Did you ever eat in Windows On The World?

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That's a rather personal question to ask, OP.

I loved their kamikaze shots.

Champagne cocktails with my mom.

I had Let’s Roll Cinnamon Rolls in the rubble.

OP, will the answers be data points entered in four different fields: appetizer, entree, dessert, drink?

Does your group use a cloud platform or just the basic Excel spreadsheet format with pivot tables?

I went there with my first boyfriend. I remember it, as I do him, fondly.

Only for drinks. And to take the Kevin Zraly Windows on the World wine course.

Of course.

Washed down with flying monkey cocktails.

What kind of crowd went here? Tourists or the business crowd?

A plane. To go.

Went a couple of times for brunch and it was buffet. The crowd seemed to be New Yorkers as well as some tourists. I also went for drinks and it was business and tourists. The elevator ride was scary in a good way; it was so rapid.

I ate there once in 2001. I remember having salmon as my main course and a pineapple cake for dessert. Service was excellent.

I remember an evening drinking kamikazees with a boyfriend and the breathtaking skyline view. It was so odd to look out those enormous windows and see helicopters in flight from above. Not clear on what we had for dinner all these years later, but I do recall the elevator ride took an astonishingly long time.

^ I should add that my visit there was circa spring 1983. ^

Once.

Had to tip the Maitre to move us to a Window on the World

You went there for the view not the food which was indifferent.

You went there for the view not the food which was indifferent.

Many times, for Sunday brunch and on Thursday nights, when they had salsa dancing.

I had the Airline Chicken. It was to die for.

PRESSED duck with a side of MASHED potatoes with CRUSHED garlic. And we got FALLING DOWN drunk.

Is R22 BILL TAYLOR?

"The crowd seemed to be New Yorkers as well as some tourists"

How do you tell the difference?

Tableside deboning of the Dover Sole, mimosas and the Banana Foster!

It was the '70s, so I don't really remember, but probably salmon. Oysters. Lobster. Also, lots of wine (not a frau...I had to write about it) and hors d'oeuvres.

Easter brunch. Was there with a group of friends and the sister of one of them. She asked if the muffins had real blueberries. When told that they were, she stated that she didn't like real blueberries, just the fake ones.

Yup I did.

My brother came to town with a high school friend who as an adult became a restauranteur. He could write off expensive dinners and wanted to eat at Windows On the World. I was a poverty-stricken student at the time, so my eyes bugged out at the prices on the menu, but I ordered something relatively inexpensive (like a $45 entree). There were 4 of us (this was about 1982). They ordered drinks and a bottle of wine. The service was very high-end - lots of busboys milling about keeping water glasses full, a sommellier, the main waiter. The bill was about $800 or so. Our friend would have tipped generously because he was in the business, but when he was going over the bill he noticed that the waiter had added on an additional $75 bottle of wine or two onto our tab. When he gestured to an underling to note the discrepancy, the head waiter never made another appearance at our table. The corrected check appeared....eventually. The generous tip was withheld, and a normal gratuity was left. I'm sure we were not the only diners there who were scammed on their tabs. I suspect it was a common practice - out-of-towners there to impress, not checking things too closely.

Imagine eating breakfast there that morning. I wonder if any of them got out before...?

Isn't this the joint that the chicks from IT'S A LIVING waitressed?

[quote]I went there with my first boyfriend. I remember it, as I do him, fondly.

Yes, the sky was so blue that day...

r31 No--that was at the top of the Bonaventure in LA.

How much did Microsoft pay for the naming rights?

I partook of their luncheon buffet.

I especially liked the beets.

I blew one of the waiter's in a utility closet one time. Good times.

I ate there several times in the late 1990s-early 2001 when my ex-partner worked in the wine department. He quit around 8 months before 9/11 and lost several of his former colleagues in the attack. Went to the WOtW 9/11 memorial service at St John the Divine, which was heartbreaking.

Chef Michael LoMonaco made very good American grill and seafood, though the place was never daring with its cuisine. It was more about the experience of being so high and the views if the weather was clear. The express elevators would make your ears pop going up. The windows were not wide though because of the repeating metal railing edifice. The wine list was probably better respected than the food menu. They had acquired some amazing bottles over the years under Kevin Zraly and Andrea Immer. I found the service too formal for the place. I think it and the World Trade Center as a whole have become more iconic because of 9/11 than they were in their heyday.

I ate there.

And then I died

I knew 3 who died there.

No, never ate at that upstart place. The Rainbow Room had much more interesting views.

R36 could you make a meal of it or was it just an amuse-bouche?

Same same, except for the views . The rainbow room owned windows.

[quote] Imagine eating breakfast there that morning. I wonder if any of them got out before...?

A college friend of mine (and Fire Island Pines regular) was actually having breakfast with a client there that morning. He didn’t even work there. Never made it out. Nobody did, after the first plane hit. They just waited for help that never arrived before the tower collapsed. He is one of eight from my college who lost their lives there that day.

I ate ass at the World Trade Center and Vista rest rooms.

Sorry to hear that R43. If I may ask what college?

Yes, a couple of times. It was a popular place for Wall St. lunch breakfast and lunch meetings. The food was unremarkable as I remember, but the views were fantastic, especially on sunny days. I'd pick a seat near a window and gaze dreamily out at the world instead of paying attention to my dull as dishwater business meeting. Some of the waiters were hot.

It should never have become a drive-thru restaurant.

I don’t eat airline food.

Brunch once, detestable food. Quite like that of the Space needle in Seattle.

Near the end the food was horribly overcooked, charred actually.