# World's Highest Restaurant Opens in Dubai **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 25, 2011, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-highest-restaurant-opens-in-dubai/568880 "2011-01-25T03:57:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2011, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-highest-restaurant-opens-in-dubai/568880/1 "2011-01-25T03:57:24Z")
Story [here](http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.4f8b988b9ebd1a5c9a9eba1574013bc8.2b1&show_article=1). In the world’s tallest building of course, the Burj Khalifa. “422 metres (1,350 feet) up in the sky on the 122nd floor.” Oddly, the restaurant itself is not named, but I suspect you’ll have no trouble finding the place. If you just want to go up to the observation deck two floors above, it’s US$27. “At least” 27 bucks, whatever that means. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2011, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-highest-restaurant-opens-in-dubai/568880/2 "2011-01-25T04:06:06Z")
I thought the world’s highest restaurant was in Amsterdam… ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2011, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-highest-restaurant-opens-in-dubai/568880/3 "2011-01-25T04:57:08Z")
Or San Francisco! Damn hippies, grumble, grumble. ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2011, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-highest-restaurant-opens-in-dubai/568880/4 "2011-01-25T05:01:19Z")
[This place](http://www.visittelluride.com/things-to-do/dining-nightlife/alpino-vino-winter-only) has it beat by 10,000, more or less… ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2011, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-highest-restaurant-opens-in-dubai/568880/5 "2011-01-25T05:03:08Z")
That’s cheating. ---
**Author:** ![Peremensoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@Peremensoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peremensoe)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2011, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-highest-restaurant-opens-in-dubai/568880/6 "2011-01-25T05:11:50Z")
Yeah, 422 meters (or so) above sea level ain’t high at all. The Mexican place down the street from me is more than twice as high. ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2011, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-highest-restaurant-opens-in-dubai/568880/7 "2011-01-25T05:15:44Z")
Nah…it’s just taking advantage of the natural terrain 🙂 And anyway, those guys are just posers anyway. There are at least six listed on [this page](http://www.travelchinaguide.com/cityguides/tibet/lhasa/restaurant.htm) that have it beat… ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2011, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-highest-restaurant-opens-in-dubai/568880/8 "2011-01-25T05:19:01Z")
To get back to (or at least in the vicinity of) the OP’s topic…have they actually started using that building for anything more than a platform to launch fireworks off of? OK, apparently they’ve got a restaurant and a hotel, but is anybody actually patronizing them? ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2011, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-highest-restaurant-opens-in-dubai/568880/9 "2011-01-26T02:44:10Z")
> [@Suburban\_Plankton](#): > > To get back to (or at least in the vicinity of) the OP’s topic…have they actually started using that building for anything more than a platform to launch fireworks off of? OK, apparently they’ve got a restaurant and a hotel, but is anybody actually patronizing them? The tower’s [own website](http://www.burjkhalifa.ae/) is oddly quiet about that. The link at the top to Homes & Offices doesn’t list much at all.