{"id":100,"date":"2006-09-10T11:46:38","date_gmt":"2006-09-10T11:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/?p=100"},"modified":"2006-09-10T16:37:04","modified_gmt":"2006-09-10T16:37:04","slug":"gilgamesh-bar-restaurant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/?p=100","title":{"rendered":"Gilgamesh Bar &#038; Restaurant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A pretentious Friday night dining experience for a complete change of pace, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gilgameshbar.com\/\">Gilgamesh Bar &#038; Restaurant<\/a> (but don\u2019t visit their site unless you like big, slow loading, Flash sites).  We made our way up to Camden to a flashy Asian restaurant, and I must say after visiting the restaurant we feel that its location leaves something to be desired.  For the type of restaurant it is and the market it is trying to capture I am not convinced that its location is quite right, and that\u2019s not helped by the fact that when dining you are sitting beside a freight rail line.<\/p>\n<p>The restaurant and bar itself are big spaces and I would say it is posey Asian \u2013 the d\u00e9cor is all carved wood panels with dim colour changing lighting.  A little bottle of coke costs \u00a32.50 and get this, they pour it into a glass and don\u2019t give you what\u2019s left in the bottle. Now I don\u2019t know about you but when I have paid extortionate money for a drink I want the whole lot!  The menu was pretty thin on mains, which seem really pricey, but there were quite a few nice dim-sums that we pigged out on, and the food was good.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re not sure how long they\u2019ll be able to sustain the way they run the place either.  There seemed to be more staff than patrons and the majority of them seemed to have nothing to do other than stand around at the kitchen waiting for food to be cooked.<\/p>\n<p>I can\u2019t say we\u2019ll be going back in a hurry. But we\u2019d have to say that all in all if you like pretentious places then I\u2019d give this one a go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A pretentious Friday night dining experience for a complete change of pace, Gilgamesh Bar &#038; Restaurant (but don\u2019t visit their site unless you like big, slow loading, Flash sites). We made our way up to Camden to a flashy Asian restaurant, and I must say after visiting the restaurant we feel that its location leaves [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}