Arbitrageur Wine Room, Wellington

Over confident staff who had forgotton how to be nice. A lot of hype and too many mirrors. Good for the pretentious staff to look at themselves though.

Athough the (rather overpriced)food and ambience were good, the staff were the rudest I have struck for some time. They seemed to have a problem with everything we did (despite us being courteous and co-operative) and we all got the impression the waitress was keen for us to leave as soon as possible, which is unacceptable when you are paying $75 a head for dinner and it's only 9pm!(and there were other free tables nearby). On several occasions the waitress stalked off when we did not make an instant decision, rather than politely asking if she should come back in 10 minutes. I idly picked some wax off the table, which had leaked out of the candle holder and the waitress came and made a big performance of wiping it up, asking sarcastically if we'd 'had a wee accident?'. It spoilt my night. When another group of friends were paying the manager demanded that just one person pay (for 30 people!!!).Only go here if you like being treated with disdain. Fiona Mathieson Hataitai Wellington