[O-Town Hockey]

I thought I should start a thread about something that every big Canadian city seems to have. Many were built in the 70's and 80's and they may not look pretty, but they sure have some nice views of the city. So what's the revolving restaurant (or rooftop restaurant if you don't have one) in your city? Post some pictures of their brutalist (at least our podium is) glory and possibly a look at the view.

Here in Ottawa it is the Merlot Grill (http://www.merlotottawa.com/en/) on the 29th floor of the Marriott Hotel (http://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/yowmc-ottawa-marriott-hotel/) at the corner of Kent and Sparks.

http://www.ottawakiosk.com/merlot_logo.gif http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c9/Ottawa_Marriot_2.JPG/200px-Ottawa_Marriot_2.JPG http://www.accessnets.org/2007/images/yowmc_phototour18.jpg http://www.accessnets.org/2007/images/yowmc_phototour01.jpg

[Rico Rommheim]

you know, I don't think we have one!

[mersar]

Calgary's (at the top of the Calgary Tower of course) is currently undergoing renovations, and will be reopening in July as 'Sky 360'. The one thing that I hope they change is the policy on getting into it, the previous restaurant still required you to pay 50% of the tower admission to get up to the restaurant.

[O-Town Hockey]

you know, I don't think we have one!

I think you're in Montreal, and if so, you guys have a revolving restaurant in the Delta Hotel called La Tour de Ville that fits my description of these Canada landmarks perfectly.

https://www.needtoescape.com/images/PropertyImages/Canada/14363_0.jpg https://secure.cacee.com/en/images/Delta.jpg

[Rico Rommheim]

I think you're in Montreal, and if so, you guys have a revolving restaurant in the Delta Hotel called La Tour de Ville that fits my description of these Canada landmarks perfectly.

https://www.needtoescape.com/images/PropertyImages/Canada/14363_0.jpg https://secure.cacee.com/en/images/Delta.jpg

well I'll be. Been here for 21 years and I never knew this. Thanks!

[Kevin_foster]

Edmonton's is quite nice.. La Ronde in Chateau Lacombe

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/153/401365489_23fd4b1fa2.jpg?v=0

Credit: here (http://farm1.static.flickr.com/153/401365489_23fd4b1fa2.jpg?v=0)

http://www.chateaulacombe.com/images/panos/larondepano.jpg
Credt: here (http://www.chateaulacombe.com/laronde.php)

Except I think every rotating restaurant has the same name :P

[Calgarian]

I never knew there were so many revolving restaurants in Canada. Do people know when they were built? basically, which was the first.

[SteelTown]

Looks like they were a big trend during the 80's for hotels.

[caltrane74]

Westin Harbour Castle

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/6/10543042_39214d09de_o.jpg

from www.flickr.com Jan1ce

[Evergrey]

"food tastes better when you're revolving"

Alberta

* La Ronde, at the top of the Crowne Plaza Chateau Lacombe, Edmonton, Alberta
* Panorama Dining Room, at the top of the Calgary Tower, Calgary, Alberta

British Columbia

* Cloud 9 restaurant at the Empire Landmark Hotel, Vancouver, British Columbia
* Top of Vancouver, Harbour Centre, Vancouver, British Columbia
* Vistas Revolving Restaurant & Bar, on top of Renaissance Vancouver Hotel Harbourside, Vancouver, British Columbia

Manitoba

* The Royal Crown Revolving Restaurant, Winnipeg, Manitoba

Ontario

* 360, CN Tower, Toronto, Ontario
* The Merlot, on top of the Ottawa Marriott, Ottawa, Ontario
* Skylon Tower, Niagara Falls, Ontario

Quebec

* L'Astral, on top of the Loews Hotel le Concorde Quebec City, Quebec
* Le Tour de Ville, on top of Delta Centre Hotel in Montreal, Quebec

[raggedy13]

* Cloud 9 restaurant at the Empire Landmark Hotel, Vancouver, British Columbia
* Top of Vancouver, Harbour Centre, Vancouver, British Columbia
* Vistas Revolving Restaurant & Bar, on top of Renaissance Vancouver Hotel Harbourside, Vancouver, British Columbia

And here they are as ordered above:

http://www.how2vacation.com/vacation-resort-hotel/6/105718r1.jpg

http://web.downtownvan.com/images/1/lookout_2.jpg

http://www.hotels.co.uk/13/hotels/1000000/20000/13400/13323/hcom_13323_37_b.jpg

[deasine]

Vancouver's Cloud Nine is just a ripoff... disgusting food, disgusting service, and to top it off: super expensive. Not worth it: even for the view imo.

[1ajs]

can see ours in this pano i did on a -40 day........
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/89/Winnipeg-Skyline-feb18-2008.jpg

portion of the veiw
http://img157.imageshack.us/img157/7205/panosg4.jpg

both images shot by me

[harls]

I was just up in Ottawa's at the end of May and took these:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3059/2548558275_03e1250265_b.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3022/2548556067_35c16c8a7e_b.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3256/2563845165_ba44b76d7b_b.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3114/2548554229_f60574428e_b.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2109/2528034819_bee370bd48_b.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2054/2528027913_a3ed9ac4ae_b.jpg

[MolsonExport]

There are none in London. Some revolting restaurants, but none revolving.

[WhipperSnapper]

Do they all still revolve? This one ...



http://farm1.static.flickr.com/6/10543042_39214d09de_o.jpg

... hasn't revolved in 8 years. We still have the CN Towers though

[Rico Rommheim]

There are none in London. Some revolting restaurants, but none revolving.

