As we approach the 10 year anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, the latest issue of New York features a 9/11 encyclopedia. One of the items within it is a special remembrance of Windows on the World, the restaurant complex located on the 106th and 107th floors of the North Tower, written by Ruth Reichl.
From 1976 until the attacks, Windows on the World was one of the most iconic (and expensive) restaurants in the country. It made more than $37 million in annual revenues, making it America's top-grossing restaurant. In the two-floor complex were the main restaurant, a smaller restaurant called Wild Blue, and "The Greatest Bar on Earth." 78 employees of the restaurant perished in the attacks.
"It’s been said we’ve romanticized the place after the horror of what happened there. I’d say we romanticized it all along. It was never about the food. It was about ambition and dreams. It was a temple of New York magic," Reichl writes.
Did you ever eat at Windows on the World?