A chance to dine up in the clouds? There was no way I would miss making a reservation at a restaurant that promised that! Come join me as we visit Skylon Tower in Niagara Falls, Canada.
Any time we are visiting a new area, I always make a list of “things to do, places to visit, food to eat,” and I compile this list by doing two things:
1. Googling the “top ten things to do in xyz,” and changing the google search to cover food and things to eat that the area is known for.
2. Ask locals! They are your best resource, particularly for food suggestions, and have led us to some of our favorite stops when we travel, and when asking locals, I ask where THEY GO, not where they send the hordes of tourists.
These two exercises never fail to leave me with a pretty good list of things to do, and we, of course, leave a little wiggle room to go where the wind takes us as well. I don’t want to be so regimented with an itinerary that we forget to have fun too!
And so, I, of course, did the above when we visited Niagara Falls in Canada for Spring Break last year, and through my searches, I discovered the Skylon Tower.
Billed as a revolving dining room in the sky, how could you not immediately put it on your list??
A fine dining experience, reservations are strongly suggested. The restaurant seats just under 300 guests for their dinner service, and 165 for their buffet (check their site for details because the buffet is not every day). Luckily when we were there during Spring Break, it’s not really a busy season for them, so we had no problems getting the reservation we wanted for our large group.
To be honest, what they were serving for dinner didn’t really matter, because you know I was just there for the view! Despite it being rainy and quite foggy when we were there, it did nothing to dampen the experience.
The outer rim of the tower, where the dining guests sit is a little over 13 feet wide, and that’s the part that rotates. So, when you enter the restaurant, the hostess stand, bar area, and kitchen don’t rotate (that’s the center core of the restaurant), and then you step onto the dining track that rotates. It rotates so slowly that unless you’re paying attention to the changing view, you might not even notice, but it completes one full rotation every hour.
The Falls from 775 feet in the air!
It was seriously so cool.
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