shee shee

351m high... 360 revolving restaurant...

Ok, so I am not the one to eat in the most expensive restaurants in town, that is the job of my French friend... In fact I think small holes of restaurants serve better food, at least in my experience most of the time...

But as we climbed CN tower the boys asked the ticket counter woman if we might be able to have dinner at the restaurant... they were told 'no'... I said 'oh well let's just go upto the restaurant and ask - maybe there are cancellations' and there we marched in, in our shorts, in our flip flops, totally in with the hippy tourist look... the maître d' took a long and painful look at us, conferred with some others and said 'ok... let me explain to you how this works... each one of you *has* to order at least one main dish' - yeah of course it didn't look from the way we were dressed, that we might not order just one main dish and share it four ways (in fact I really am not sure we wouldn't have done this if we weren't given all that prep talk)!!!! So we all individually spent quite a bit... twice or more of our per-diem, still we were not buying even the medium expensive dishes... But it was worth every bit of it... the restaurant was revolving... whoa!!!!! I was not aware of this going in... As we were waiting to be seated, I said 'look it is revolving...' and we were all soo sooo happy... :)

My French friend who wasn't there as he was out with his girlfriend celebrating his birthday, was not happy the next day we went here without him... We didn't do it on purpose, we just stumbled upon this... But in retrospect, I am glad he wasn't there... if he was we would have spent twice as much for some fancy wine, that tasted all the same to us... and some aperitif, and some cognac to finish off...

I love North America... if you can pay for it, you can enjoy it... you don't have to dress to kill... you might be given a long painful look, but you will get the green light at the end...