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Suspend Your Dinner Guests 150 Feet in the Air
So you've been invited to dinner, and when you get there, you're led to a dining table elegantly set for 22. The host asks you to step into your seat and begins strapping you in like a race car driver. You look around and realize that this dining table with a beautiful clear canopy over it has wires attached to it that's attached to a giant crane parked nearby. Your heart races and you wonder what the heck is going on?!!
It's Dinner in the Sky! A new concept in Belgium started as an unique (and hairraising) dining event for those event planners who want their guests to have a truly memorable experience.
Belgian Dinner in the Sky offers event organizers a new way to make their event highly memorable: a table, with 22 seated guests, is suspended from a crane. The specially built table is surrounded by chairs of the type usually found on roller coasters, with four-point seat belts. Hoisted 50 meters (164 feet) above ground, safety is a reasonable concern.
Safely buckled up and floating mid-air, guests can enjoy a meal or meeting, with three chefs, waiters, presenters and/or entertainers standing in an open area in the centre of the table. One of the company's first events (pictured above) was a dinner for 22 chefs, hosted by San Pellegrino.
Table, crane, logistic and security staff are available for EUR 7900 for an eight hour session, which can be organized anywhere a large crane can be placed.
Could be that a sidewalk cafe is just enough open air for you? At least the bathroom is closer.
via [Springwise]
By Robert | July 14, 2006 in Parties & Entertaining | Permalink
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I had written a post on Dinner in the Sky a couple of days back. I find roof-top dining to be more flexible than dining in the sky.
However, the romance and adventure of eating in the air is something else.
Posted by: Esther | July 14, 2006 7:22 AM
Honestly, I don't know what to think about it. It doesn't seem very safe, and honestly, on a very windy day, I don't see the ambiance being worth that price, regardless of the food being served.
Posted by: Christina | August 8, 2006 7:46 AM
