Skyfeast at Sydney Tower

 Wednesday October 19th

Today is the Sydney tower.  It reminds me of the Space Needle in Seattle.  We have a reservation for a window table and based on what I've heard, I'm guessing it is like eating at the top of the Freedom Tower in New York or the view from the Rock in New York.

As usual, we were early, we intended to catch the 10:22 train but caught the 10:06 train.  We got off at St James and walked through the tunnel to the edge of the park.  We found a nice coffee shop about a block from the tower and enjoyed the first day of real sun.  Where we are has not had any flooding like what they are having in the south near Melbourne, but it has been cool and cloudy almost the entire time I have been here, so the sun felt good.  We had coffee to kill some time, then headed over.

The first store you see when you enter the tower is Prada, which sets the tone for the rest of the stores.  All very high end, all very beautiful.  We took the escalator up to the 4th floor (ground level was considered the 3rd floor) to the elevator to the tower and where we checked in.  First place I've been to here where we had to walk through metal detectors and have our purses searched.  The elevator was an express and took us up 79 floors - enough that our ears popped.

The view was spectacular, you could see all around the city.  The dining area was a round and was moving.  It made one complete rotation in an hour.  Our seating was for 1 1/2 hours. The buffet was broken up into stations and lined the inner circle of the dining room.  There two cold stations with salads and fresh oysters, boiled prawns and two types of crab.  The hot bar, which was in the center had curries, some asian style dishes, carved roast beef, carved ham, roasted pork belly and a variety of roasted vegetables.  I didn't make it to the desserts, I had a latte with Baileys instead for dessert, although my dinner mates enjoyed a variety of pastries from the dessert bar.

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