Nobel House

Amazing little gem in downtown Geneva. Great for drinks, food, and fun!
We came in on a late Tuesday. The servers were super nice, friendly, and attentive and let us get an order in before the kitchen closed (at 10pm). I had the Rueben’s Sister Rachel and the smoked turkey was on point. The onion rings and accompanying chipotle sauce were (somehow casually) maybe the best I’ve ever had. My girlfriends brussel sprouts were really tasty and her chicken sandwich was good too. I’ve got my eye on the sweet fries and mac & cheese for the sides during my next visit.
The beer list was long and good, but mostly IPA-​centric. This isn’t too out of the ordinary for summer time, and the local selections were a plus.
With pulled bacon sandwiches, real in-​house smoked meats, and some other fantastic looking dishes on the menu I’ll definitely be back!

Love the NoHo Bloody Mary’s, the mac and cheese, and the burnt ends/​meat candy. Any of those items are worth a visit on their own. We also enjoy the beer flights and had a great smoked meats platter one time.
All the other menu items are a little pricey and typically service is a little slow… otherwise we keep Nobel House as a fun option for a drink and a quick bite.

Great food, awesome staff, and tasty beverages! What a great place to hang out at and have a nice dinner to just to enjoy some cocktails. What a great place!

Good beer menu — had the IPA flight. Seems like a place the locals come for a bite or two and a few drinks. Service was good — we came here on a Sunday evening. The reason for the 3 stars is because the food was salty beyond belief and not as good as earlier reviews stated. We have eaten at a lot of Geneva restaurants and there are way better places. This was seriously the saltiest food I have ever eaten in my dining experience in the Midwest. If we come here again we will most likely just order drinks!

Love: excellent beer selection
Like: food was decent fairly priced but there is a bizzare after taste of smokey bbq
Dislike: the bartender was totally inept. The bar was packed and he seemed to think checking his phone and stocking the cooler with Miller lite was a good use of his time. The entire waitstaff and hostesses seemed under trained and apathetic. The best service all night was from the bus boy who was super polite and attentive. He should be promoted and the bartender should take some lessons from that young man.

Great food Great drinks Great times
I had the steak sandwich on a brioche bread (hate pretzel buns). This is so delicious! Cooked to perfection meat melted in my mouth.
Table also ordered the Lobster Roll and Noble bbq wings — Another pleaser!
App of roasted garlic was delicious flavors married on top of a crostini. Roasted garlic roasted tomatoe goat cheese and the crostini. Perfect!
Sides of house chips and sweet potatoe fries were delicious and peefect pairings to our meal.
Cocktails were made well Good beer selection. good job owners! We will be back.

Affordable meal and very tasty! I really enjoyed the burnt ends I ordered. The mussels with the beer broth however was a little disappointing.

Great family place early and adult hangout late. Food is fantastic, service great, craft beer selection good and ambiance casual. The only comment is the menu could use just a few vegetable sides.

I am pretty down on BBQ from outside the 100-​mile triangle of south-​central Texas where they know how to do it right, but Nobel House, a small breakfast/​brunch joint in Geneva, does it pretty well. They have a really robust breakfast menu, heavy on the meats, some good small plates (them burnt ends!), and a surprisingly good selection of craft and local beers. There’s a lot of places nearby to go, and you might pass up Nobel House because it looks pretty unassuming, but it’s definitely worth the time.

