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    Antipodea

    1.0 (1 review)
    Open 7:00 am - 10:00 pm

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    8 years ago

    Waited 47 minutes for our food - and still has not come!! Not even an apology so far. And all this despite the restaurant is only half full.

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    Kawa

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    Hammersmith

    Yet another cool looking new restaurant opening on King St. We peered in and saw a sushi conveyor…read morebelt and that was good enough. But when we got in we found it wasn't a conveyor belt but a river. Yup. A river. And when the single waiter asked the dreaded words 'have you eaten here before?' we knew we were in trouble. Rule of thumb. If you need instructions on how to eat at a place, it's probably a bad idea to eat there. I call it the Harvester Rule. Instructions were as follows... It's a totally cashless restaurant. You pay at your station on a touch screen as you order food. Once ordered an paid for the food will be cooked then floated to your table along the river. Grab it as it comes past. A notification will be sent to your pad when the kitchen receive your order. Bill can be sent to your preferred email. Scroll down the menu to see all options. Waitress can deliver drinks. Blimey. But we were in now so we went with it. We sat at the bar bit because there were only two of us and the tables were for larger parties. Our station at the bar was mostly taken up by the touchscreen pad used to order and communicate with the kitchen. Pretty uncomfortable. We ordered a chicken satay starter, some sticky wings, some corn fritters, and a big bowl of special fried rice to follow. We watched as the food was cooked in the kitchen at the other end of the restaurant. The chef loaded each plate onto a Stannah Stair Lift contraption which slowly lowered the dish into the water with accompanying beeping noise. The food pumps round and eventually sails past your table. When I say boat I mean floating contraption rather than anything decorative or nice. For the rice dish the boat needed a big black box counterweight on its other end to prevent the rice slipping into the mekong and being devoured by the piranhas. (I know thats not geographically correct but you geddit) The whole thing would have been a lot more efficient and simple if I had simply walked up to the kitchen and got the food myself. Or (I know this is radical) a waitress had delivered it to us using feet to move and hands to present. The food when it came was fine. Wholly unchallenging. Sweet, stodgy, lacking exciting flavours. Not a disaster, but certainly not hitting any heights. the chicken wings were at least crispy, the satay not dry as a bone. And the lady who gave us our instructions was charming. But the whole thing is just plain stupid. It's all designed around this bizarre delivery mechanism and that makes the restaurant cramped and uncomfortable. And faintly ridiculous.. The flyer promises 'hand crafted' Asian food. I wondered if they should go the whole hog and get the ipad to do the cooking as well. We got our bill and scarpered. The confirmation email with our bill on it was waiting when we got home, as promised. An experience designed for Wall-E or Brian from Confused.com. The two stars I'm giving this are both for the bizarreness of the experience. At least we'll remember it!

    Me and my partner passed this place on it's first day and were really excited to try it - the decor…read morewas lovely - modern with an impressive river running down one side that delivers the food from the kitchen on a boat and ordering on iPads made the experience a little different. However that's where the good stuff ends.. We asked for green tea which for £2 came with a generic white mug with hot water and a tea bag still in it's wrapper. Not very authentic. We ordered the laksa soup hoping for lots of flavour but it was absolutely tasteless (and the river/boat system took a good couple of minutes, at least, to get to us.) All in all a bit of a come down to say the least.

    Antipodea - australian - Updated May 2026

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