thai and a chicken breast and your better off, the dish is only noodles and chicken, very little chicken. One of the dishes from my first other was slapped upside down in a to go dish, pepper steak. It’s a huge bowl of rice with big chunks of burnt fatty tough steak that was marinated in soy sauce? The basil chicken tastes like fish, too much fish sauce or something? Bottom line, the service with the exception of the young lady at the front was terrible. They need to train the young man running food on what goes where and what the dishes are, and the cooks obviously need some training too. To go spend over $ 30 on lunch, you are way better off going to Thailandia, Taste of Thai, Sezschuan, sweet saigon, all great places and I am sure there are many more that top the food and service at this place. Definatley will not be recommending to friends or going back.

I don’t like the smoking policy. Smoke comes in through the back door into the restaurant. One of the workers came out to the patio, smoked a cigarette and then spit on the ground within 5 feet from where we were sitting. It feels like they are trying to make it into a bar.

French fries with awesome spice and curry, excellent noodles, great flavors, great ambience and found, fun place one of our favs #inBend, very good sales, crisp and fresh greens, my favorite is the canton udon with liberal dose of Sriracha sauce…

Loving the new location! Supper happy they reopened! I’ve been there a couple times now, staff is really friendly & tentative, the food has been awesome every time and the atmosphere is fun! So happy Soba is back! #sobalicious

Underwhelming to say the least. My chicken pad thai had a strange sour flavor to it that required sriracha to make it edible. The $ 10 drunken pepper steak was a disappointment as well (and expensive for how basic it was) and the food seemed to take longer than necessary when there were only 4 tables full and not everyone ordered at the same time.
Also, their credit card processing system forces you to tip a minimum of 15% which is ridiculous when it’s basically a fast food /​help yourself setup.
They have single squirt bottles of sauce so if someone else has the one you want (e.g. teriyaki) you are out of luck. I guess you are supposed to order, sit down and wait for your food, then carry your food up to the sauce station to get teriyaki or sriracha? I can’t imagine that is very practical with how many tables they have.
The general layout of the restaurant is weird. I wonder what would happen if the restaurant was even ½ full — it was already a little chaotic with just 4 tables and when we tried to eat here a few days before we couldn’t even get in the door because there were people waiting to order.
In addition, you have to make it all the way up to the counter to even see the menu so there are people walking back and forth in the entry while there are people standing there waiting to order which is additionally awkward if you are just wondering what the restaurant offers.
They should take a few cues from the layout of the similar style of Café Yumm — menus (both printed and posted) right at the door, designated waiting space /​line, two people taking orders, silverware and sauce station with enough of every sauce for each table at the end of the checkout line…

Simplistic atmosphere, simplistic menu, less than enjoyable food. Paid $ 10 for undercooked chicken and rice drowned in teriyaki sauce. Tacky plywood decorations mixed with music that lacks cohesion for an Asian bistro. For a reboot of the old Soba, I was very disappointed and won’t be coming back.