What does anyone know of this restaurant in the Eiffel Tower? I see that there are a number of tours that use this restaurant, so is it a tourist trap with poor food and unnecessarily expensive? It seems like a nice idea to eat in the Tower and I'd like to try this restaurant out if anyone feels it is worth it. By the way, I'm not really interested in paying the high costs at the better Jules Verne, also in the Tower. Thanks for any advice.

My husband and I ate dinner there about 3 years ago. Yes, it was expensive. Food was good but not excellent. We thought it was worth it for the views alone. I would do it again. Didn't see a lot of tourists when we were there in May.

Check out recent thread entitled "Right Eiffel Tower Restaurant". There are some educated discussions of the restaurant within it.

We had lunch there on Valentine's day last year. It was nice, the views were great, and the food good. Menu lunch for two with 1/2 pitcher of house wine was about $65. I would say go for it.

The only downfall was you had to wait in line with all the other tourists going up the tower. Since we had a 12:30 reservation and didn't realize that they didn't have their own elevator (Jules Verne has their private elevator to the top to their restaurant), we went to the front of the line and they let us cut in front to buy our ticket to the first level.

I would recommend doing lunch and not dinner. There are so many other great restaurants in town.

I took my friend there for a birthday dinner in July of 1999. We had reservations so that we'd be there for the sunset. Had a window table overlooking the Trocadero. It was a beautiful sight! We both enjoyed our dinner, the price fixe menu was definitely worth it.

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Let's put it this way. There is only one major reason to have dinner there. It is on the Eiffel Tower. If this same exact restaurant were on the ground in any neighborhood, it would have been out of business years ago.
That is not meant as a negative, but a simple fact. If eating a meal on the Eiffel Tower is special to you, and there are a million reasons why it would be, then by all means go. I'm sure you will have had far worse meals many other places. Yes, it is overpriced (for the restaurant it is), but afterall it IS in the Eiffel Tower. So go for it.