LONDON EYE BECOMES EATERY FOR LONDON RESTAURANT FESTIVAL
As part of the festival, which runs from 8th – 13th October, one pod of The London Eye will be transformed into a dining room, and chefs will take turns at serving their diners in the sky.
The chefs are Gordon Ramsay, Vineet Bhatia, Endo San, Richard Corrigan, Francesco Mazei, and a chef from Zuma.
The timing has got to be impeccable because the pod will take exactly 30 minutes to cycle, and if the moment is missed, the diners will have to wait another 30 minutes for their next course.
This won’t be too popular as the diners will probably pay a fortune for their tickets. They are to be auctioned for charity.
David Sharpe, managing director of the London Eye said: “We are delighted to be supporting the London Restaurant Festival and hosting some of the world’s greatest chefs at the London Eye. London’s reputation as a gastronomic destination has grown hugely in recent years and is now recognised as one of the culinary capitals of the world. There can be no better way to celebrate the diversity of London’s cuisine than by seeing the capital spread out 135 metres below you as you dine.”
Simon Davis, co-founder of the London Restaurant Festival, added: “Many things are called ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ experiences but few genuinely are. We believe that by turning London’s most popular attraction into a ‘pop-up’ restaurant, with dinner prepared by some of the capital’s top chefs, we have an event that justifies that tag.
“In fact we think that people who experience any of the London Restaurant Festival’s one-off events will rightly feel they have done something that comes round just once in a lifetime.”
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