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Yikes - a new eating experience

If you have any fear of heights, don't go to this restaurant. From the UK Daily Mail:

Pie in the sky: The 150ft-high restaurant
A shrill scream pierces the afternoon air. Gingerly, I prise my sweaty hands away from my eyes to find all of my dinner companions staring at me in shock. It's then that I realise the noise is coming from me.

"Are you OK?" asks the young man to my left. "That was some scream." Paralysed by fear, I am physically unable to reply or even to blush. Instead, I screw my eyes shut and emit a long, low moan.

The reason for my distress is simple: I have foolishly accepted the worst dinner party invitation of my life. But it's not the other guests that are so unbearable, it's the location.

Instead of a sitting round a cosy kitchen table, we are dangling from a crane 150ft in the sky, complete with dining chairs, table, crockery and even a slick-suited waiter who pours us a glass of wine as we swing gently in the breeze.

Dinner In The Sky is for people who expect more from their restaurants than four concrete walls and a solid floor. Instead, diners perch around a massive table, which is suspended from a crane high up in the air.

It sounds completely insane, but as the most unusual - and entirely legal - way of getting high over dinner, it is the new must-do experience for the super-rich and adventure-hungry who yearn for something a little more extreme at mealtimes.

Although based in Belgium, the "restaurant" can be driven to any destination in the world.

There have already been dining events in Paris and Brussels, while New York and Niagara Falls are on the agenda.

Their website is here: Dinner in the Sky Sounds like fun but I wouldn't want to pay much more than $30 for the meal and the experience. Especially at $10,790 for just the eight hour use of the 'table' not counting the catering fees (and this is in Belgium so there is an additional 21% VAT tax added...) Given that it seats 22 people, you are looking at $593 per seat (including the VAT) for just the ride up and back down again. I'll pass... Posted by DaveH at April 30, 2007 6:53 PM