The Restaurant at the End of the Universe.

[peter]

I recently visited Istanbul and while there ate a meal in a restaurant that was situated actually inside the 1500 yo roman cisterns that supplied the Byzantine city's water. The meal was tolerable but the venue.....! Like eating a meal in an underground vaulted gothic cathedral.

Similarly, a meal I ate in the Jules Verne restaurant on the second floor of Paris's Eiful Tower had that WOW factor by virtue of it's venue - all victorian elegance surrounded by glass and girders with the city stretched out before you.

Now what I'm after guys are other examples that have this same thing. I'm not just after good restaurants, or restaurants in good places that are enclosed in a way that the venue is not visible - the venue itself has to be the star, like hanging over the grand canyon in a glass box style of thing (didn't I hear that has now been done by some native american entrepeneurs). Any ideas guys. I would like if possible to compile a list of the top 10 such eateries in the world - and then visit a few of them

[stonemaybe]

Club Feszek in Budapest. I just can't forget the place (not that I want to). In the bottom picture (both are random google image search pics, can't find the ones i took ), one of the arches in the background leads to a type of temple/room with a fullsize statue of a centaur holding up a child. I don't know why I loved the place so much, it just struck a chord with me. It had a wonderful sort of decayed splendour to it.

[Holsety]

I don't know the name, but there's a restaurant in Tiberius, Israel that's built out over the waterfront like a balcony (not actually an uncommon design for restaurants) and I ate some really good lamb chops there.

My mom says she has a journal, I'll post up pictures if I can find the place online, later.

[Savor Dam]

Gotta plug the revolving restaurant at the rim of the Space Needle in Seattle. It is all about the venue; don't go for the food. Fine dining, yes. Spendy, definitely. Not inspiring eats...but the view of Seattle, Mt. Rainier, the Cascades, sunset over the Olympics, ferries on Puget Sound...

Not the view from the Needle, but a view toward the Needle at night from where my new employment is:

[peter]

Thanks guys. I think I have come across Savor Dam's Seattle one before (and it sounds a must to me) - the others are new to me and as both Isreal and Hungary are on my to do lists could well fit in with future plans.