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Hippopotamus Restaurant and Cocktail Bar

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Hippopotamus Restaurant and Cocktail Bar

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The art of fine dining

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Sit harbourside in the heart of Wellington’s cultural hub in the creative haven and design driven hotel, QT Museum Wellington. Indulge in cool luxury, with claimed French inspired dining at Hippopotamus, on Level Three of QT Museum Wellington.

Hippopotamus where fine-dining meets French flair under the direction of Executive Chef Laurent Loudeac.



"Fine-dining option at the QT Wellington offering French fare & high tea amid formal, old-world decor."
Address: Level 3 of QT Museum Wellington, 90 Cable Street -, Wellington 6011
Phone: +64 4 802 8935
moc.tve@notgnillewtq_sumatopoppih
State: Wellington
Zip Code: 6011


Opening Hours

Monday: 06:30 - 22:30
Tuesday: 06:30 - 22:30
Wednesday: 06:30 - 22:30
Thursday: 06:30 - 22:30
Friday: 06:30 - 22:30
Saturday: 06:30 - 22:30
Sunday: 06:30 - 22:30

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Reviews
We have had a high tea here before the place was revamped recently. It was great experience. On returning we found the food incredibly poor. Not one of the high tea foods were appetising. It felt like foods that were baked well ahead of time so they would last and be easy to serve. There was no freshness, nothing delightful. Very disappointing. Compare this photo with the photo in the previous review from a year ago.
I have visited Hippopotamus twice during my stay at QT. The first visit was a High Tea celebration for my 40th with my friends and we all enjoyed the food and the service so much. The presentation is of course incredible and what this restaurant is known for -the decor is stunning and unique and inspired you to dress up for the occasion. The teapots are stunning and the teas served are beautifully fragrant and reach in flavour. The chocolate themed High Tea was quite unique ad you do not see chocolate utilized in savouries often in NZ and it was a real treat. My favourite by far was the duck Pate that balanced so well with the dark chocolate paste. From the sweets the choux pastry and the dark chocolate rum baba. I would definetly go back again for another celebration. The second visit was the breakfast with my friend. I had eggs Benedict with a swap for a sourdough instead of the English muffin. The eggs were perfectly cooked, there was a generous serving of bacon and the hollandaise souse was quite unique comparing regular cafes. The barista coffee was full bodied and had excellently frothed milk. We definitely felt full and satisfied .
I visited Wellington for my 30th birthday and decided to celebrate in the best way by treating myself to a lovely high tea at the Hippopotamus restaurant. I had such a wonderful experience, the atmosphere was incredible along with the view, lovely staff and of course the high tea itself was absolutely delicious!Food: 5/5
Really nice ambiance and views. What was a little disappointing was the dine in the dark as it just wasn't dark enough. Perhaps they thought it might be difficult for us to eat?Food: 3/5
I went to the Hippopotamus for a high tea. I found the experience lovely. The teas were nice. The food was fine. It would have been nice to have the teas coming around a bit more, but maybe I'm a fast drinker. The thing that let it all down was that the high tea was advertised to me at one price and then when we were seated and there I was suddenly told a new price with a $20 increase from the original price. This was extremely disappointing! My advice to people going here is that you make sure you are ready to spend more than they are advertising.
Great venue, delicious main course but very poor and expensive desserts. Everything looked fabulous but stale & leathery choux pastry and confusion of ingredients was a massive disappointment for all 4 of us.Food: 4/5
We went to Hippopotamus for dinner. Their place is very elegant and the decorations are well presented. We decided to have the Theatre menu. I don't know if my expectations were too high but I was expecting a WOW of them creating our plates Infront of us. We were presented with one of the staff members plating our dish Infront of us, no effort was given or it wasn't entertaining or a WOW. He just cut our meat and served it to us. This did make me disappointed with the theatre menu and it kind of spoiled my night or enjoyment of the meal. We thought some of the meal was going to be cooked in front of us not just cut. Don't get me wrong the service and staff were really friendly and nice. I just think they need to add a wow factor to the theatre menu. For a few dollars more you can do their two courses and get two courses instead of one half presented meal..
food was decent - rlly nice breakfast: better than average western breakkie - but AMAZING art and interior designing!!!! Must go for exceptional ambience and view!!
We booked 4 weeks in advance for the taster menu and confirmed twice via email so they called 30mins before we turned up and said there is no taster menu. We where dressed up so decided to go anyway. Food was over priced and tiny portions. I left hungry and cocktails where terrible the food was fine but took a very long time to come out. Definitely won't bother going back. Maybe it under new management now cause my partner says it was great years ago. Also furniture was ripped and glass table tops scratched and broken. Not impressed
Very expensive for such small portions. Very slow service, took 30 minutes for drinks to come after seeing them sit on the bar for 10 minutes and nearly an hour for our bread which you also have to pay $14 for. We were contemplating just paying for the drinks and leaving as we were so hungry waiting for them to serve the bread and entree. We didn’t even want to order dessert at the end even though we were still hungry as we figured it would probably arrive as breakfast.
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