:haha:

[caltrane74]

Do they all still revolve? This one ...



http://farm1.static.flickr.com/6/10543042_39214d09de_o.jpg

... hasn't revolved in 8 years. We still have the CN Towers though

goodlookin', can you revolve on it?

[WhipperSnapper]

goodlookin', can you revolve on it?

Only if you can do the twist otherwise, from what the staff told me last year, the revolving mechanisms are completely trashed and have been for years.

[MolsonExport]

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1392/1269618569_76d5187ec0.jpg?v=0

revolving? or rotating? or revolting?

A tub of chicken, eitherway.

[harls]

^ is that chicken grease I see leaking out the bottom?

Maybe they use it for lubricating the tub-turning mechanism.

[francely57]

"food tastes better when you're revolving"

Alberta

* La Ronde, at the top of the Crowne Plaza Chateau Lacombe, Edmonton, Alberta
* Panorama Dining Room, at the top of the Calgary Tower, Calgary, Alberta

British Columbia

* Cloud 9 restaurant at the Empire Landmark Hotel, Vancouver, British Columbia
* Top of Vancouver, Harbour Centre, Vancouver, British Columbia
* Vistas Revolving Restaurant & Bar, on top of Renaissance Vancouver Hotel Harbourside, Vancouver, British Columbia

Manitoba

* The Royal Crown Revolving Restaurant, Winnipeg, Manitoba

Ontario

* 360, CN Tower, Toronto, Ontario
* The Merlot, on top of the Ottawa Marriott, Ottawa, Ontario
* Skylon Tower, Niagara Falls, Ontario

Quebec

* L'Astral, on top of the Loews Hotel le Concorde Quebec City, Quebec
* Le Tour de Ville, on top of Delta Centre Hotel in Montreal, Quebec

Of all these, I've only been to the Ottawa Marriott, a long time ago.



Here's Montreal's Delta Hotel, seen with the site of a potential Morgan Stanley / Rogers tower
May 12, 2008
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e24/francely57/UC/IMG_4301.jpg

[AndrewJ3D]

Toronto has(d) 4.

#1. 360 - CN Tower
#2. Toulà - The Westin Harbour Castle
#3. 89 Chestnut UofT res, formerly the Colony Hotel, revolving restaurant now closed I think
#4. Atlantis Nightclub, Ontario Place

[harls]

Does Niagara Falls have one?

[AndrewJ3D]

It has the Skylon Tower Restaurant, which would be the countries 3rd tallest I think.

[ToxiK]

I think you're in Montreal, and if so, you guys have a revolving restaurant in the Delta Hotel called La Tour de Ville that fits my description of these Canada landmarks perfectly.

https://www.needtoescape.com/images/PropertyImages/Canada/14363_0.jpg https://secure.cacee.com/en/images/Delta.jpg

I have eaten there 15 years ago. It was expensive, but nice!

[Rico Rommheim]

^but does it actually spin? I always knew it was a restaurant but it doesn't look like it turns to me. :shrug:

[O-Town Hockey]

^but does it actually spin? I always knew it was a restaurant but it doesn't look like it turns to me. :shrug:

The entire hotel spins on a turntable, you never noticed?

[MolsonExport]

^but does it actually spin? I always knew it was a restaurant but it doesn't look like it turns to me. :shrug:

It most certainly does (the outer circle, but not the windows). Ate there 3 years ago, and it was certainly rotating.

[IntotheWest]

It has the Skylon Tower Restaurant, which would be the countries 3rd tallest I think.

And the Konica Minolta Tower...don't know if it revolves though, but does have a restaurant. And I thought these two were about the same height??

[AndrewJ3D]

it doesn't revolve and it's much shorter.

[Kevin_foster]

I can make any restaurant rotate with enough liquor

[Greco Roman]

I've never been to any revolving restaurant, although they do intrigue me.

And although it's not a revolving restaurant, I'm still looking for an opportunity to go to Lethbridge's new water tower restaurant.

[Coldrsx]

great thread!

[gilpel]

Loews Le Concorde in Québec City...L'Astrale Restaurant

http://web.hospitalite.com/clients/citra/images/loewsnouveau.jpg

http://www.pentathlondesneiges.com/images/2008/LoewsSoirHiver.jpg

https://www.needtoescape.com/images/PropertyImages/Canada/14445_2.jpg

http://freelargephotos.com/001353_l.jpg

http://freelargephotos.com/001355_l.jpg

[Lenin]

Lethbridge, Alberta has a joint called Ric's Grill. Though the restaurant doesn't revolve per se, it is actually a pretty neat view with vistas of coulees (earthen hills surrounding river valleys prone to erosion; fairly unique to the area), the Rocky Mountains, and, of course, downtown (or lack thereof) Lethbridge. The restaurant is two levels, and the entire structure is around 15 stories high, I would guess. The interesting fact is that it was actually the city's old water tower. The two levels, dining and lounge, are actually located inside the rounded part that used to contain the water. Somehow they threw in an elevator shaft into the centre of what presumably used to be a spiral stairwell. I shall try to get a picture or two and post it on here.... It is, of course, due to it's location in Lethbridge/Southern Alberta, clad in huge billboards nowadays, including a couple massive Christian advertisements. Strange. Such an interesting (albeit a bit ugly) structure....

[IntotheWest]

I've never been to any revolving restaurant, although they do intrigue me.

And although it's not a revolving restaurant, I'm still looking for an opportunity to go to Lethbridge's new water tower restaurant.

I agree, that does sound interesting.

[vid]

No revolving restaurant, but we have pizza houses that sell pot.