Why the door never closes
London, United Kingdom — All-day dining on the fortieth floor.
The door is open twenty-four hours a day, which the official site calls an around-the-clock experience. Hot food keeps its own clock, split into breakfast, lunch and dinner, and late night, and the menu changes as the hours pass.
Along the windows the booths curve, each one wrapping a stone-topped round table with two places already laid. Tables stand well apart, the wooden floor runs to the foot of the glass, and the ceiling above is a run of panels overlapping into a shallow rise and fall.
The height needs no explaining. Sit down and the city spreads across the lower half of the window, the sky takes the upper half, and the timber frames dividing the glass are the only thing in between.
