And in case you're wondering, the water is $5.44 with tax. So you don't realize out how much you'll spend on water until you arrive at the cashier, whose touchscreen asks if you'd like to add 20 percent gratuity to your H2O. And in the One Cafe food court, few items carry printed prices (there are menus floating around good luck finding them). His last statement is particularly resonant because One World Trade doesn't publish its menus online. Third, don't patronize street vendors without printed prices, he argues, because otherwise you might get ripped off. Second, don't eat "dirty water" hot dogs, only the grilled ones (this guy is good). First, go to Di Fara for pizza, he says, which is possibly the smartest thing a tour guide has ever said in the history of the universe.
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Now let me explain why you probably shouldn't eat at any of them.Ī table at One Dine Even The WTC's Tour Guide Didn't Actively Recommend The Concessionsĭuring a slick multimedia presentation on the 100th floor, one of the WTC's tour guides gives the spectators a few clever bits of advice.
ONE WORLD OBSERVATORY RESTAURANT WINDOWS
Like Windows on the World, the chief merits of the One venues are the views they afford. No matter on the 101st floor is a trio of culinary establishments dubbed One Cafe, One Mix, and One Dine, all run by Legends, the folks behind the concessions at Yankee Stadium, the Rose Bowl, and elsewhere.
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Of course, the record only holds true if you count the spire that stands on top, which is akin to saying that Aunt Ellie is the tallest member of your family because she wears a single Manolo Blahnik on her head like an avant-garde derby hat. Signs on the inside and outside boast that it's the highest building in the Western Hemisphere, at 1,776 feet. Even if you didn't know much about fine dining, you knew such a dream-like place existed, and you knew that it came tumbling down on September 11, 2001.įourteen years later, One World Trade has risen near the footprints of the felled Twin Towers. Windows was a shining ambassador for New York, an escape from a city that was, in decades past, drug addled, dirty, and crime-ridden below.
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If anything, Windows helped usher in a new era of captive audience dining in that the restaurant was a destination in itself, rather than a lazy byproduct of the vital institution it resided in. Windows boasted one of the city's finest wine lists, and its sister spot, Cellar in the Sky, was a forerunner in espousing that wallet drainer known as the wine pairing. Or as the food critic Ruth Reichl once noted, the vista was effectively a "magic carpet of lights at your feet." Joe Baum's sky palace, of course, had its non-visual merits too. At Windows, with its panoramic views of the city, "New York was the main course," William Grimes wrote in Appetite City. Sure, you were there to eat, but you were mostly there to watch, to be in awe. To say that an evening at Windows on the World, located on the 107th floor of the World Trade Center's North Tower, was just about the food, would be like saying a Mets game was just about the hot dogs.