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Dinner is served - 165 feet up

Nicholas Wolaver, Edelman

Dinner in the Sky: A chef prepares meals while diners enjoy panoramic views harnessed in seats that swivel 180 degrees, suspended via a crane.

Here's a dining concept that'll make your head — if not your stomach — spin: It's dinner at a table suspended 165 feet in the air with chairs that swivel 180 degrees.

Dubbed Dinner in the Sky, the attraction is making its U.S. debut Monday in Orlando at the annual International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions convention. About 25,000 attendees are expected at the one-stop-shopping event, where the amusement industry rolls out new thrill rides and related products.
The high-flying dining venue was introduced in Europe last year and consists of a platform suspended from a crane. Guests are harnessed into 22 seats, with space in the center for a chef and two helpers. With local officials' blessings, the platform can be transported to just about anywhere the crane can maneuver. One recent spot: in front of the Amiens Cathedral in France, with dinner prepared by a three-star Michelin chef.

Ghysels sees all sorts of US possibilities for the dangling restaurant, including air space over the Grand Canyon, Niagara Falls and golf courses.

'I think human beings always like to see what's happening from the air,' he says. 'And there are so many wonderful natural spots in the U.S. Dinner in the Sky could go anywhere.'
The restaurant ( dinnerinthesky.com) belongs firmly in the special-occasion category, however. The cost for eight hours is about $11,444 — not including catering.

I can't say anything other than NO
I saw this in the WTF thread, but without the full set of pics and the explanation, so I thank you for that Coign.

I love my food, and I can't imagine spoiling it with the sheer terror of being suspended that high. NO THANK YOU.

I'll go to the Fat Duck at Bray for my Michelin starred experience when I have the money. How jaded does your palate need to be to want this?

(please note I have a fear of heights and am a physical coward, and I post from this perspective, rather than trying to preach to other people about how to spend their money)

Good lord! No, not me, not anytime, forget it.
The guy in the white shirt and tie looks like he is about to toss his cookies.

Oh, I'd do it. I wouldn't pay a bunch of money to make it happen but if the opportunity arose I would jump at the chance. Um, jumps is perhaps not the right word.

HOLY F....

I'd be ready to toss my cookies... but there's no way I'd be hanging my head over the edge of that thing to do so. (Someone should mention to my husband that if he ever thinks this would be a romantic idea, it will end in disaster for literally everyone involved.)

Now THAT I could do. All enclosed and safe and with views and all.

I had Christmas dinner at the Restaurant at the Top of the World in the late Two Towers after all.

It's being suspended that makes me retch.

I can see, eventually, one of these dinners ending badly...

"It was a freak gust of wind!"

So if I get this right, they are offering to suspend you from a crane for eight hours, with no freedom of movement and no washroom facilities for $11,444 and you also have to pay extra for the food and culinary personnel? I wonder what genius came up with this idea.