I meet up with a friend in the St Charles, Geneva area about once a month for some drinks and lunch. We normally always hit up a bar in that area, which is never a problem since there are plenty. He kept suggesting that we try Nobel House, but from the outside it looked like a café and not a bar. I finally relented and we went this past Saturday for lunch and oh how wrong I was, this might be my new favorite place.
Nobel House isn’t very big on the inside, but big enough and there was never an empty table, so apparently other people know about this little gem. They have an extensive beer menu with mostly local craft beers on tap (always a plus) and they have a pretty big food menu as well. Normally at a new place I get a burger, but something on the menu caught my eye… pulled bacon sandwich. What sorcery is this? I absolutely had to try it! It’s essentially a pulled pork sandwich, but made with the cut of pork normally reserved for bacon. Apparently this is a thing, but I had never heard of it before, so that’s what I ordered. This might be the greatest sandwich of all time, it was awesome! It’s sort of like a very tender, very flavorful, richer, pulled pork and it included house cut fries and 2 different BBQ sauces.
Prices were reasonable, service was good, the place was clean and they seemed well organized. I will definitely be back and you will too once you’ve tried it.

My friend whole lives nearby brought me to the Nobel House to grab a couple beers and half dinner. The beer selection was great, plenty of local brews, lots of seasonal and rotational choices. They were overly dependent on IPA’s like lots of bars. That’s great as I’m not a fan of all the hoppiness of them. They have grilled frog legs as an app special, they were slathered in a citrus Thai sauce that was tasty but too spicy to really enjoy. The plate also had a bed of coleslaw that had an interesting ingredient, bleu cheese. It made for a creamy flavor that was great. I followed the frog with the steakhouse sandwich. I wouldn’t call it a sandwich as you can’t pick it up and eat it. Best thing was to cut it up and eat it with a fork. The steak/​cheese/​onion combo tasted good, but the meat was a little tough for being cooked med rare. Overall the Noble house was a enjoyable experience and I will definitely try it again on a return trip.

I had to stop by here again on one of my escapades up to the Geneva area and Nobel House is still amazing. They changed their menu a bit since I was last there, but it looks like they were all good changes. I had the tako tacos which were extremely flavorful and had a nice kick of spice to them. It was my first time trying octopus in tacos and I was not disappointed. Somehow the cilantro in the tacos complimented the octopus very well. I also had their Prairie Path beer which is a nice crisp golden ale and it went very well with the tacos; it wasn’t too sweet or too bitter and it balanced out the meal very nicely. I do miss their Founder’s Blushing Monk beer though, but Nobel House has more than enough delicious types of beer to make up for it. It looks like the business is still rocking and rolling and I’m happy for them! Great food, great drinks, and always a great experience.

I headed in to Nobel House as stop one of my Geneva bookmarks bar hoppin’ date with my man. I remember bookmarking it for the craft beer and awesome gastropubby small plates menu and I will say that Nobel House delivered there big time. I really was not expecting this tiny little joint to pack such a good list considering it is listed as a both a «bar and a breakfast & brunch/​american» place. At least on Unilocal,it is. I will say that the vibe there is totally weird because of the split personality though. I walked in and immediately felt like I was in a Nashville honky tonk turned daytime breakfast place who might also be trying to be a gastropub and a sports bar all at once. I mean, whatever, to each his own. The loud twangy bluegrass and the smoked meat aroma that blasted me when I walked in certainly aided in that impression. I can overlook the horrid music (and I don’t REALLY care about the atmosphere) if the beer and food are good though so I ventured onward to the bar. The bartender took awhile to stop flirting and come over to help us but once she did, the service was pretty good. And the beer list? Let’s talk about that again since it is the most important matter, really. IT WAS EXCELLENT. There was an entire page of good craft beer both on tap and in bottle. And lots of it was local (ish). There was even several beers that my snobby a** hasn’t tried. Also, you can get a premade IPA flight or their flight of the day (both of which are predetermined… though I bet they would switch some things out for you as they didn’t seem like the type of place that hates on that, but I could be wrong). And the food (which we only tried one plate since we were hopping) was excellent. We got the smoked wings which can be split into two sauces (we went with buffalo and sriracha) with ranch and blue cheese. All the food, including the obviously homemade dressings were totally legit. I could’ve drank the blue cheese right out of the ramekin because a) it was THAT delicious and b) I’m disgusting.
Overall, I really liked Nobel House and I will definitely be back again so I can try more of those delicious small plates. I’m just going to have to bring some noise cancelling headphones to avoid the bluegrass…

