yes yes yes - all of the reviews that speak badly of the club are correct

This was once for a very short period of time a fantastic club, when the original owner was present - it was set up by a very cool young guy who designed it all etc and had some other partners. After he got ousted, they have decided to put a 23 year old toff in charge!! brilliant idea - its his first job too! The door staff are thick and rude, there are three of the incompetent little girls to get through even though im sure if you asked them all to spell their names backwards they would find it bear on impossible.

The moronic owners (there are around 12 of them now because each is such a minor shareholder) have NO Idea how to run a club so instead they have left it to a child and his vile ugly entourage of wannabe glamour models and daddys girls..... This place has no class - the only people who go to it now are promoters drinking thier free alcohol and hoping to shag girls in the toilets! STAY WELL CLEAR OF THIS CLUB

I have to say this is by far the worst and most ridiculous place I have ever been! We too encountered the 'clip board bitch' and we should have taken that as a sign of things to come!

We went there on my sisters hen weekend and were told we were on the guest list and all 11 of us could get in free...we should have known! After waiting in the queue for 40 minutes we were told only 6 of us could get in free and all the other were to be charged £20!! Shocking but we paid it anyway and proceeded down the dark stair cases, congregated at the bottom of the stairs to make sure we had everyone and got shouted at twice by the burly bouncers to 'get out the way'!! We then moved into the 'chandellier bar' where I saw those hideous twins from Ladette to Lady and I should have known the level of pretentiousness that surrounded us! I cant tell you how many looks down peoples noses we got! Horrendously over capacity i was getting pushed from pillar to post & i nearly lost it at one girl who was purposely knocking into me.

£26 for two G&T's later we decided that this dark shite hole was no place for us, so we left...

The worst bit was yet to come! We physically could not get out of the door as there was so many people saying 'i wanna get out of this sh##t hole' and just barging their way through! my Mum's feet got lifted off the ground at one point from the force of people behind her.

The bouncer was pushing me too! absolute nightmare i wouldnt recommend this place to my worst enemy, if you want my honest advice this place is a pile of rubbish, nasty bouncers, pretentious snobby bitches on the door, over priced and dark, pretentious and to be honest pretty scary. Yeah great the decor is well done, but so what if there are too many people in there for you to see it!!

I dont even want to give amika one star but i cant figure out how to give it none!!

Very small, but perfectly formed, Amika is gorgeous in terms of decor. A lovely place for a relaxed evening with friends, but not ideal if it's a clubbing extravaganza you had in mind. For a start, there is no dance floor and space really is an issue with seating taking up far too much of what there is. The ambience is chilled and friendly. Yes, drinks are expensive, but that's to be expected of anywhere in Kensington.

I was there last night and this place is dreadful. In spite of having gone in quite drunk, this place sobered me up cos I was so bored! Pretentious prats, no dancefloor (how stupid! how can a club not have a place to dance?) overcrowded, dreadful DJs playing tacky music and drinks are mega expensive. Fair enough, the decor is v nice but this is the only thing this club has going for it.

I came to London just for a couple of weeks. Last Saturday my friend took me to Amika, from the outside I thought we were going to a normal club, but when I walked in the décor took my breath away. Wasn’t expecting much when I went (as I am partying a lot, been to a lot of clubs), but have to say how wonderful a place it is!
Excellent music, great atmosphere! Prices are higher than in West End, but you know what you are paying for! It is not an average club, it is a high class venue!

Hello. I agree with most reviewers here that this place is awful. I went there for the first time last night with 3 other girls. Why they have the nerve to charge £20 before 11pm I will never know, as when you get in there it isn't really that great inside and the drinks are sooo expensive. The music was bland and uninspiring too -just regular trendy monotone house but with no upbeat blends to get you motivated to move. This establishment just strikes me as being "greedy". The people inside the club are really young and have about 20 brain cells between them.

On top of that, when I was waiting outside after my night was over I saw an alarming display of bad behaviour from the bouncers. Some girl had accidentally left her coat and mobile phone in the club and the power-tripping bouncer refused to allow her entry back in!! It was 3am in the morning!

On their website they claim to be "unpretentious" - what a load of crap! If they were unpretentious they wouldn't start off badly by charging every single person regardless of being there on the guestlist and before 11pm and everything. It lacks the charm and ambience to be as revoltingly expensive as what it is, so it will probably do itself out of business at this rate.

full of pretty rough girls in their underwear, and a rather large amount of idiotic pretentious underage drinkers.
staff are rude, atomsphere awful and club is tacky. stay away.

Shame this club has followed many others - used to be great, but had one of the worst clubbing experiences in London last night. Way overcrowded with a very tacky, bordering on underage, crowd - and the particularly tasteless & cheap strippers/dancers with not so great bodies made this previously classy venue tasteless and cheap. Used to be a favourite - much better fun to be had just about anywhere else now!!

Shame this club has followed many others - used to be great, but had one of the worst clubbing experiences in London last night. Way overcrowded with a very tacky, bordering on underage, crowd - and the particularly tasteless & cheap strippers/dancers with not so great bodies made this previously classy venue tasteless and cheap. Used to be a favourite - much better fun to be had just about anywhere else now!!

The reviews below say it all. Amika is pretentiousness of the greatest form.

We got there 11pm last Saturday and were greeted by cold faced bouncers who shouted down the line to people as if they were new army recuits. We waited outside for over half an hour (similar length of wait for tables too) during which we were witness to a nasty drunken brawl that broke out on the doorstep of the club. You do not expect to see this kind of thing in this type of venue - then again, despite being located in Kensington, this is no place of class.

Eventually, our turn came for our meeting with the "clipboard bitch" (term borrowed from review below). She was so rude to my friend for no apparent reason, and when I asked what the problem was, she told me to step out of the line unless I wanted a punch in the face! Seriously, what kind of establishment is this?!

