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Post by Deleted on Jul 24, 2009 17:43:46 GMT
Where have you eaten where the view was absolutely breathtaking (even if the food was bad)? I don't necessarily agree with these suggestions, but they should give us some ideas on the subject. |
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Post by traveler63 on Jul 25, 2009 0:08:14 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2009 4:37:42 GMT
I've eaten at the rooftop restaurant of the Institut du Monde Arabe, which has the same view as the Tour d'Argent.
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Post by lagatta on Jul 27, 2009 12:09:51 GMT
I've only had tea there, but it is a wonderful view. Is the food good?
I remember a café/bar/restaurant in Perugia at the edge of a cliff looking down and far off in Umbria, onto a romantic cypress-covered cemetery and far off in the distance - Assisi and Monte Subasio. Spectacular. This café was run by an association - it was a rough and ready studentish place, but has been tarted up a bit since. Don't remember the name, we never called it by any name other than the café.
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Post by imec on Jul 27, 2009 12:46:13 GMT
Two which immediately spring to mind are: 1. The little dining room of the wonderful Alpina hotel in Murren, Switzerland (in the Bernese Oberland). The hotel is literally perched on the edge of mountain offering an amzing view of the Jungrau, Eiger and Munsch across the valley - you feel like you can reach over an touch them.  2. The rooftop terrace of La Pergola, Rome's only Michelin 3 star restaurant atop the Cavalieri hotel on Monte Mario. It was a 25th anniversary splurge. I booked about 2 months ahead and settled for a thursday night instead of the Friday or Saturday so I could have the best table in the house. Something's gone awry and I can't find the right picture - this one, taken from the executive lounge, one floor below is a vague approximation of the view. Almost all of the major sights were visible - St. Peters (seemingly within reaching distance), the Colosseum, the Pantheon, the "typewriter" - it was stunning. We saw 3 or 4 fireworks displays during the 4 hours we spent on our 9 course meal. Once in a lifetime (on my budget) magic.  |
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Post by bjd on Jul 27, 2009 13:33:15 GMT
I had a glass of Perrier at the café on the roof on Institut du Monde Arabe. And some tea on the roof of the Samaritaine department store in central Paris before it was closed. scroll down the page: [img src="http://www.cestpascher.com/toits.html[/url]" |
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Post by tillystar on Jul 27, 2009 14:31:19 GMT
One place that immediately springs to mind is the restaurant of the hotel we stayed at in Rome which had a spectacular view of St Peters, far nicer than the pictures suggest. www.atlantehotels.com/English/Etoiles/home_Eng.htmIt was lovely having breakfast there too. Also the Oxo tower has great views over the Thames. It seems very fashionable in London to say the food is crap but the views are stunning but actually I thought the food was amazing and the views were pretty good. karen.deadsquid.com/gallery2/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=2294&g2_serialNumber=2Bar Vertigo 42 in London has some pretty good views at night (if its light you just see a sea of grey!) But the view that took my breath away was from the Laban Rata Resthouse canteen on Mount Kinabalu (the food was just plates of noodles but God it was the best food I had ever tasted at the time)  Most of the places I can think of the best views are small places by the sea or in mountains that I don’t even remember the name of! |
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Post by Jazz on Aug 2, 2009 14:52:59 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Aug 2, 2009 15:08:36 GMT
The view on that top picture is amazing, Jazz.
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Post by Jazz on Aug 2, 2009 15:26:03 GMT
Deyana, I haven't yet found a photo that truly reflects the beauty of that night, the colours were exquisite and it looked like a Renaissance painting. The Turquoise Coast of Turkey is perfectly named. I had a delicious catch-of-the day in some cafe and looked at this view. The water is truly this colour.  My mother and I went to the top of Mount Pilatus in Lucerne for lunch. Beautiful. We took the cablecar down, oh my god!  |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 2, 2009 15:33:31 GMT
Wow, those are truly fantastic views. In the bottom picture, I wonder how on earth they managed to build that structure so high up and at the tip of the mountain? Amazing.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 2, 2009 15:56:23 GMT
There is a cable car that takes you from the city up the mountain above Como. This is the view we had as night fell over the city.  There were a number of restaurants and bars up there, but it was the appropriate time of the evening to have Martini Rosso and olives. Once night had fallen completely, we had a fantastic dinner on a large piazza down by the lake. It think it is the greenish lit area in the photo. The restaurants had divided the space with little boxed shrubs. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 2, 2009 15:58:38 GMT
Just beautiful. The whole area must really sparkle at night time.
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Post by Jazz on Aug 2, 2009 16:31:48 GMT
That is a beautiful view of Como, Kerouac. Once, I stopped for a modest lunch at the Residence Stella Alpina Hotel, one kilometre from il sanctuario della madonna della corona, Monte Baldo, built into the mountain,  To fully appreciate this... |
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Post by cigalechanta on Aug 2, 2009 17:44:56 GMT
The Auberge de Eridan on Lac annecy
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Post by auntieannie on Aug 4, 2009 18:59:43 GMT
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