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.

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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.