![]() Both Five-Sixty and Cloud Nine Cafe offer a full bar. Also the work of World-renowned chef Wolfgang Puck, Cloud Nine offers a more casual dining option for visitors to the tower. One level below Five-Sixty sits the Cloud Nine Café. The entire restaurant is built ona revolve that rotates the dining room one full revolution over the course of an hour. Named for the exact altitude at which the restaurant sits in the air, this restaurant offers a full 360-degree view of the city for every diner, though not all at once. The top floor of the tower houses Wolfgang Puck’s fine dining restaurant, Five-Sixty. The useful computer system and the sweeping views of the city make the Geo-Deck a must-see first stop on any Dallas excursion. The HALO system allows users to make sense of all the buildings and landmarks visible from the tower and provides useful information such as distances between sites, explanations of buildings, rivers, and landmarks, and points out places of interest that you might not know to look for otherwise. On a clear day, you can see Fort Worth and the ballparks and football stadium in between. Inside there is an interactive, touch-screen computer system called HALO. ![]() The view itself gives you a solid idea of the layout of the city. Although there are security bars and safety gates, the altitude may prove too exciting for those with a serious fear of heights (me). The open-air, wrap-around deck gives you the sense of just how high up you are. The Geo-Deck offers a 360 degree view of the city offering both indoor and outdoor views. The bottom of the three top stories of the building houses the Geo-Deck, my personal favorite. The top two floors hold restaurants, Five Sixty and Cloud 9, which we’ll get to in a second. The Tower recently reopened in 2013 after renovations of the three main floors at the top were completed. The Dallas skyline is beautiful from the ground, but the view from almost 600 feet up is on a whole other level. Like so many other Dallasites, I have grown up under the watchful eye of “The Ball” and until this week had never taken the 68-second elevator ride to the top to get a bird’s-eye view of Dallas. Another fascinating, if somewhat disappointing, trait that the Statue of Liberty and Empire State Building share with our Reunion Tower is that most of the people who have spent a lifetime gazing up at these emblematic towers have, in fact, never been there. Reunion Tower is to Dallas what the Empire State Building and the Statue of Liberty are to New York City: an instantly recognizable icon. It has many nicknames: “The Microphone,” “The Texas Dandelion,” “The Dallas Disco,” and most commonly, “The Ball.” No matter what you want to call it, Reunion Tower is not only the most iconic part of the Dallas skyline, but the necessary first stop for visitors and newcomers to the Big D.
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