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Posted: 12:00 a.m. Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2012

Pie in the sky: Delray dining at 180 feet in the air

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Dinner in the Sky is an international event coming this weekend to Palm Beach County, where diners are served their meal at a table craned to 180 feet in the air.
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Dinner in the Sky is an international event coming this weekend to Palm Beach County, where diners are served their meal at a table craned to 180 feet in the air.

By Carlos Frias

Palm Beach Post Staff Writer

Five hundred dollars a plate in Delray Beach will get you a great meal and a heck of a view of the ocean—from 18 stories above the ground.

Reserved for a particular kind of adventurous eater, Dinner in the Sky is an international event coming this weekend to Palm Beach County, where diners are served their meal at a table craned to 180 feet in the air. The event has been in more than 40 countries and on Saturday, 88 diners will have the chance to experience it first-hand, dangling over the great lawn in Old School Square. For Delray Beach residents only, a seat can be had for a reduced rate of $350 a person.

“It’s really an over-the-top experience,” said Scott Kennedy, owner of the new sushi restaurant Candyfish, which will handle two of the four dinner services that night. “It’s wild. It’s impressive. It’s a very unique experience.”

Diners are strapped into roller coaster-style harnesses around a square table. In a cutout in the middle, three chefs serve the meal to 22 diners at a time, while tethered to the apparatus, which is held aloft by a 120-ton crane. And just like a roller coaster, there are height restrictions: You must be this tall—4-foot-11—and weight less than 225 pounds to ride.

Cafe Luna Rosa will host the 5:30 p.m. and 7 p.m. seatings while Candyfish will serve the 8:30 p.m. and 10 p.m. meals. The meal includes a swag bag and parties before and after the event.

The Delray Beach Marketing Cooperative, a partnership between the chamber of commerce and the city, has been working to bring the Belgian company’s event to Delray Beach for more than three years, and even the chefs are excited about the opportunity to cook in the sky.

“The staff was literally lining up. They all wanted this opportunity,” Kennedy said. “There’s a reason why. It’s an unbelievable experience.”

Tickets can be purchased by calling 561-279-1380, extension 17. More information can be found at www.delraybeachdinnerinthesky.com.

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