Mmmm!
What a heady James Bond feeling this is! Come with me and glide in a revolving
restaurant on a Swiss mountain peak and get higher on a champagne breakfast!
We are in the 360 degree panorama revolving restaurant,
especially built for the James Bond film ‘On Her Majesty’s Secret
Service’. It was here that the suave hunk dallied with long legged, half-dressed
beauties, (including our very own Zahira) as the very same restaurant revolved
slowly amid the snow-clad mountains. The history of the restaurant is equally
dramatic. No
money changed hands, when the British film company built the revolving restaurant
for its film’s exclusive shooting use. It was a fair exchange and no one
involved ever regretted it. That was over 30 years ago. Today, fortunately,
I don’t have to take the perilous James Bond route up the 3000 metre high
Mt Schilthorn. I scale the peaks in four aerial cableways and the thrilling
trip takes only 32 minutes. Now that I’m here, I take a deep breath of
the bracing mountain air and the grandeur of over 200 mountain peaks all around
me. It is Switzerland at her seductive best as the majesty of the world famous
Eiger, Monc and Jungfrau loom around me. Beaded bubbles of champagne wink at
the rim of my glass as the restaurant smoothly turns around powered by solar
energy. Outside, the large viewing terrace is chilly with mounds of snow, but
inside the champagne and eggs breakfast warms me. And here’s Switzerland
at her most surprising too... this James Bond mountain restaurant’s menu
offers Madras lentils, Jaipur vegetables, pickles, papad and basmati rice. The
menu may not be the greatest, it may be too limited and there are far too many
tourists piling in and out of cable cars, but boy! Is the feeling pure James
Bond?
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Mmmm!
What a heady James Bond feeling this is! Come with me and glide in a revolving
restaurant on a Swiss mountain peak and get higher on a champagne breakfast!
No
money changed hands, when the British film company built the revolving restaurant
for its film’s exclusive shooting use. It was a fair exchange and no one
involved ever regretted it. That was over 30 years ago. Today, fortunately,
I don’t have to take the perilous James Bond route up the 3000 metre high
Mt Schilthorn. I scale the peaks in four aerial cableways and the thrilling
trip takes only 32 minutes. Now that I’m here, I take a deep breath of
the bracing mountain air and the grandeur of over 200 mountain peaks all around
me. It is Switzerland at her seductive best as the majesty of the world famous
Eiger, Monc and Jungfrau loom around me. Beaded bubbles of champagne wink at
the rim of my glass as the restaurant smoothly turns around powered by solar
energy. Outside, the large viewing terrace is chilly with mounds of snow, but
inside the champagne and eggs breakfast warms me. And here’s Switzerland
at her most surprising too... this James Bond mountain restaurant’s menu
offers Madras lentils, Jaipur vegetables, pickles, papad and basmati rice. The
menu may not be the greatest, it may be too limited and there are far too many
tourists piling in and out of cable cars, but boy! Is the feeling pure James
Bond? 
