Lisa H.
Yelp
A few weekends ago, we decided to stop in and try out Salt & Spoon. We've had a few places that we wanted to try out, but always forget about, and Salt & Spoon was on that list.
So here's the deal. I'd really like to give 3.5 stars , but really didn't feel rounding up to 4 was appropriate, even though the food was really tasty.
Salt & Spoon is a small, cute restaurant that is bright, clean, and open. The location is in a strip mall, not horribly far from our house.
We went and ordered a strawberry lemonade, the mushroom risotto, calamari appetizer, and the crab pasta.
Let me start by saying that service was nice, and pretty prompt, and the food tasted really good. The mushroom risotto is not to be missed. The rice was cooked absolutely perfectly, it had a generous helping of mushrooms, and lots of parmesan goodness.
The calamari was really good too. The addition of the little pepper bits was super nice.
Where we lose some points is the crab pasta. The menu didn't mention crab anywhere but the name, so we asked, just to be sure "Is there actually crab in this?" and our served responded with yes, real crab.
The problem was that it was canned crab.
So here's the good about the dish: The pasta was cooked perfectly. The sauce was really nice. And there was a lot of crab...BUT...since it was canned crab, it was kind of "shreddy" if that makes sense...and it absolutely got lost in the sauce. It ended up being kind of mushy and a mess. Yes, you got crab flavor, but for $26...it just wasn't worth that price to us. In our opinion, they'd be better off getting 2 nice snow crab legs, putting the meat on top whole, and charging $28-30 for fresh crab. That would have made all the difference.
Will we come back? Probably. Like I said the food was good, and they source fresh ingredients from California (I struggle to say "Local" when talking about Cali, but that's just me lol). We definitely won't be getting the crab pasta again though, its just not worth the money. Spending $90 (including tip) on 2 pasta dishes and an appetizer was not exactly what we'd planned when we set out to have lunch there, but there we are.