REVIEW: On The Table

On The Table

One of the restaurants famous in big malls here in Thailand, On The Table called itself a japanese cafe with all the fusion japanese/western food it serves. The food at On The Table are mostly mixture of japanese ingredients into western dishes, such as Salmon Pizza.

Just like the other restaurants in the malls, the price here are in an affordable range at 200-500Baht not including 7% of VAT and service charge. There are obviously variety of menu of foods and drinks to choose from, from sushi, salad, pizza, steak, spaghetti and rice. And for the drinks, there are many type of drinks such as italian soda, smoothie and iced drinks.

Salad

To start off the meal I chose to order the avocado and strawberry salad to share with the rest of the people as an side dish. This avocado and strawberry salad is basically fresh salad vegetables on top with slice of avocados and strawberries, then finished off with white sesame sauce. Surprisingly, the taste of avocado and strawberry went well together although they were no specific taste to it but still is a great menu to cut off the heavy taste from other dishes.

Rice

There are many type of rice dishes here at On The Table, and for today I have ordered three rice dishes; curry rice, fried rice and sashimi rice (sashimi don). Beginning with the curry rice, different from the ones at other restaurants, this one serves with omelette, fried pork and fermented tomatoes. The vegetables and meats in the curry comes in a big chuck which made the overall of the taste goes perfectly well unlike the one elsewhere where there’s mostly just the curry sauce and rice.

On to the fried rice, the fried rice dish I ordered today is the one that comes with salmon teriyaki. The menu of this dish is called Salmon Teriyaki Fried Rice. And for the fried rice itself, it contains slices of mushrooms, carrots chopped in cubes and other spring vegetables. The taste of it is just like the typical fried rice but with the salmon it made the taste of the rice better. This dish would be great for kids as there are no spice added and the overall taste was quite bland, and the kids would get vitamin from vegetables and protein from the fish as well.

Sashimi rice, or as known as Sashimi Don, is a bowl of rice with variety type of raw fishes chopped in cube on top. In this dish the sashimi contains the basic salmon, tuna, crab stick, tago (squid) and ikura (salmon eggs), then sprinkled with japanese seaweeds and bean sprouts. There comes a seasoning sauce served along with the dish which highly recommended to be mix in with the rice otherwise the taste would be too plain. The fishes weren’t as great as the ones in authentic japanese restaurant but not as bad for the one in the malls.

Pizza

The pizza that might as well be there signature dish of the restaurant is the Smoked Salmon with Spinach pizza, although there are many more types such as mushrooms, hams and vegetables. The pizza here comes in a small serving and thin layer of dough which you could probably finish one slice in just 3-4 bites, unlike the ones in the typical fast food place.

The salmon came in a big slice that could almost cover up the slice of the pizza and with a slice of onion, and the spinach is placed in the middle more like for a decoration. I find it best to eat the spinach along with the pizza otherwise there would be just the taste of salmon and dough. There are not a big layer of cheese but just a tint of it and tomato sauce here.

Spaghetti

Same with the pizza, there are many types of spaghettis you could choose from. From creamy sauce, the original tomato sauce, and dried asian style spaghetti. Today I’ve decided to chose the dried spaghetti with fried pork, fried chilli, and basils. Or as known as Spaghetti Pad Kee Mao here in Thailand. The spaghetti was seasoned with oil and pepper giving it the lightly spice flavor and the fried pork were amazing. It is not too spicy as for the chilli they used is the fried chilli, so they were more to just add the color to the dish.

There are no need of reservation, you could just walk-in and start your meal right away. Also, if you live in an area where there is unlikely a mall to be found, On The Table offers a delivery through Food Panda application as well. If you want to check out more of their menus and informations you could visit onthetabletokyocafe.com, or call to the specific branch.

Branches:

CentralFestival Eastville

Siam Center

Central World

CentralPlaza Grand Rama IX

CentralPlaza Ladprao

CentralPlaza Rama3

Megabangna Shoppingcenter

Siam Discovery

Futurepark Rangsit