Salt and Wood Collective

Nothing against the place, just not my personal ideal meals.

Nice place with a good atmosphere. Staff are friendly and the food is tasty. I am looking forward to trying rib night

The salad had nice flavour touches - fresh herbs and pickled onion. Fairly minimalist menu, a bit more choice would be good as we want to keep coming back! Both our servers were awesome - warm, funny and quietly friendly. Nice to have a peek into the brewery while we ate and I'd be keen to try some of their beer next time.

Great bar located very close to waikanae train station so good option for returning commuters as well as locals. Good selection of draught beers and wines and good food. Style and atmosphere is great too. Service friendly.

The food was ok but none of us walked away going 'wow'. We had a family birthday table of 8, and were squashed alongside another large table. Naturally it was impossible to hear conversation from the other end of our table with others so close. There was also the trouble of getting bumped or knocked by handbags as the other table got up to leave. Then the same again 20mins later when the next large group arrived. A bit of extra space would have been nice.