Salt on the Pier

We enjoyed our visit here for dinner again with different friends who also enjoyed it, with great service from our waiter. Good views of Brighton Beach from it as well. We loved the white bait patties on the menu.

Food and service were lovely. The meals were big and presented nicely. The view is great, although would be good if the windows were cleaned. Overall a really nice experience.

It was lovely to be able to take our visitors to a local restaurant that has a great view. Looking out at the ocean, enjoying good food and receiving great service means we will be back. Thank you to Salt on the Pier.

All four of us totally enjoyed our meals, except it was mentioned the battered fish was a little overcooked. My salmon was perfect and my husbands white bait patty was big and delicious. The desserts were also beautiful and our waiter was very good and helpful. we will be back for sure as wanted to try several other tempting dishes

Good food and service and great view of the sea.

Great experience, enjoyed
Wife loved it too

Difficult to rate, so will use actual points and let readers decided how they interpret my goods and bads. Arribed to find out their food elevator broken down so had to eat downstairs. It was our anniversary so wanted an environment more appropriate. Breakdowns happen but didn't feel like host really cared about this. Would have been nice to have been provided a free drink on house or something that said he was gutted for us, not about money but emotion. We ate in the 'beach' style cafe floor, not romantic at all! Chowder and calamari starters perfect! My main seafood platter perfect! Partners steak cooked well done when she wanted it medium rare! We told host and he didn't acknowledge the mistake just sort of grabbed plate and said he will bring another. Next steak came and was done perfect, however had one less shrimp on plate. We did not mention as by that time my partner was too embarrassed to say anything, and if in fact they did steal the shrimp what would they do if we asked for another? Sorry being honest here, wanted to love everything but alas no.

Had a lovely meal and service was good . Just disappointed that up stairs wasn't open and we had to dine downstairs in the cafe. We had taken our visitors so they could have a lovely view overlooking the pier and sea

Sadly, the upstairs area was not open due to the lift being serviced, so ordinary ambience. Whitebait fritters were tasty, but the dish lacked flair. That said, a good meal for the $.

Very small portions for the price...salty popoto gratin ...got fries instead...I recommend the lunches over the dinner meals...shame top restaurant is not open..the reason we choose salt on the pier..

Fast and friendly service, prompt and delicious meals!

Will go back

Excellent vibe and great views of the sea which made it nice and relaxing. Food was delicious. Most definitely go back again

Great service and perfect location. Would love to see more diners.

Delicious food. The atmosphere was great. Our server was as happy as always. Awesome beach view.

We absolutely loved the food and service. 10 out of 10 and thanks for a lovely night.

We had pork ribs, seafood chowder and peri peri chicken from the entre menu.
The seafood chowder has good mix of seafood and tasty except the portion was a little less than most other places.
Fish of the day was lovely but would have preferred the sauce to be separate.
We had the indulgence platter for dessert. Overall it was okay and again the individual portions on the platter were small. I suppose if you have the mains and entre, these portions would be sufficient. I love the white cheesecake and pavlova as it was not too sweet.
The creme brulee is a little on the soft side.
Overall we enjoyed our evening and the staff was very friendly and helpful.

Was the best experience I’ve had on first table so far the staff was so friendly and the food was to die for and with first table so cheap loved every minute of it and going back Thursday

AMAZING service! Loved the super friendly waiter, as well as the food which arrived within a super good time!
The view during dinner with the late sun was also gorgeous. Definitely reccomend

food was mixed - Flintstone steak was stunning, pork belly was great but veges and vegetarian options were a bit "not" .....sadly. Felt like the veges had no love put into them compared to the meat- basically boiled and put on the plate....a brussel sprout cut in half, two or three slices of courgette and some boiled cauliflower - no herbs, spices, sauces or flavour added. given we did not want potatoes it felt a bit weird...bit like how it was in the 80's. Desert was ok - got the shared plate - highlight was sticky date pudding and I enjoyed the roulade which tasted like it had no sugar in it at all....so ok for keto! - cream and egg white basically....The meat was the highlight. Son who is vegetarian felt quite unwell after his filo so not sure how long it had been since anyone had ordered the vegetarian option....may have been coincidence and hopefully it was.... Would come back for the steak as it was the best option and perfectly cooked....

