Highest restaurant has US $0.28.5 billion view with caviar

At.mosphere restaurant on the 122nd floor of Burj Khalifa, Dubai's final extravagance before the financial crisis, offers a vista of the boom years.

 

Bar captain Solomon from Kenya places a bottle of champagne at At.mosphere, the world's highest restaurant in the Burj Khalifa in Dubai.

Floor-to-ceiling windows look out over the sail-shaped Burj al-Arab hotel, Sol Kerzner's
US $0.28.5 billion Atlantis resort jutting out from the tip of the manmade Palm Jumeirah island, and beyond that, a huddle of towers near Dubai Marina.



At.mosphere is the world's highest restaurant. Guests may choose between a formal grill for lunch or dinner and a casual lounge with purple and gray velvet sofas for tea and cocktails. The 200 dirham (US $15.12) minimum charge is half the price of a ticket for the outdoor observation area on the 124th floor, and it only applies to men. Women can spend what they like.
Visitors are directed to a separate entrance on the ground floor of the tower and taken up some escalators to a high-speed elevator. There's only one button to press, 123, and then it takes off, flying passengers half a kilometre upwards at an ear-popping 10 meters a second. ''The elevators don't get smaller, even though the tower gets thinner as you get higher.''
The restaurant is one floor below and is reached via a spiral staircase against a wall of windows. At.mosphere is split into two semi-circles, with an 80-seater restaurant in one half and a lounge that can seat 135 people in the other. Tea is served in the lounge, where guests are scattered among the window tables - two British men sipping champagne, three Farsi-speaking women chatting away - while the sofas in the interior are empty, presumably until the bar opens at 6pm.
At.mosphere's washrooms overlook the US $5.55 billion Downtown Dubai. The area is home to the world's biggest mall and a 275-metre-long dancing fountain that is 25 percent larger than that of the Bellagio in Las Vegas.
We return to our table and order more tea with which to enjoy the variety of miniature cakes and sweets with a sorbet. Our two hours of eating, drinking and relaxing 442 metres above ground level now over, we head back to the elevator.

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