Premium Asian by restaurateur Alan Yau in Salhiya, Kuwait

Solange

Duck, a piano and a mocktail bar

3.5 of 5

Alan Yau built Wagamama, Hakkasan and Princi, and he has brought a Moulin Rouge dream to Salhiya. Solange opened in early 2025 in the new Salhiya extension, up the escalators opposite Tiffany. There is a stage with a grand piano, plush booths, a private room with its own entrance and a chef's table in the kitchen.

The kitchen is Asian, aimed at several price points, and the reported centerpiece is a walk-in hanging duck fridge, which tells you where the Peking duck sits in the order of things. Menu specifics are not listed in the sources I checked, so ask what is on the pass and follow the duck. The bar makes non-alcoholic cocktails, and a good one with dinner is the right way to do it here.

This is a theater with a kitchen. Come in the evening, when the piano matters. Yau has a record of making restaurants that feel like a night out rather than a meal, and Salhiya has a crowd that wants exactly that. Book through the venue's SevenRooms page. It is not for the traditionalist or the budget, but for a table that wants an occasion and good duck, it works. Ask for a booth and keep the pace slow. The room rewards patience and punishes anyone in a hurry.

Order this

Peking duck, Wide Asian menu, Non-alcoholic cocktails

The damage

$$$

Go

Evening, when the live piano is on

Find it

Salhiya extension, across from Tiffany & Co., Kuwait City

Instagram

@solange.maison