Salt Old Profile

Refurbished and what a wonderful area and ambience. Service top notch and friendly, food outstanding. Great cocktails too. We had beef carpaccio salad and crisp pork belly. Delicious!

Recently refurbished and under new management. Such an outstanding location with a beautiful deck area overlooking the marina. Cocktails were fantastic as was the food and service. A welcoming atmosphere with friendly staff. Live music on Sunday afternoon was a bonus. Definitely the place to be in Whitianga. Keep it up 👌🏼

Visited with a group of 14 for our work function. We had an incredible experience at this restaurant. The staff were amazing—attentive, friendly, and professional throughout. We couldn’t fault a single dish from the three courses each of us enjoyed; everything was cooked to perfection and beautifully presented. The atmosphere was warm and welcoming, making it a perfect spot for a group gathering. A special shoutout to the chef for the outstanding food—each bite was a delight. Highly recommend giving this restaurant a try! It’s absolutely worth the five-star rating. Would we return? Absolutely!

We went to Salt on Dec.27th. We wanted a nice celebratory dinner on our last evening in New Zealand after a month-long holiday/honeymoon there. Salt was the perfect choice! They had a nice table set up for us, and the food was fantastic! The fish croquettes, as well as the grilled octopus, were delicious! I also enjoyed the Chocolate Mousse Cake for dessert! The service was fantastic; our server, Ruby, did a great job, even though she's usually behind the bar. She made our evening really enjoyable!

Came in on Boxing Day around 7pm, got seated outdoors right away. Main gripe about this place was that the service tended to be pretty slow. It took about an hour for our mains to come after ordering, maybe 20 min for the entrees. They also forgot a drink. The food I tried was all of pretty good quality, though! Out of the 3 dishes in our group that I tried, the prawns (shrimp for us Americans) were great. Tender, juicy, and flavorsome. These appeared in the poached prawn entree, prawn pasta, and pork belly + prawns. We also tried the mussels entree that came with 2 slices of foccacia in a tomatoey broth. The broth was great but the choice of focaccia instead of something like sourdough may have been a slight mistake. The mussels were a bit overcooked but not rubbery. They didn't seem frozen. I had the pork belly and prawns main, which featured three nice chunks of pork belly. The menu doesn't specify for this dish, but I think the pork belly is thrice-cooked based off of another menu item. It was indeed encrusted nicely and looked very dry on the outside (not doused in oil). But the inside was juicy and almost gummy with the pork belly fat. The flavors were very nice with some spices complementing the pork flavor and the gelatinous fat combining with the flesh for ultimate satisfaction. They only gave me three prawns (shrimps) which disappointed me. Each one was perfectly cut and twisted, seasoned to perfection, delicate and bold at the same time. But only three! The rest of the dish was also quite tasty - the veg and potatoes, but again oh so little!

Traditional and old fashioned food presented well. We need to keep restaurants like this alive. Staff was very proactive and pleasant. Desserts were above par. Good choice of drinks and cocktails. Location speaks for itself.

Let me start this review by saying I wish I could give a proper review, but unfortunately I was denied that privilege. I am celebrating my 2 year anniversary with my wife in New Zealand. We are staying in Tauranga tonight, but I wanted to do something special so we decided to make the 2 hour and 30 minute trek on over to have a nice anniversary dinner. Unfortunately as we are tourists, our cell signal is very spotty but rest assured, I checked google maps and was able to secure myself in the fact that the restaurant wasn’t busy. When we arrived it was lovely, we walked into the restaurant to be greeted by a maybe 55-60% full customer base. We asked to be seated around 8:20 only to be told the kitchen wasn’t going to accept our order so we had to find other accommodation. Luckily we were greeted with open arms across the street at marina bay. If you are looking for a nice experience to rely on, do not visit this restaurant, although the food looks promising online, the trouble isn’t worth it.

We had a group of 8 people. The service was great and most things came out at the same time. My friend said that the prawn linguine was amazing. I had the dumplings that were very nice and a good flavour unfortunately they were swimming in oil which wasn't great. We all had desserts and they were fantastic. The cocktail menu is awesome and a good selection of non alcoholic beverages were available which is amazing. I had an iced coffee and it was awesome. I found the price of everything very reasonable for the quality. Will definitely be going there again. Went again 😁, had full dinner with entrée everything was fantastic 😍 Calamari was excellent, my steak with blue cheese was perfectly cooked and so yummy.