SALT

Aree is probably mostly well known as the Sanctuary of café. Yet, there is another popular gene of dining place in this area, Bar and Restaurant.

One of the famous Bar and Restaurant in Soi Aree, SALT. The concept of the restaurant is  contemporary fusion food accompanied with various original cutting edge drink. My first visit to SALT was actually a late bite, we ordered not many foods yet a lot of drinks.

First dish landed on our desk was Chilled Tuna Pasta. I expected chewiness from al dente pasta, as this is a chilled one, Yet the pasta was completely cooked thoroughly. The sauce, which was Japanese Shouyu soy sauce based, it tastes okay, yet the it was too light and watery that it couldn’t attach itself to pasta when we pull up with fork. Tuna Sashimi was slightly under average.

A good dish, actually the best dish of the meal was, Grilled Beef with Fresh Wasabi sauce. The beef was grilled to the right doneness, medium rare. Wasabi sauce came in form of sticky paste with strong kick and aggressive flavor, which I found it was a delightful component to the fatty beef.

Deep Fried Crab meat Balls, which were nicely fried to gloden browning. Inside were packed with crab meat, Bacon and mushroom. Creamy taste crab meat ball was intensified with honey mustard sauce (The sauce was a bit too sweet for my liking, yet a good dish overall).  

SALT has high reputation on their pizza so we didn’t hesitated to try out. Many fake Italian join in BKK serve lousy dry and flaky thin pizza, yet SALT’s pizza was different. Pizza dough was nicely bake until golden brown and crispy outside, yet there was some moist left inside that it wasn’t too dry and hard chew.  The Italian sausage and Grilled vegetable were abundant.

The biggest fatal failure of the night would be the dessert, Tiramisu. I don't know what kind of fresh cheese or cream they use, but it doesn't taste like Mascapone and the smell was strange. 3 of us couldn't finish a small cup of this Tiramisu. Anyway, When the manager asked us about our impression of the meal, we frankly told her about this. And she was generous enough to remove Tiramisu from the bill. (She even went to kitchen to confirm with the chef if this is the way the chef wants the Tiramisu turn out to be. Apparently the answer from chef was 'Yes'. So there wasn't anything wrong about the dessert. She could have charge us, and I think she should. Yet she didn't.)

The drink has so many variety. There were plenty of original cocktail so we tried out many of them. SALT In Love (Cranberry vodka, Cointreau, Lemon, Orange), Sake Wasabi (Sake, wasabi. lemon), Full Moon (Gin, Cointreau,Lemon, Mandarin) , Lychee Slut (Tequila,CoinTreau,Lemon, Lychee), Sugar Daddy (Vodka, Peach Liqeur, Orange, Cranberry), Toy Boy (Gin, Creme de casis,Lemon), Beautiful Boxer (White Rum, Passion Fruit, Orange Vanilla), Dark Tall Handsome (Dark Rum, Kahluam Coca-Cola) and Smooth Operator (Brandym Kahlua, Bailey's). These drinks were good overall, even I found some of them were a bit too sweet. We need a few glasses of water.

One more thing should be mentioned about SALT is the ambience. Exotic unpainted cement was a nice combination to warm tone wooden goods . With some lighting, it turned out to be a fascinated place, I must say. 

SALT
111/2 soi aree, (corner soi ari 4), phaholyothin soi 7,, Bangkok, Thailand 10400
Mon - Sat : 18:00 - 24:00 

Close on Sunday

02-619-6886
http://www.saltbangkok.com