So, this actually was not our first rendezvous at this joint… the first time was notta so good, despite the raves from friends. BUT, with that said, they comped our meal and I mean $h!t happens… so we took a «break», but promised ourselves we’d give it another try in the future.
Second attempt. muchos better. We had burnt ends… ummm hello flavor w yumminess.
Mac n cheese was the other amazzzzing food of the night.
Their pulled bacon bbq… yea, pulled bacon, you heard me right was delish as well. Bun perfectly toasted, meat was tender and filled w bbq flavor. Little smoke, and balanced sweetness.
We will be back. give the place a try. (Great drinks, too)

We come here often and have tried many things on the menu. I love bringing friends and family to this spot.
Fantastic beer menu that changes often. Also one of the best local brewery beer choices in the area. I always order a Manhattan when I’m here because it is so good.
I am in love with the oyster selections here! Finally got Mike to try them. So delicious. The mac and cheese is awesome too. Get the burnt end appetizer if you can!

I really like the vibe & menu at a Nobel House! The pulled pork we ordered was more than enough for two people, which was perfect for us! We also received some great recommendations from our waitress that were really helpful. Good beer & drink list and an enjoyable ambiance to pair with it. A nice, welcome change of pace in Geneva!

A small but cute place with some gluten-​free options.
I highly recommend the chili. It is both vegetarian and gluten-​free. It is also unique as it has mushrooms in it which give it a nice texture and flavor.

Moderately decent food, but Nobel House gets bonus points for having some vegan (and easily veganizable) options, which are hard to find along the Fox. I had the veggie chili, which was yummy, but I wasn’t too sold on the texture of mushrooms which competed with the beans in a slightly odd way. Don’t get me wrong: I love mushrooms. Just not in chili. They also have a black bean burger which I haven’t confirmed the vegan-​ness of, but which looks really good, and I would definitely give this place another shot to test that theory.
My mom had a somewhat less enjoyable experience here. See, we’re from pretty darn close to New England, and have eaten some REAL lobster rolls, notably from Maine and Massachusetts. I’m not a seafood eater anymore, but if I were, I’d probably save it for trips back home. My mom got the lobster roll here and was hugely disappointed. I can’t say I’m shocked, considering that people around here don’t know what bagels or pizza really are either. So maybe stick to local fare.
Also, if you’re not a fan of country music, well… maybe you won’t be a huge fan of this place. I don’t love it, and it was pretty loud (actually, the volume kept fluctuating as if somebody kept leaning against the volume dial and maybe didn’t realize it?), so if that will be a total buzz-​kill, maybe skip this place and go somewhere else.

So here’s my advice. If there is only bar tender and you want food — don’t sit at the bar. We opted for the bar seating rather than the unwanted seats in the restaurant but waited forever for this guy to check in with us… actually he never did and we constantly had to flag him down. The poutine was a bit smaller than expected and the lobster roll was good but once again smaller than expected and for the most expensive item on the menu I was expecting a little bit more for my money. Fresh? Yes.

Wandering around after a failed food truck fest… Geneva, here we come!
Our menu consisted of pork wings, beer mussels & the belly melt with a side of mac & cheese.
Here’s the rundown:
I was soo, sooo excited for the mussels but ended up being pretty disappointed. The «broth» was bitter & there was grit in every mussel I had. No good.
The pork wings had amazing flavor & the «smoke» taste was definitely dominant. If you’re not a fan of that, stay away.
The belly melt did not excite me as much as the pork wings did. It seemed that all of the pieces to the puzzle that were on the plate didn’t quite fit. Not terrible by any means but I would not order it again. GET the mac & cheese though, that’s definitely a solid choice and pretty delicious.
It seems that each item had a flaw or two but it wasn’t terrible. A little tweak of the ingredients and they would all be a home run.
If in the area again, I would give em another shot, especially because the vibe & beers are pretty good.