This was the most humiliating and disgusting experience I’ve ever had in a restaurant. If I could give 0 stars I would but unfortunately I cannot.
I politely approached the restaurant with a friend and was completely dismissed by the hostess. I followed her inside the restaurant to ask if we were able to just select a table and sit or if we needed to wait to be seated (the restaurant was empty other than one other couple), in which she replied, telling us we could pick where we want to sit, with quite an uninterested attitude. We chose a table outside, after around 5 minutes and nothing, I went up and grabbed menus for us both, myself, with no service in sight. After we had decided on what we wanted to order, we still had not been approached by the hostess. At this point we had been seated at the table for 25 minutes with no contact from the hostess, being completely ignored. I eventually walked in and the hostess was seated at the restaurant bar on her phone. I excused myself and asked politely if it was table service or if they would like us to come up to order (despite knowing it was table service as we saw her serve the one other couple seated in the venue) she dismissively said it was table service and followed behind me back to our table out on the veranda. She went on to allow us order our drinks and then as we went to tell her our meal order, she cuts me off, looks me up and down and says I should go home and change, I was confused and questioned what she meant, again with the same judgemental and disgust look, she told me they are not a beach bar, they’re a restaurant and I need to cover up. I was in a lovely high neck top and a pair of white shorts, I was not in beach attire whatsoever. I appreciate if there is a specific dress code, and if I was not appropriate to that standard they were expecting, that should’ve been communicated from the beginning.
To allow us to be seated, then have to get our own menus, then further have to approach her in the restaurant to ask if we could order, to then proceed to follow me outside, begin taking my order and then abruptly cutting me off and telling me in disgust that I need to go home and change, then I can come back when I’m dressed appropriately was just humiliating. I was polite and apologised, even though I should not have.
I was embarrassed as I picked up my belongings and walked off to find another restaurant, feeling extremely self conscious and upset. I felt so lucky when I stumbled upon the restaurant ‘Adriatic Sushi • Oyster • Seafood’ which is about a 200 metre walk away from Antique. I had the most wonderful experience at Adriatic, with the most outstanding service.
I would not recommend Antique to my worst enemy. This was a terrible experience and as someone that is Croatian with a Croatian background, I was disgusted to have been treated in this way. If you’re looking for outstanding service, hospitality and incredible sushi, go to ‘Adriatic’, do not go to ‘Antique’, it was appalling.