Been here twice before and really liked it. This time not so much. Seafood bounty had small amounts of seafood and cold chips. Rest of families meals seemed to come out cold and took longer than it should have. Waiter was a bit strange and over bearing. The other waiter was too busy laughing with co workers and forgot to bring the sauce that I had previously asked for. I’m just gunna put it down to a bad day though cause like I said before, we have been twice before and really enjoyed ourselves. Just this time wasn’t as good. Will be back again and hopefully the standards have gone back up to what we remember them as.

The service was great and the waiter was lovely and very efficient, very nice and polite and made sure that we had everything we needed. We ordered the shared platter for the entree, portion sizes were a bit small, but the food was cooked beautifully and had lots of flavour. The mains we ordered were the filo and the fish and chips, both were big portions and cooked well and tasted great. For dessert we ordered the shared platter, once again the portion sizes were small, smaller than the entrees, the creme brulee had no taste and the cheesecake which was the banoffee pie wasn't quite mixed properly as still had small lumps of creme cheese, but the rest of the puddings were lovely. Overall it's was a nice meal and would recommend going for a nice meal out for the mains :)

We enjoyed the prompt service, the music and the open fire. Our meals were delicious. It was a very pleasant evening.

Fantastic setting
Really good experience food and service
Recommended

Food is superb. Service is good and the Ambiance is great.

A very pleasant dining experience was had by all. The wait staff were excellent and food was of a high standard. The location is of course excellent. We will be going back.

Had a great night with family and good food! Thanks

Excellent food and service, keep up the great work.
Highly recommended.

We took friends who had never been before. Every steak was cooked to perfection from rare to medium-rare. The pork belly was fantastic and desserts were divine.

The service was on point and the host was friendly and professional. We will definitely be returning again. Thank you.

We had garlic bread to start with looked like something from the supermarket served on a wooden board, also seafood chowder which tasted really average like out of a can, for main ribs which were dry and no flavour, couple burnt chips amongst a few good ones. The mixed seafood dish was also really average the mussels had no flavour, on a positive the water didn't taste of chlorine the ice chocolate was great and the tap cider was cold...not recommended

Tasty food, service was good. Ambience was terrible, the only noise was the guests talking and the phone ringing. Music was turned on when we were leaving (after about an hour) and the restaurant was cold. We couldn’t wait to eat our food and leave despite the waiter being very kind.

Very Good

Enjoyed the meal, great service. It was the first night for our waitress and she did a great job and even took a photo of our group. The food was delicious thank you.

Service was very attentive and swift. Food was absolutely amazing. Had the taster platter for starters, was great being able to sample the entree menu. Mains were cooked perfect, I had
the rib eye steak and my partner had the seafood bounty no faults at all. Dessert platter is to die for! Great to sample 4 desserts.

Great

Great service and tasty food, will be back.

Sumptuous meal. Will definitely be going again.

Another great meal. Fish of the day was West Coast Whitebait. Attentive staff with a sense of humour. Will go back again.

A very nice dining experience. Food was excellent. Advice is to go there hungry as the meals are a very generous size. Pity we couldn't eat all the desserts, as they were decadent. First time at Salt on the Pier. Will return again.

Great

Massive meals, great price and nice view

Outstanding food and service, great selection, could not fault a single thing, awesome view. Looking forward to returning soon.

Very quiet & peaceful! Food was great, I loved the seafood chowder was my favourite dish of the night! Will be back for sure!

Such an amazing place to enjoy dinner while overlooking the Pier. The food was excellent and really affordable. Our waiter was very friendly and efficient,

Service was amazing, food was great probably shouldn't have ordered an entree as I couldn't finish the steak. Steak was massive!

Was lovely lovely food and service

Beautiful food and great service. Definitely recommend. The guy that served us gave us the best service.

Amazing vegetable filo parcels. Friendly and effective service. Will return :-)

The reception was warm and the food and service excellent, sadly unable to tackle dessert after a substantial entree and huge steak.

Hi we had a great night and the food and service were excellent. The restaurant
is great as it has a awesome view of the Pier and I love all the fairy lights. So it was great to go there as hadn't been for a couple of years for dinner, but have had coffee and lunches downstairs in cafe. Especially in the wake of what has recently happened inn Christchurch was good to have a great meal with friends in a lovely restaurant.