Amika has a lot to learn in terms of client relations. The manager does nothing to check the rudeness of his staff and when I spoke to him about our situation, the best he could do was to suggest we join the back of the queue. Not even an apology was offered to me. Go through that a second time? I don't think so! We had a much better night elsewhere.

Went to Amika last friday with a group of friends, we were met by an extremely arrogant man with a clipboard who was overly rude to everyone that went past him, however the bouncers were surprisingly pleasant. The club is amazing inside, the main room is massive with chandeliers dropping from a 30ft high ceiling, and then there is the vip room and the coctail bar aswell. Amika is definitely one to visit if you havent been before, but dont even think about going if your not on a table as they over capacitate the club to the extent where it is actually unpleasant to be inside.

the first time I went to Amika was in agust 2007 and i thought it was a great place,very chic , cool crowd,classy and yes!! i had a great evening ,as soon as the door staff saw me they invited me in and I was told not to bother to pay the £20 entrance fee,i went there two weeks ago ,and it was totally a different thing those two men at the door were so so rude to everyone and the people inside what i can only describe as sad ,i dont understand what happened to this club ,sorry !! you are out of my list and i wouldnt recommend it to anybody.a place only for the ones who dont know anything better.

Had read reviews and hoped to be proved wrong but was not. Absolute shocker of a club, especially for the prices. Clientele would be far better suited to Tiger Tiger (in spite of a great interior and friendly staff) and this is certainly not an "exclusive" venue for the "elite". They were over capacity to the point that it was uncomfortable. Do not go here. Plenty of far better places very close by.

Good Morning, and thanks for reading.
I went to Amika last night, and did not enjoy myself one bit.
Its not as if I'm not tapped into the London scene - I live in Baker Street and work in Knightsbridge, and go to all the clubs like Funky B, Aura, 24, Crystal etc, but Amika is by far the snottiest and unwelcoming of places.
Firstly, since Dane the Dainty Doorman, (or "clip-board bitch", as he was referred to in the queue last night!) got fired from Paper, Paper has really picked up.
It is less of a sausage fest in there for a start.

Anyway, we arrived at 11.30pm at Amika.
I had called through earlier that day myself, and was told a table for 6 (2 guys, 4 girls) had been arranged for me. Lovely.

When I got there I waited patiently to speak to "clip-board bitch", while he let a group of very metrosexual looking guys in.
While I waited to speak with Dane the Dainty Doorman, a bouncer started literally shouting at me to move away from him and stand on the pavement!
I explained that I was waiting to speak to Dane, and that I had a table booked.
He said to Dane "Are you waiting to see this person?", Dane answered weakly, "Errrr.... No".
"Can you get out onto the pavement, now!", were the next orders that were barked at me by the bouncer.

One of the girls we arrived with came over to see why I was being shouted at by a bouncer.
And he started on her.
He called her "mate", which she didn't like, and all this before we had even had a drink!
At that point, he turned to Dainty Dane, and said "these two aren't coming in tonight".
Now.... let me think.....Ah yes - power trip.
That would be it.

Guys - you are working at a bar, not saving lives, as the girl you were shouting at actually does. Get over it.

Worst club I have EVER been to in all the places I've lived and traveled. Felt kinda like a brothel. People neither mixed nor were encouraged to mix. The music was attrocious...and, um, didn't dancing cage-girls go out in the 90s? We got in free, but this place is not even worth the visit for the spectacle of watching the bizarre clientele.

Absolute rubbish. I cannot believe how rude the staff were. I have been to so many clubs in London but I have to give Amika 10 out of 10 for having employed the rudest staff.

Ok guys... First off let me just say if you can't be bothered reading further, this place is a massive No Go!



I'm a massive club fixture on the promo and event circuit and this place isn't even overated it just doesn't deserve a rating at all!



Firstly, decor?! If that's what you can call it. Staff are so rude, and not to mention classless and this VERY much extends to the ownership and management. Seriously, they're a joke, no money, no class types. How on earth did they manage to start a club?



In conclusion, rude, so not classy, bad music and overall the worst place I've ever been to. Try Penthouse, Boutique 60 or Chinawhites for a much better night.



Cheers!

People, seriously - DO NOT GO HERE



Ok so Amika is glam inside and the decor's pretty. But really - how seduced are you by leather sofas and a shiny floor? It's like an office reception with chandeliers and loud music.



The staff are incredibly rude, Which list are you on?!, one actually screamed at me. Of course if you're anything but utterly deferential you are immediately chucked out of the queue. They forget who pays their wages - and this has a knock on effect on the atmosphere which is very uptight and unfriendly. Come on guys you run a club, you're not saving lives.



Music average, drinks overpriced. There are better places to go. If you want something in High St Ken then Boutique 60 is just as glam without being so pretentious and only a few steps away.



I have quite a high tolerance of pretentious bars/clubs I'd say, but Amika is something else. Really people, don't bother....

Absolutely amazing. Like, ridiculously. The music incredible, the decor is stunning - with historical glamour in one room. Amika is huge with all these different really exclusive rooms. I had a seriously good time! The drinks of course are very expensive but only the big boys in town come here anyway. I got in for free as the girlies were all dressed very well and gorgeous.



Everyone kind of sums each other up at first but everyone relaxes and it's friendly for such a high-class club. There were a few celebrities there as well. If you can get in, Amika is utterly outstanding.

Just as view london said - Amika is really stylish and perhaps, I'm ashamed to say, too stylish for me! I popped up into the champage lounge and immediately felt a little out of place but I think if you're used to places like this then you'll enjoy it a lot. Amika is very plush and full of beautiful people. When I earn some good money, I'll be going back!