Over the years I have been to a few revolving restaurants and it has become almost a hobby with me. If there is a chance to visit one I will take that opportunity.
My first one was of course in my home city of Adelaide in the suburb of Glenelg. The building itself has a rather fascinating history. It was labelled a "white elephant" when its construction stopped for a number of years. There were also rumours of an intended death when a plane plunged into the sea with a couple of persons involved in the building. When it finally was completed the restaurants also had a chequered history with it being referred to as the "revolting" restaurant at times. However I must say that the few times we dined or lunched there we were always happy.
Canberra: Our capital city has a revolving restaurant atop telstra tower which is on top of Black Mountain. As one expects of Canberra it is very clean. We only had a desert there but that alone was rather impressive.
Hobart: A rather anaemic casino is topped by their revolving restaurant. It did have wonderful views, unfortunately I can only remember the strong voiced old biddy on the table next to us who kept talking about the cartoons of Leunig. As much as I liked his cartoons it spoiled our lunch there.
Blue mountains: Its a bit of a Clayton's revolving restaurant; but it does have a revolving platform even though it is hardly off the ground.
Gold coast: This one sits on top of one of Gold Coast better hotels and its views are spectactular even though we found that in the evening half the time you look out to the sea which of course was dark.
Perth: In the CBD it had plenty of good views and we liked the menu.
Sydney: On top of centrepoint tower I found this perhaps Australias most exiting revolving restaurant with brilliant views of a brilliant city.
Hong Kong: Amazingly Hong Kong has only the one revolving restaurant. It is on the island part of HK in the Hopewell building. The lunch Smorgasboard was very good and reasonably priced. It amazed me that we were 62 floors above the ground yet in the distance one can see buildings which tower way above us being built on the mountains inside.
Penang: This one was on top a ten year old building which was mainly empty due to a new centre having been built across the road. However the restaurant was still nice; it looked like some renovations were taking place when we visited some years ago.
Kuala Lumpur: KL tower houses this revolving restaurant. Another restaurant which offers a very good lunch smorgasboard at good prices. I was somewhat concerned when the platform came to a clunking stop, but I think they reverse direction every now and then. Beutiful views of the city and surrounds. Also nice grounds around the tower for those who wish to walk off the calories they just acquired.
Auckland: We'll be there early next year.
My first one was of course in my home city of Adelaide in the suburb of Glenelg. The building itself has a rather fascinating history. It was labelled a "white elephant" when its construction stopped for a number of years. There were also rumours of an intended death when a plane plunged into the sea with a couple of persons involved in the building. When it finally was completed the restaurants also had a chequered history with it being referred to as the "revolting" restaurant at times. However I must say that the few times we dined or lunched there we were always happy.
Canberra: Our capital city has a revolving restaurant atop telstra tower which is on top of Black Mountain. As one expects of Canberra it is very clean. We only had a desert there but that alone was rather impressive.
Hobart: A rather anaemic casino is topped by their revolving restaurant. It did have wonderful views, unfortunately I can only remember the strong voiced old biddy on the table next to us who kept talking about the cartoons of Leunig. As much as I liked his cartoons it spoiled our lunch there.
Blue mountains: Its a bit of a Clayton's revolving restaurant; but it does have a revolving platform even though it is hardly off the ground.
Gold coast: This one sits on top of one of Gold Coast better hotels and its views are spectactular even though we found that in the evening half the time you look out to the sea which of course was dark.
Perth: In the CBD it had plenty of good views and we liked the menu.
Sydney: On top of centrepoint tower I found this perhaps Australias most exiting revolving restaurant with brilliant views of a brilliant city.
Hong Kong: Amazingly Hong Kong has only the one revolving restaurant. It is on the island part of HK in the Hopewell building. The lunch Smorgasboard was very good and reasonably priced. It amazed me that we were 62 floors above the ground yet in the distance one can see buildings which tower way above us being built on the mountains inside.
Penang: This one was on top a ten year old building which was mainly empty due to a new centre having been built across the road. However the restaurant was still nice; it looked like some renovations were taking place when we visited some years ago.
Kuala Lumpur: KL tower houses this revolving restaurant. Another restaurant which offers a very good lunch smorgasboard at good prices. I was somewhat concerned when the platform came to a clunking stop, but I think they reverse direction every now and then. Beutiful views of the city and surrounds. Also nice grounds around the tower for those who wish to walk off the calories they just acquired.
Auckland: We'll be there early next year.
If you want a postcard from the next revolving restaurant we visit please let me know.
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