When Oprah Winfrey visited Australia recently, like some fabled monarch bestowing the colonies with her presence, there was a reason she chose Icebergs out of all Bondi’s restaurants for her brief stop-over at Sydney’s iconic beach.
Icebergs Dining Room and Bar is a two chef hate 105 seater and the most prominent restaurant on Bondi Beach, famous for its commanding views over the entire beach. The restaurant itself boasts elegant settings of a gigantic seaside penthouse decked with chic sofas and lounges. The restaurant offers a range of Mediterranean style and general seafood dishes, with entrees priced from $20-$30, mains from $36-$95 and dessert from $15-$35. Their signature dish is undoubtedly the Mediterranean roasted whole suckling pig on bay leaves.
Casual diners be careful though! This is a restaurant run by snobs for snobs. The swish settings, views and clientele carries a certain expectation. Diners, especially younger and not properly dressed diners, will be treated with general suspicion, and may even be refused seating or be given very stingy seating and terrible service. If you spend substantially the situation will improve drastically, but you have to ask if such two-faced discriminating behaviour will ruin your evening. And complaining about service is always a risky affair at the Icerbergs as the only thing more famous than their commanding view is the attitudes of their waiters.
It’s a stunning place with some truly great food, but for your own sake, try to look important and rich when you go!
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