Sky-high dining
The pinnacle of fine dining
[London]
DINING OUT IS REACHING DIZZYING NEW HEIGHTS. Dinner in the Sky is the latest must-do experience for the adventure-hungry or super-rich. For £10,000, you can host your own sky-high, black-tie dinner party with gourmet grub and spectacular scenery. Perching around a massive table, 22 diners are suspended in mid-air by a crane with their feet dangling in the breeze and exposed to the elements. Three intrepid chefs serve the food from the middle of the table.
There have been dining events in Paris, Brussels, New York, Edinburgh and Budapest. Now Dinner in the Sky is coming to London on 20 September at the Southbank Centre. For a special members’ reduced-price of £60 per person, you can dine over London’s iconic skyline.
Based in Belgium, the floating restaurant can be driven to any destination in the world. David Ghysels, the Belgian organiser, says that diners are bored with run-of-the-mill restaurants, and experimental entrées alone aren’t enough: “It’s a little surreal, but we realised people wanted to try something different. So we came up with this idea – the sky’s the limit!”
Forbes magazine ranks Dinner in the Sky among the world’s most unusual restaurants, alongside Dans Le Noir in Paris and London, which literally leave their clientele in the dark. Set in a pitch-black room and run by blind or visually impaired waiters, the idea is you have to rely on touch, taste and smell.
Like Dans Le Noir, this is an intriguing culinary experience for those who expect more from their restaurants. But it’s definitely not for the faint-hearted. Get ready to take to the skies.
Britt Collins
To book tickets, visit www.southbankcentre.co.uk
