Does anyone know of a restaurant in london with an amazing view?

Question

I'm looking for a restaurant for tomorrow night (Wed 20th Sept) with an amazing view at night, preferably in central london, although not necessarily. (Also, if this sparks any other ideas for great dates, they would be more than welcome.) Thanks.

Answer 1

The restaurant on the top floor of the National Portrait Gallery (just off Trafalgar Square) has a fantastic view - of Nelson's bum, then up Whitehall to Parliament.  http://www.npg.org.uk/live/portrest.asp

(Don't get it confused with the National Gallery around the corner, whose restaurant is fine, but doesn't have those views.)

There's also a lovely bar/restaurant on the top floor of Waterstone's Bookshop in Piccadilly - very hip.  http://www.5thview.co.uk/

Babylon (on the roof of what was once Derry & Toms, High St Ken), is very well known, but I've never been there: http://www.toptable.co.uk/details.cfm?ri...

Otherwise, yes, the Tate Modern has a fab view, if you can get a table.

Answer 2

Buy a Boots tuna salad sandwich & a can of Tizer & go on the Eye.

Answer 3

rooftops in kensington is supposed to be OK

Answer 4

The OXO Tower

I'll warn you now - it's not cheap, but the foods good and the service fantastic; but you pay for it.

It's got fantastic views up and down the Thames.

Enjoy

Answer 5

1. The one at the top of the Oxo Tower.

2. The one at the top of Tate Modern

Answer 6

Oxo towers, but it's already been suggested, sorry!!

If you're ever in Auckland either of the restaurants at the top of the Sky Tower are fab!!

Answer 7

Try Windows Bar on the 28th Floor of the Hilton.

Overlooks Hyde Park

Great views but a little pricey and exclusive.

Answer 8

Tate Modern restaurant has excellent food and wonderful views - get the river side, although the views over south London are striking too.

Answer 9

tate modern restaurant

Answer 10

Seven

If you are going to be in Leicester Square or if you are going to the theater in the West End, a good place to be is several stories above the square teeming with tourists and performance artists. Seven is set atop a most unlikely looking building with an equally unlikely set of stairs leading to it, but you will be rewarded with what only the birds see when they look down on the square -- leafy green trees and an expanse of green lawn often covered with people hanging out.

The more distant views offer some of London's best-known landmarks from a different perspective: the brand-new London Eye, the giant Ferris wheel that is the hottest attraction in the city, next to Westminster Bridge; the Houses of Parliament; Westminster Abbey; St. Martin's in the Field and St. Paul's.

The food is straightforward with many touches of old England. Seven is an oasis for lunch or dinner, before or after the theater. And it is right on the edge of Regent Street shopping.

Enjoy your dinner!

Answer 11

Try the BT Tower, or the oxo building.

Answer 12

Top of the TATE MODERN

Answer 13

London Eye

Answer 14

What about the London Metropole on the Edgware Road.  Restaurant is on the top floor (24 floors I think).  Alternatively, you could go to The Dickens Inn at St Katherine's Dock - not a high up view, but a lovely view none the less.

Answer 15

The post office tower had that distiction but thy are a smidgen late.

Answer 16

post office tower.

Answer 17

The OXO!!!!!!!!

Answer 18

The OXO Tower. Although I don't know if you'd get a reservation at this late stage.

Also it is possible to book capsules in the London Eye on some occasions. However, this is extremely expensive. Check the BA London Eye website for details.