Well, if they suspended it over something more interesting than a random residential neighborhood, I might be interested. But the view seems a bit unspectacular.
As for the height – doesn’t seem that different in degree from being on a ski lift.
Wind would be an issue. Any sort of breeze and you’d be losing entrees off the table.
I think it would be pretty cool, but my wife would be terrified, so I’d have to find a more fearless date…
If your kids are unruly, it’s not like you can walk over to them and give them a talking-to.
Sure. But it was your idea so you’re picking up the tab, right?
You just tell them that they are excused from the table.
Like a pool of sharks with freakin’ laser beams attached to their heads? I’d do it for the view.
This strikes me as the kind of thing where, were anything untoward to happen, you’d get a lot of “what the hell did you expect?!” responses.
I wouldn’t. It’s too lame. suspend the table from the bottom of a big blimp and take it somewhere interesting (you could even alter the menu to match the scenery way below), or keep it aloft with VTOL jets or something, but a big ass crane? Meh.
A BLIMP?!?!?!
“Scylla, party of 2 your table is ready.”
It’s been over ten years since I’ve had even a slight buzz.
If I were at that table, I’d be drinking the bubbly like there were no tomorrow.
:eek:
I agree. I’m thinking some kind of slow moving motor, moving between twin towers. Picture a couple of modern towers on opposite sides of a big open plaza, with a big arch rail between them (like roller coaster tracks).
The kitchen is in the first tower. You reach the restaurant & order, and have drinks. When the food is ready, you sit in the open-air dining car, and the car slowly moves out the side of the building, and reaches the opposite tower an hour later. You can leave there, or you can order dessert, take a ten minute bathroom break, and make the return trip while having dessert & coffee.
Moving between the two points can keep the view dynamic, especially if you make the return trip, during which the sun would be setting. Leave the first tower in the sunlight & return looking over the city lights surrounding you.
Oh, and the bar makes the trip across the plaza with the dining car, of course.
In the interests of full disclosure, Ivygirl is insisting that I tell everybody that she is the one who sent me the link, and I unashamedly stole her question (which was a very good one) for the OP.
Sorry, TWDuke, I seem to be fresh out of Euros. Shall we go Dutch?
That’s not going to help, the Dutch use the Euro as well. I suggest going British. 
Why don’t you go Nigerian and find someone else to pay for both of you?
What if you had to pee? 150 feet up? There’d be no “if”.
A gentlemen’s (and ladies) agreement to pretend to ignore the odd facial expressions.
Just don’t forget to lean over and yell “look out below!”
“Don’t make me set this thing down! Sidney, quit throwing pickles at the sunbathers. Martha, stop squirming, you’re going to…oh, dear.” :eek: