The rooftop6 min read
What makes a rooftop restaurant worth the lift ride
Any building with a flat top can put chairs on it and call itself a rooftop restaurant. The ones people return to have solved a much less glamorous list of problems.
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Things worth knowing before you book a terrace, plan a party or press order — written from the top floor above MG Road, with the numbers left in.
Any building with a flat top can put chairs on it and call itself a rooftop restaurant. The ones people return to have solved a much less glamorous list of problems.
Somebody in every group ends up organising it. This is the order to do it in, the numbers you will be asked for, and the three decisions that actually change how the night goes.
An anniversary dinner is not a hard booking to make. It is an easy one to make badly. The difference is almost always the time you chose and whether you told anybody what the evening was.
The commission is not a secret and it is not free. Here is where it actually goes, and what the same food costs when nobody is taking a cut of it.
Booking a rooftop for a birthday is mostly one question asked six ways: will the evening still work if something goes wrong? Here is the checklist we would use, and how our own roof answers it.
Order from the same kitchen we have been writing about, or take a table on the terrace. Booking is free to cancel up to two hours before, and there is no booking fee either way.
Planning something? See what we do for celebrations, or read the current offers.