The Salty Pidgin

Fish of the day 🐟
Pan fried fish (pictured is blue moki), celeriac, peas, preserved lemon creme, & toasted almonds

The perfect way to finish your meal. An espresso martini, made with coffee. Wonderfully bitter and sweet at the same time ✨

A Thursday afternoon well spent 🔥 🍷

One of our Thursday night entree specials: house made potato gnocchi, ham hock, parmesan, grilled cos.
Perfect way to kick off a true winters night ❄️

From the menu; coffee roasted beetroot, cocoa mayonnaise, hazelnut, goat creme, & pickled onion

New to our dessert menu; popcorn panna cotta, peanut toffee, pomegranate marshmallow, chocolate covered pretzels. All your favourite movie treats together in one dessert 🎬 🍿🥨🍫

The bar area at Salty is the perfect place to perch while you wait for your table, or for a nightcap. Sam always has a delicious cocktail ready, and the fireplace provides welcome relief from the chilly winter weather 🔥

Some photos from our WOAP event 'Crumbed Tongues and Tall Tales' with Te Radar and Storybox

Join us this May for our Visa Wellington on a Plate event, with Te Radar.

Comedian Te Radar and Salty Pidgin come together to create a feast for the senses, celebrating New Zealand’s home cooking heritage. Alison Holst, David Burton, Aunt Daisy, The NZ Kiwifruit Cookbook: Kiwi classics will be reimagined and reinterpreted into a deliciously sentimental journey of local delights. Te Radar's comedic celebration of food will be alongside a degustation menu selected from beloved cookbooks, with a side of sumptuous vintage food photography.

The ‘Crumbed Tongues & Tall Tails’ event will run from Wednesday 17th-Saturday 20th May.
Tickets available through the WOAP website, or click the link in our bio

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Made your Wellington On a Plate bookings yet? How about getting along to see Te Radar Crumbed Tongues and Tall Tales at The Salty Pidgin, proudly produced by us! It’ll be a hilarious degustational guided tour through New Zealand’s culinary past. Tickets on sale now - https://www.iticket.co.nz/events/2023/may/vwoap-crumbed-tongues-tall-tales #/information

New menu item!
Coriander crusted beef cheek, celeriac puree, apple & watercress, baby onion, and hay jus 🍴

Join us to celebrate the long weekend the best way possible. From 4-6pm tomorrow (Thursday 6th) we’ll be offering bluff oysters at $30 1/2 dozen and $60 the full dozen. Sam will be smashing out the cocktails in the bar, and oysters aplenty. See ya there 🦪

Please note that this is subject to availability, and only between 4-6pm 6/04/23

Tonight’s side special:
Cabbage heart, smothered in XO butter, w bonito flakes. It’s not like mum used to make, and might just change how you feel about cabbage 🥬

For those who missed it, here’s a small snapshot of our Valentine’s Day menu!

Pictured are some of the meals from our 5 course set menu.

Crispy skin snapper, XO, celeriac, grilled bok choy

Pure South Farms beef fillet, potato thyme gratin, radicchio, gorgonzola, caramelised onion

Vanilla semifreddo, strawberry jelly, ginger wafer

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Menus are all set for Valentine’s day, 5 courses $110 per head, 3 courses $80 per head. Sam will be smashing out some Valentine’s cocktails as well, so keep your eyes peeled for those! For bookings head online to saltypidgin.nz

A Sammy’s special cocktail;
GIN-CUZZI
Sherbet infused
yuzu tonic, cucumber & lemongrass. Perfect for these hot (& humid) summer days.

Check out last night’s entree special; fennel panna cotta, pickled quail egg, olive caramel, smoked bone marrow crumb.
We’ll be running this one tonight until it’s out, for a table head online saltypidgin.nz or call us (04) 385 9137

We’re open tonight for one last service before our Christmas break. We’ll be back January 11th, but in the meantime- thank you for all the support this year. Happy Holidays, we look forward to seeing you in the new year! 🎉🎄✨

Join us this Friday 23rd from 8pm for our Yuletide celebration! Live music, eggnog and all around Christmas cheer!
The funky Christmas sweaters are recommended but not compulsory. See you there!🌟

Treat yourself, and celebrate Christmas with us! Iced eggnog now on the menu, perfectly creamy (and boozy) with every sip! 🎉

Celebrate silly season with us, with our oysters & bubbles special! Every Wednesday and Thursday leading up until Christmas, we’re offering 1/2 a dozen oysters and a glass of your choice of the bubbles pictured for $35. Two glasses and a dozen oysters for $70, or a full bottle and a dozen for $100.

We’ve got Nautilus Methode Traditionnelle, or Silverwing ‘Nada’ Pet Nat to choose from, and (hopefully) a whole lot of sun in the garden bar so you can celebrate the right way ☀️🦪🎉

Stay tuned for more updates, we’ve got some more announcements on the way!

Offer is only available while stocks last.

🚨 New cocktail alert 🚨
‘Emily’s bee & bee’

Benedictine, Courvoisier cognac, lavender and honeycomb.

A perfect post dinner delight.
Smooth sipping ahead!

No plans for this afternoon?
Come celebrate Halloweekend with us! Live music and spooky cocktails from 4pm, and well as Halloween fun for the kids! We’ll keep them entertained, as you get ya spook on with Sammy’s Spooky Specials 👻🎃

Pictured above:
Thyme Warp Spritz;
Rhubarb liqueur, lemon, raspberry, thyme, black pepper and prosecco.

Death in the afternoon;
Hapsburg Absinthe, Nautilus Brut

Spring’s feeling like it’s sprung, and what better way to enjoy it than with oysters and bubbles. This weekend we want to help you celebrate, with a 1/2 dozen oysters and a glass of Nautilus Estate Methode Traditionelle for $35.

Offer is available all weekend, or until we run out; whatever comes first!
Cheers!
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A favourite from our new menu; eye fillet, herb dauphine, cavolo nero, & smoked bone marrow 🤤

This Sunday 9th from 5-7pm we have the wonderful Sam R. Saffery singing the night away with some live music! 🎶
Book a table to join us for dinner, or pop in and grab a spot in the bar for some sweet tunes and brews.

A bit about Sam ⬇️⬇️⬇️

From rural Hawke's Bay in New Zealand to the subways and bodegas of New York, Samuel R. Saffery’s musical journey is unquestionably linked to place and movement.
 
Blending indie, folk, alternative, and classical influences, his songs are delivered with a distinctive, melodic voice, as haunting as it is sweet.
 
Honest and gutsy lyricism, a commitment to simplicity, and a willingness to connect, combine to give listeners the sense they are sharing in a secret that might not be retold.
 
Saffery is a member of Indie folk duos Bird Courage and Lucide. His first solo EP, 'Belong' explores themes of identity, the subconscious world, human beings’ sense of place and their daily connections with one another.

👀Another new menu item! 👀
Paprika cured salmon crudo, almond crème, chorizo, & fennel 🐟

Sun is out and birds are chirping, and without jinxing it, it feels like spring is here! 🌸🌼

That means a new menu at Salty Pidgin!

Pictured above is our beef tartar, with roast beef fat pesto, served w toasted sourdough! Yum 😋

Planning your staff Christmas party? 🎉
Why not hold it at Salty Pidgin this year! With full and half restaurant hire available for both lunch and dinner, we’ll take the stress away from planning.
We also take group bookings for those with teams on the smaller size.

We’ve still got spaces left in December, so for enquires email us at [email protected] 🎅🎊