April 2014
The reincarnation of the stylish Japanese restaurant, Sala Sala in Merivale is cause for jubilation. Its new home boasts a stylish, sharp fit-out, a fine blend of the traditional and the avant-garde, black and grey decor, original wooden floorboards and the captivation of an open view kitchen.
The relatively small dining room itself promises a level of intimacy commensurate with enjoying a meal and being able to hear others at your table speak without excessively loud music. A treat indeed!
A weekday lunch recently was my fourth visit to this restaurant in three months and was again marked by the consummate professionalism and charm of the maitre d, the well managed, efficient service on the floor, the beauty of presentation in the plate up and, without any doubt at all, the opulence of taste, the depths of flavour and the tantalising touches of texture. Very much a melange of delights to pleasure the senses and spark a gladness within.
There is a sense of craftsmanship in Japanese food that runs across the broad spectrum of food choices; you’ll not find Flintstone steaks but exquisitely prepared offerings, delicately arranged on the plates, alluringly placed to both excite and tease the palate in expectation. As well as this, the use of chopsticks allows one to eat at a civilised pace, to gently savour individual flavours, tiptoe through the kaleidoscopic assemblages of hues and deeply colorific edible formations and dance to the tune of innocently titillating taste sensations, long to be remembered.
Soon after settling into the comfort of my chair I was baptised by the graceful, middle ground of a Middle Earth Riesling, its cooling flow a blessing, no less. With gladness of heart and hunger of gut I plundered my “Assortment of Sashimi” pausing frequently to blissfully savour the exquisite textures and individual flavours of the thickly sliced, mini ‘paving stones’ of tuna, the more thinly sliced but equally goluptious groper, the pale slabs of terakihi and the oh so soft, succulent, effulgent salmon. Truly a meal very high up on the scale of my personal satisfactometer.
If you’re not as much a fan of sashimi as I, there are all the other usual and equally palatable options such as tempura, noodles, sushi and so on as well as Teppanyaki. Sit and watch the chefs at play....
My personal thanks to the staff at Sala Sala for consistently excellent service and fresh, beautifully presented food.
I will return
The reincarnation of the stylish Japanese restaurant, Sala Sala in Merivale is cause for jubilation. Its new home boasts a stylish, sharp fit-out, a fine blend of the traditional and the avant-garde, black and grey decor, original wooden floorboards and the captivation of an open view kitchen.
The relatively small dining room itself promises a level of intimacy commensurate with enjoying a meal and being able to hear others at your table speak without excessively loud music. A treat indeed!
A weekday lunch recently was my fourth visit to this restaurant in three months and was again marked by the consummate professionalism and charm of the maitre d, the well managed, efficient service on the floor, the beauty of presentation in the plate up and, without any doubt at all, the opulence of taste, the depths of flavour and the tantalising touches of texture. Very much a melange of delights to pleasure the senses and spark a gladness within.
There is a sense of craftsmanship in Japanese food that runs across the broad spectrum of food choices; you’ll not find Flintstone steaks but exquisitely prepared offerings, delicately arranged on the plates, alluringly placed to both excite and tease the palate in expectation. As well as this, the use of chopsticks allows one to eat at a civilised pace, to gently savour individual flavours, tiptoe through the kaleidoscopic assemblages of hues and deeply colorific edible formations and dance to the tune of innocently titillating taste sensations, long to be remembered.
Soon after settling into the comfort of my chair I was baptised by the graceful, middle ground of a Middle Earth Riesling, its cooling flow a blessing, no less. With gladness of heart and hunger of gut I plundered my “Assortment of Sashimi” pausing frequently to blissfully savour the exquisite textures and individual flavours of the thickly sliced, mini ‘paving stones’ of tuna, the more thinly sliced but equally goluptious groper, the pale slabs of terakihi and the oh so soft, succulent, effulgent salmon. Truly a meal very high up on the scale of my personal satisfactometer.
If you’re not as much a fan of sashimi as I, there are all the other usual and equally palatable options such as tempura, noodles, sushi and so on as well as Teppanyaki. Sit and watch the chefs at play....
My personal thanks to the staff at Sala Sala for consistently excellent service and fresh, beautifully presented food.
I will return
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