
Atari founder Nolan Bushnell's latest restaurant uWink opened yesterday in Woodland Hills, California. Bushnell's previous restaurant Chuck E. Cheese was centered around arcade games, pizza and animatronic animals. His latest is geared more towards casual games and booze. There's food, too, but the key here is booze. The restaurant has a nice big bar, stocked with various types of alcohol. The drink menu comes via touch screen, so go ahead and order that 11th Tom Collins. You'll get no sass from the touch screen!
Kotaku reader Matthew was on hand at uWink's opening and sent us a review (after the jump) and a smattering of pictures (also after the jump).
The restaurant was pretty neat very nice staff and atmosphere. It wasn't a terrible location (except it's in one the crappiest malls in the Valley). On the interactive and gaming side there's a touch screen where you order everything and play games while u wait.The touch screen is pretty responsive except that some of the games require fast response time and it didn't really allow for that. Otherwise you can play something of the equivelant of fancy cell phone games with other members of your party such as the Amazing Trivia Game and a game called Shootout where you toss a basketball. Or you can play by yourself.
All the prices of food are clearly displayed as well as there nutritional value. The only real problem my friend and I had was that when we ordered a "build it yourself burger," the prices of the extra stuff such as bacon and cheese was not tallied, but did show up on the bill. So we disputed it saying that it [the touch screen] never told us, and we got a burger taken off the bill. Everything else went pretty smoothly.
Some stuff was non-operational such as certain games or incorrect pictures as it was there first day so I don't hold it against them. Oh, and they give you RFID cards to order your food with. You just swipe it on the side of your console, and it will split the bill for you. Also, the checkout function didn't work so we had to go up to the front desk and have human interaction that sort of ruined the whole experience. But other than that I would go back again.
Oh, and one more thing: They said they were gonna have something else outside. So I guess that wasn't finished either. The pics with those white orb things on the table—that's supposed to be for some sort of projection game like the ones on the floor in malls.






















