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Eating dinner while flying (in the open air!)

There are some strange places you can have dinner, but this one takes the cake: you sit down to dinner while your table is picked up and carried over a city by a crane. You and up to 21 other people enjoy bird’s eye views of a Belgian or Netherlandish city. Heck, this makes dining at the top of a skyscraper look like nothing.

At the official website there is a picture section, where you can get a closer look at how this actually works. As you can fairly easily tell, the photo above is a Photoshop job—no one would dare stand up like those two guys are doing during something like this. However, the seats can rotate outward up to 90º in each direction.

The photos on the site show that each person is strapped in with a four-point belt restraint that comes over both shoulders. The seats really are out in the open air, so you’d better make sure you’re comfortable with your seat beforehand, cause you ain’t gonna change in midair!

I also notice that the participants are wearing headphones in some but not all of the pictures. It appears this is so that you can hear your host clearly as he tells you what you can and can’t do while filling your belly at 150 feet.

The going rate for one of these dinners? 7,900 €, or about $11,000—which is actually a lot less than I would have thought! Other things, like customization of the seats and table can add quite a bit onto that, though.

Let me guess…you want to see the official site, right? Go to it!

July 24th, 2007 Posted by Michaell at 05:42am | Food, Zany/Offbeat | 2 comments

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