Salt Bistro and the Vermont Catering Company

“Absolutely delicious food and wonderful service! The staff are so friendly and attentive, and every dish is full of flavor and made with care. Highly recommend this place to everyone 😊💯⭐️

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

The Steak tips & Flank Steak Gorgonzola salad were perfect! Staff was very friendly and gave great recommendations. View outside is also very nice. Great experience!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Very poor quality food for the prices. The steak tips with gravy I can only imagine came from a can or a bag. It reminded me of Dinty Moore canned beef stew, a step above dog food. The potato was just mashed, no seasoning, milk or butter. It was like someone opened a baked potato and threw it on my plate without the skin. Very dry I will say that all 5 green beans were nice and fresh. I would be so embarrassed to serve that to people and call it food. Other than that, it’s the same complaints as others. Long wait times for food, place needs updating and it’s VERY over priced.

Food looked amazing, but there was no flavor. We felt like our entrees needed more salt. For the incredibly high prices, we were shocked that the food lacked basic salt. However, the cocktails were great, and our waitress was fantastic. She was super helpful and fun.

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 3

Service: 4

If you’re in St. Johnsbury, make sure to stop by this wonderful restaurant! Every dish is delicious, with a great variety to choose from, and the service is truly exceptional. The owner is incredibly warm and welcoming, making you feel right at home. We highly recommend it!

Great location. Service was slow. Orders were wrong. Steamed fresh vegetables were grilled and still frozen in centre and covered in grill grease. We dined with friends from the area and all our orders were below standard.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 2

Service: 2

Wonderful cozy place with a great menu. Perfect for a date night or with the kids. Outdoor patio as well

Kid-friendliness: Kids menu

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Kudos to the waitstaff—2 people were acting as hostess, bartender, and server. They were stretched too thin and worked hard..

But I should have listened to the reviewers who said the menu is overpriced/the quality doesn’t meet the cost. Nothing was poor, but at these prices, for pasta, we expected elevated dishes. For example sausage bolognese is $28…pasta, tomato sauce, a dash of cream and some ground sausage. No salad. No bread.

Atmosphere: 2

Food: 2

Service: 4

Waited nearly two hours for our meals, and they were average-to-poor. Mussels were dry and fishy, and one of our guests had a piece of wire in their dish. French onion soup had very few onions and was mostly broth. Waiter only came to our table to take orders once. On my bottom-five dining experiences list; definitely will not be returning.

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 2

Service: 1

Ordered 2 drinks that didn't taste like the drink described, so we asked for the missing ingredients to be added.
The small stuffed mushrooms and 2 large meatball in a brown sauce were tasty. I was looking forward to the marsala sauce.
Then came the Saltimbocca with chicken. Recieved a bowl of brown sauce, mushrooms, onions, and tiny cubes of prosciutto with cut linguine and samll portion of chicken thighs? "didn't order soup".
I ordered vodka sauce over linguine and I received linguine with red sauce 3 sliced mushrooms and large slices of onion and tiny cubes
of prosciutto, with some cheese, missing seasoning.
We were very disappointed and just over the whole experience.
Don't try to fool an italian foodie!

Atmosphere: 2

Food: 2

Service: 3

The host and server were very friendly. They quickly seated us on the patio, and gave us ample time to decide what we wanted. However, the food that we got was so bland, we actually checked to make sure we didn't have Covid and possibly lost our taste buds! That is not an exaggeration- we actually did that. We got the meatloaf, steak tips and a simple pasta for my son. We had to load up on salt and pepper to taste anything, and unfortunately, everything was also WAY overcooked, even the mashed potatoes. We ate it because we were starving and it was a Tuesday evening (so nothing else was open), but it was really not good food at all. The atmosphere was nice, and again, the service was fantastic! I hope the owner/chef is able to see this and take this feedback to improve the food. We would go back if we knew we would get good food, but otherwise we certainly won't be returning.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 2

Service: 4

The restaurant experience was disappointing. They were out of key ingredients like mushrooms (a staple in many of their dishes), and the server failed to mention other unavailable items until the time of order. Despite a mostly empty dining room, service was slow with only one server and one bartender/manager, who seemed disinterested. The Caprese salad arrived promptly, if under-dressed and under-seasoned. When my wife's mussels and fries came out, it took an excessively long 30 minutes for the rest of our meals (3) to arrive, after being assured they were coming soon. The food was average; fries were good but mussels were not. Overall, the slow service and indifferent staff made for a less than enjoyable dining experience.

Atmosphere: 2

Food: 3

Service: 1

Fancy little spot, the desserts are hit or miss since they change regularly.Quite expensive meals, pretty good quality though. Severely understaffed, they had a cook and one front end person.

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 4

Service: 3

The gnocchi app was extremely small (8 tiny pieces) for the $10, the pasta for the eggplant parm could have used 2 minutes more cook time and the sauce was just meh. And I guess it’s on me that I didn’t notice on the menu But to have a $6 up charge for chicken on the $26 Chicken Marsala dish seems ludicrous considering there’s no such thing as just pasta Marsala. And to be honest I’m not really sure it was actually Marsala sauce because it didn’t taste like any Marsala sauce I’ve ever had or made and I have 25 years of experience as a cook. Needless to say I’m less than satisfied with the experience.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 3

Service: 4

Sat down in an empty restaurant with a decent size group of people, hungry and looking forward to a good meal. We ended up waiting well over an hour and half for the food to arrive. The food arrived at different times, cold, and incorrect. The waiter was curt and grumpy the entire duration and we were more than courteous given the unfolding circumstances. Worst service I have ever experienced not to mention far over priced. 10/10 do not recommend.

Atmosphere: 2

Food: 2

Service: 1