Saturday 29 March 2014

83. Dining With Robots

26th March 2014, Giant Robot, Clerkenwell, London

If your place is a bit quirky and doesn't have rats I will most likely want to go to there.

A good tip would be to name your restaurant Giant Robot and devote a whole section of your menu to 'Special Balls'. I'll be there in a heart beat. Well, I'll most likely be there 20 minutes late, but I will be there.

I was in fact 20 minutes late to meet with two of the Swafia* boys at this place. But as I saw it, a place with a robot theme is probably the best place to make boys wait for you in.

I must admit, I was a bit disappointed at the lack of man made creatures in the place upon my arrival. Fine, expecting R2D2 to serve me my Pinot may have been unrealistic. But the only robot in there was a lamp hanging from the ceiling. It did nothing to settle any of my many robot needs.

Other than that, this is a perfectly fine diner style restaurant. My pasta was fine, the boys' burgers were fine, service was slow but the wine glasses large. But I can't lie, whatever they would have done, it would still have been over shadowed by the lack of robots.

I still maintain that if you promise the people robots, give the people robots.

Why are the balls not special on the printed menu?

Some special balls to go?




*Swafia = the Swedish Mafia, my London team consisting of 50% Swedes and 50% people who live their lives eating crayfish with the Swedes, watching the Swedish Chef clips whilst having champagne and dancing around the midsummer pole.


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