If you were given a pair of free tickets to this dining site, would you use them?
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July 2nd, 2013
Would you go up there for a free dinner?
Forget alternatives like “I’d take the tickets and sell them.” The question is: would you seriously consider dining this way even once, if cost were irrelevant?
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No, fucking weirdoes with nowt else better to do than seek attention from pointless pursuits.
Nope. I can barely even stand on a chair to change a light-bulb. I have put blankets around the chair when it is absolutely necessary to get on a chair.
Here is the funny part. I skateboarded for 20+ years and flinging myself off a set of steps 6 feet tall where the odds of me crashing was around 90%. No problem with that.
Standing on a chair freaks me the fuck out. I need a new psychiatrist.
I’m terrified of heights, so no way. If that wasn’t the case though, I’d totally do it!
No thank you. The food is the only factor that sounds tempting.
Um…. I have to pee. Can you point me to the Men’s edge?
Yes, I would so do that. It looks like fun, besides its not the falling that hurts, it’s the hitting the ground that hurts. I like to take on certain dangers.
Yeah no.
Just look at how close all the seats are. I need my distance.
And then you would have to deal with questions like “So, how did you get to be here.”
“Oh, I got some free tickets.”
I’d consider it… depending on the location and scenery, as well as the weather. My fiancé is really bad about heights, but there might be one or two chefs he’d be willing to do that in order to try their food.
I would think that the wind up there would be blowing the food and utensils around, which doesn’t sound like fun. I am afraid of heights so the thrill might be thrilling, but as far as eating a serious meal and having things blowing around, no thank you.
Can I bring my mother-in-law ??
ragingloli, you apparently haven’t seen my “Please pass the salt” move…
Probably not. I am not afraid of heights, but I would not want to be stuck up in the air worried about not dropping anything and I can’t go to the bathroom for an hour. I assume it is at least an hour if it is a gourmet meal. Going up to see the sights and then dining back on the ground sounds better to me. If I had a friend who really wanted to do it I might join her if she wanted someone along, more for her than me. My husband doesn’t like heights, he would never do it. He will go on a cable car, and climb a ladder, but something like that I can’t see him ever doing.
I would try the experience but the food looks too fancy for my liking.
Wow! There’s nothing between the diners’ chairs and the wild blue yonder.
Yes, I’d do this in a heartbeat.
The grad student in me wants to say “hell yes” to a free meal, but the nervous nelly in me realizes I would probably be too skeered of heights to enjoy myself.
I’m not particularly bothered by heights, and I can eat a meal without having to run to the bathroom, and as long as I like the other diners (or at least can tolerate them, which is all I can do with some), the closeness wouldn’t particularly bother me. And I expect it would at least be quiet, which would be a huge plus in my opinion – nothing ruins a good dinner out than to be seated at a table where you have to shout across the table to be heard in what should be a simple conversation.
Still, I doubt that I’d do it. I don’t need to be a spectacle to those on the ground who aren’t part of the event. However, I’d change my mind if this were going to be done over the Quabbin Reservoir or some other relatively gorgeous and not-so-much-in-the-public-eye waterway.
In May my wife and I went to the top of the Willis Tower (formerly the Sears Tower) in Chicago. They have two clear plexiglass little rooms where you can just step out of the side of the building and, if you want, have your photo taken (which we did) surrounded by nothing but open air and the city far below.
No food was offered, but at $350.00 each, I’d rather ride back down on the elevator and get a hot dog on the street…
Haha I love heights, I’d do this. I don’t quite understand how winds don’t blow the food and wine glasses everywhere though.
Look at the texture of the placemats. I wondered if everything on the table has a Velcro bottom.
I wouldn’t care to dine 15 feet off the ground, never mind 150. How someone even came up with this bizarre idea defies my imagination.
@OneBadApple, my son and his friend ate there, and I could hardly stand to look at the pictures they took.
I was wondering why the placemats were all fuzzy looking…well, that would make sense. Maybe that’s why the portions seem so small, so you can hold em down with your fork or something.
@OneBadApple There is something similar in Tokyo, a glass floor. My husband could not walk onto it.
I think something is being built at the Grand Canyon, maybe it is already done, out over the edge so you are suspended above it.
No. Not so much because of the height, but because it looks really uncomfortable and too dependent on the weather. If the rain doesn’t dilute your wine, the wind will blow the sushi off your plate.
@JLeslie Relative to the Grand Canyon, I think you are referring to the Sky Walk built and run privately by the Native American Hualapai Tribe. It is a horseshoe-shaped walkway with a clear floor. Several people on Trip Advisor said they were disappointed in it. No personal belongings of any kind (including cameras) are allowed, and at $75.00 per person (excuse the pun), a little steep. We were at the Canyon about a week after Chicago, but decided to skip this attraction.
Speaking of getting your adrenaline moving, check out ‘Edgewalk’ at the CN Tower in Toronto….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IV0J3XXxMxE
We were at the Willis Tower in 2011 and went out in the glass platforms also. My fiancé was nervous just standing there, but when he took out his camera and looked at it through the lens he didn’t have that queasy response anymore… It was interesting.
The CN Tower had a glass floor when I was there around 2002, that walk around the edge wasn’t available back then. But just the class floor was cool enough.
$75?! I am too cheap to pay that price.
@hearkat I like to think that I could handle that Edgewalk thing well enough, but I wouldn’t want to have to count on that Sonjay guy in a firefight !
@JLeslie “Too cheap” ??.....Nah, I think probably too SMART….
I saw this advertised couple of month ago, only the one I saw was in Vegas. I love heights, but… It’s hard enough to get decent service at sea level, much less while dangling 150 feet off the ground on an oversized window cleaner’s scaffold crammed with strangers. Considering all the little mishaps that can and do happen between prep and patron in a normal kitchen and diningroom, the logistics would be a nightmare. Add a couple of loud drunks into the mix and it would be intolerable up there. You are basically held captive by staff until it is over. And are we to piss over the side, or have they those fine-scented His & Her Port-a-Potties?
No way in hell would I subject myself and my date to this.
Those people look sad, desperate & ridiculous.
Be hilarious if a huge flock of birds buzzed them for kicks #deserved #getouttamyspace #losers
Sure, I’d try it. I once dined at a beautifully-set table at the top of a mountain in the Rockies (we hiked it up; long story), and it was ridiculous and fun. The wind was crazy, though. We had to hold on to everything so it wouldn’t blow away. Surely these platform diners have the same problem?
The dinner wouldn’t even get off the ground if the wind were blowing more than about 5–7 mph, I think. Any more than that would turn the whole contraption into a giant sail. A giant, heavy sail loaded with people and very liable to topple the crane. Even 5–7 mph might be too strong a wind.
@Jeruba I noticed, but do we know whether or not the platform is sheltered from wind?
Well, in the picture there appears to be only a slight roof (can’t tell if it’s porous) containing the lighting elements. Otherwise it appears to be wide open.
Just looking at it makes me feel a little queasy. And that’s without thinking about giant sails.
The fiancé has looked at some of the photos from the website, and is adamantly refusing – even if it were a free ticket and the dinner was being prepared by the chef he would most like to experience.
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