+1 on the Marriott...

Had drinks there two weeks ago, overpriced but can't beat the view...

I'll echo the comment on the Marquis in NYC - I've been living out of this hotel for 2 weeks now as my movers only came the other day. The restaurant itself is actually pretty decent food & great views of the city. There's an $8 cover for non-guest or non-diners for sitting at the bar after 8pm, I think. It opens at 5pm & they offer sunday brunch (which is $59/pp, I think).

Good view & would recommend it...reservations probably necessary for busier event days.

Surprised no one mentioned the Stratosphere in Vegas!

http://www.stratospherehotel.com/Hot...p-of-the-world - depsite living in Vegas for 2.5 yrs, I never ate there.

I am not a big fan of buffets, but the Sydney Tower Buffet Restaurant at the top of Sydney Tower was amazing. ^

Anyone ever tried this? Not a revolving restaurant per se, but definitely a table with a view.

http://www.dinnerinthesky.com/dits_dinner/index.php

Personally Cloud9 in Vancouver is one of my celebration restaurants of choice. The food to my taste is competent+, the view is stellar, and I very much like some of the service staff (several of whom have been there for many years.)

I have visited four. In order of preference

N Seoul Tower - S Korea
CN Tower - Canada
Le Royal Meridien - UAE
Radisson Shanghai - China

An architect friend of mine once described these as revolting restaurants. From my experience the label fits. I still remember splurging over 30 years ago at the top of the BT tower in London to receive an atrocious meal complete with canned peas. I suspect that it's improved since then, if it's still there, like many English restaurants.

I do recall having a decent meal many years ago at the Marriott Marquis on Times Square. I can't comment on value as an advertising rep paid for the meal back when I was worth being wined & dined.

I also remember as a child being at a revolving restaurant in my hometown of Edmonton, Alberta (at the top of the then Chateau Lacombe) and when it initially opened one revolution took only about 30 minutes. It was fun! They soon slowed it down.

Top of Vancouver on a clear day or night is spectacular (in my totally biased opinion) but the food could never measure up to the view. Still I've been there perhaps 3 times for dinner just for the view. Don't bother on a rainy day.

I recommend JJ Astor in Duluth, MN. It is on the 16th floor of the Radisson hotel downtown and was recently renovated. I've been there twice and really enjoyed the afforable food, friendly service, and on a bright summer day, the view of lift bridge and park point is very nice, especially when freighters are pulling in to port.

The food is nothing more than bar food but the revolving restaurant atop the Doubletree Hotel in Crystal City offers wonderful views of DC, the Pentagon and flights going into and out of DCA... There was a fun FT get-together there a few years ago...

Thanks to this thread I mentioned Giratorio to some friends and had the surprise of my day when they all got excited and said we should go...as a laugh.

Interestingly, and maybe because our expectations were SO low, it was a blast. We had great drinks and very good food with good service (a rarity in Chile). The bill was quite high, though.

The key, I suppose, is to go with friends.

But I can recommend it.

+1 on Times Sq. Marriott.

Also, just back from New Orleans. Would have liked to know about Carousel bar last week. So it goes....

Top of the World
 

In Las Vegas is very good. A little pricey but the view makes it worth it.

I have two that I would recommend:

1. JJ Astor in Duluth MN. Excellent menu and has new decor. The view is the best Duluth has to offer!!
2. Stratosphere in Vegas. You're paying for the view, but we enjoyed it with friends.

Summit Bar/Restaurant in Sydney
 

In addition to Sydney Tower, Sydney has a second revolving bar/restaurant called Summit. It's not as high, but still has amazing views, especially at sunset.

It's cheaper, a tad less touristy and I'd recommend going there for drinks rather than for dinner. Food and service is mediocre, but the cocktails are good.

Agree on the view but be sure you check the weather report before you go or you may see nothing but clouds. Lauterbrunnen Valley one of my favorite places. Visited for the fifth time last summer.

Years and years ago I went to one in Houston called The Spindletop. The food was ok - nothing special. I'm not sure if it's even around any more. Not sure which building it was housed in.

I have not done it. Last year there was such a thing forva few weeks in Rio de Janeiro, featuring a different local chef every night. It was a grand success. A couple friends who did it claimed it to be an excellent concept.

Many years ago I really liked Juno's Revolving Restaurant in Kowloon. My taste was I'll-developed then so I would not have known the difference, but I loved the view.

