Sydney has a fantastic fine dining scene, but if you’re looking for a meal that’ll taste good and impress all your Instagram followers, then you can’t go past Bondi Icebergs.
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on the southern end of The Harbour City’s most famous beach, the iconic swimming club is also home to one of Sydney’s best (and most beautiful) restaurants. As we’ve discussed before here at DMARGE, it’s the perfect place if you want to people watch as well as be watched, and maybe even eat some tiramisù.
But there are simply some things you don’t want to watch while you’re eating… Like a vaguely pornographic photoshoot as you’re tucking into lunch. Sadly, that’s exactly what some diners at Icebergs had to endure yesterday.
Rory Warnock, a Bondi-based performance and wellness coach, shared how during his lunch, an influencer and her photographer decided to take a few candid shots right by his table, the influencer wearing nothing but some bizarre, bum-revealing pants. There’s probably a joke about ‘buns’ in here somewhere…
The eagle-eyed among you might also notice her unusual footwear. Yes, those are indeed high-heel Crocs: specifically, they’re from a collaborative capsule with Balenciaga, they’re called the Crocs Madame (an appropriate pun, considering the circumstances), and they’re worth AU$875. You can’t make this shit up. This is peak Bondi, people.
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All jokes aside, it’s pretty poor taste to cause such a scene at a restaurant when people are eating like this. As much as Bondi influencers might like to think otherwise, the world is not your photo booth: it’s just disrespectful to diners and staff who are just trying to get through lunch.
That being said, it’s these kinds of capers that make Bondi, well Bondi, so perhaps we should hop off our pulpit and calm ourselves down with a mocktail. Also: it’s possible the model/influencer had permission for the photoshoot (though we very much doubt it).
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Still, it’s not as bad as the usual influencer caper of trying to extort free meals out of restaurants in exchange for ‘exposure’ – like this social media scoundrel tried (and failed) to do in Noosa…
It’s also not the first cheeky stunt this year to go a little awry, as you can see in the video below.
Influencers face deportation from Bali after ‘cheeky’ stunt backfires…