I went to the restaurant at the top of the Oxo Tower last night for the first time ever. And very nice it was too. Aside from getting hideously drunk and having to be poured into a taxi and flushed home, I noted a few things.
1) The Oxo Tower is not a tower. An eight storey building just isn’t a tower. My house is 4 storeys and you don’t hear me calling it the Dulwich High Rise.
2) I had it mixed up with the post office tower. Which is an actual tower and is also much larger. Most importantly it is round. Having spent the last 30 years thinking that this was the Oxo tower, you can excuse my other misconception, that the restaurant revolved. Which is just as well because revolving restaurants are in the same design group as guitar shaped beds. I can also imagine it is very difficult to find your table again when you come back from the bog unless the bogs also revolve. I can’t see this being the case because the only way that would work, what with the plumbing and all, is if there was only one bog, right in the middle of the restaurant. So you would essentially be sitting on spinning toilet, and the toilet is not a place where you want to introduce centrifugal force.
Other than that it was very nice.