It no longer operates as a restaurant/bar, but I remember going to the buffet at the Crown Room atop the Fairmont Hotel tower in San Francisco.

Me too, in 2005. Never again. One of the *worst* eating experiences of my life. Nasty expensive deep fried junk......

Absolutely confirmed as two of the best places to eat in the world. :)

The revolving restaurant in Honolulu, Seattle (Space Needle) and Toronto were great!

A friend told me that she took her mom to the Seattle needle restaurant, and put her purse next to her chair while they ate. Problem was, she put it down on the fixed floor, and while she was eating, she was moving away from her purse the whole time! She looked down, and of course her purse was 'gone'.

Management did reunite her with it. Funny, though.

I agree, Seattle view A+, food D.

The best I have been to was in Quebec City...

Worst was Sydney...awful awful awful!

The only one I've tried is the R66 restaurant in Hong Kong, last year http://www.r66.com.hk/home.html

Looking at the website it's currently under renovation, though.

I had a blast, but that was probably more to do with the company and the fact that our visit coincided with the nightly(?) skyscraper light show. Neither food nor ambiance were stellar, but nor were they especially terrible. It would have been really overpriced for a static restaurant, but I didn't feel like they'd ripped us off.

A Few More
 

The food in the Calgary Tower revolve was surprisingly good

Many of the Portman cylindrical hotels such as Bonaventure

in LA & 1 along the water in Detroit as well as Peachtree Plaza

in Atlanta have top floor revolves

Agree.. food and service okay at best. But for a drink and a great view, the View it wonderful.

FYI.. do not book a room on the top floor thinking you can take a flight of stairs up to the View. ;-)

Over time, I've developed some negative guidelines for revolving rooftop resturants....

A. The drinks always cost more.

B. The food seems to usually cost more, and rarely has the quality matched the price, while occasionally revolving degenerated to revolting.

C. There seems to be a general tendency toward the dispaly on ineptitude by the staff of such joints. For want of better cause, I'll ascribe it dizziness caused by extended periods in orbit.

D. Upon departure, I'm always unsure how to get to the elevator, but terribly glad when I find it, and comforted by the knowledge that terra firma is but a short descent away.

Given the current excesses of chic-dom and pop culture displayed by the current crop of developers in Las Vegas, I'm surprised we've not been treated to a revolving hotel, making finding my room after a few Martinis, a bottle of Cabernet and a brandy even more difficult. Once every 24 hours is more than adequate revolution for me.

It's coming- in Croatia:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...ing-hotel.html

Although not revolving the Sirocco restaurant in Bangkok has great city views.

I went to the revolving restaurant (the space exists but it no longer revolves) in what was then the Westin Detroit in 1990 and found it to be a decent steakhouse. There weren't many options in downtown Detroit at that time.

Then, I was quite impressed by the food at the Olympiaturm in Munich in 1991 - so impressed that I started looking for revolving restaurants on all my travels. Needless to say, I was quickly disabused of the notion that revolving restaurants had good food.

Here is the current website for the restaurant in the Olympiaturm (which I have not been to since 1991 so I can't vouch for the food now). Flyertalkers will appreciate that it seems to have two levels business and first. :D

http://www.restaurant181.com/181/Business/

Quite a few have 2 levels but generally 1 is for drinks & the other for food

Yanggakdo Hotel, Pyongyang. So-so food, dangerously cheap booze and karaoke too. :cool: :o

I believe the reason why they are charging higher prices has more to do with the setting of where the dining takes place as oppose to the quality of the food/drink being prepared & served.

TPA Marriott has The View at CK's. It is also overpriced, mediocre food.

The Carousel at Hotel Monteleone in NOLA is a little too fast for me. Can't imagine being drunk spinning with that lurch it has.

Al Dawaar Restaurant at the Hyatt Regency - Dubai
It's a revolving restaurant, and since the hotel is right at the Corniche, you get views of the Gulf and the city (rather nice views overall).

The food is an international buffet, above average for some delicacies, but nothing particularly outstanding.

The service is good - competent and unobtrusive.

The best part of this restaurant's ambience is the highly eclectic dining crowd that adds a certain cultural vibe to the setting. Also, the restaurant has very low lighting and so one has to be a bit careful to make sure they return to the right table from the buffet station.

We have one here in Perth. Worth going to once but after that the novelty wears off

Most revolving restaurants rely on their revolvability and not their food