Allium - Salisbury

Service: Dine in Meal type: Lunch Food: 5 Service: 5 Atmosphere: 4

Fantastic Experience! Mouthwatering delishious food. Great and attentive staff. We cannot wait to be back! Thank you! Service: Dine in Meal type: Dinner Price per person: £50–60 Food: 5 Service: 5 Atmosphere: 5

Quality cuisine but uneven portions, a little small. The waiters are not up to standard, the welcome really needs to be improved, no attention to customers, do not come to the table once the dishes are served, do not present the contents of the plates, take care at the bar rather than go see the customers, do not offer the menu... in short, lousy service for rather inventive, original and mastered cuisine. Service: Dine in

Alium is all about food, the decor is a bit bland, service is good enough (and not irritatingly showy as some foody places are). But the food is exceptional, especially at this price point. Between two, we shared 4 small plates and a shared assiette of desserts plus a decent bottle of wine for a shade over £50 each. Each dish was fine dining quality, the confit duck with mango and curried sweet potato puree was exceptional as was one of the best cooked fillet of mullet I have ever had (beautifully crispy skin and fall apart moist flesh served with a bisque). I liked the small plate menu with the expectation of sharing, which means you end up with your own custom tasting menu, I would have struggled to choose just one dish. People with large appetites would probably want a plate or 2 more than we had, but with each dish around £10 hardly bank breaking. If you want imaginative uncompromisingly good food without pretension, this is the place

Imaginative, excellent dishes with a very good choice of wine and beer. The experience is like tapas, in that you select enough options so that there are sbout 2 per person at the table, and then everyone shares them. Service: Dine in Meal type: Dinner Price per person: £30–40 Food: 5 Service: 5 Atmosphere: 5