C Restaurant is a
revolving restaurant
A revolving restaurant or rotating restaurant is usually a tower restaurant eating space designed to rest atop a broad circular revolving platform that operates as a large turntable. The building remains stationary and the diners are carried on ...
located at Level 33 of
St Martins Tower
St Martins Tower is a office building in Perth, Western Australia. It was the tallest building in the city from its completion in 1978 for almost 10 years, until it was overtaken in height by the BankWest Tower in 1988. The tower contains a revo ...
in
Perth
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, Western Australia. It is the only revolving restaurant in Perth,
completing a full 360 degree rotation in 90 minutes
and has been described by ''
The Sunday Telegraph
''The Sunday Telegraph'' is a British broadsheet newspaper, founded in February 1961 and published by the Telegraph Media Group, a division of Press Holdings.
It is the sister paper of '' The Daily Telegraph'', also published by the Tele ...
'' of London as offering "views of the Swan River, the flat expanse of the suburbs and the dry hills 25 miles
0 kilometresbeyond".
History
C Restaurant is the second restaurant to be located at the top of St Martins Tower. The first, Hilite 33, was opened in 1978.
Its staff included a young Shane Osborn,
who was later the head chef at
Pied à Terre in London.
In 2000, Hilite 33's co-founder and then owner, Alain Kuhl, sold the business.
The other co-founder of Hilite 33 was Jean-Daniel Ichallalene.
The new owner, Phil Clements,
renamed the business, and relaunched it on
Australia Day
Australia Day is the official national day of Australia. Observed annually on 26 January, it marks the 1788 landing of the First Fleet at Sydney Cove and raising of the Union Flag by Arthur Phillip following days of exploration of Port J ...
, 26 January 2001.
Although Clements later claimed that C Restaurant offered "fun dining rather than fine dining", he also aimed to establish a national reputation.
He revamped the menu, instituting a two course minimum order to deter casually dressed sightseers from ordering a coffee and lingering to admire the view. Within less than 12 months, C Restaurant had become "all the rage",
and had won the Gold Plate award for fine and occasional dining.
Soon afterwards, it was the place where, on 23 March 2002, England cricketer
Ben Hollioake
Benjamin Caine Hollioake (11 November 1977 – 23 March 2002) was an English cricketer who played for Surrey County Cricket Club and the England cricket team. Born in Australia, Hollioake moved to England where he made his first-class cricket ...
attended a dinner with his family before dying in a car accident on the way home.
In August 2006, Clements sold the business to restaurant manager Olivier Letrone, entrepreneur Franck Duroleck and waiter Jermone Guesdon.
See also
*
Australian cuisine
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Australia
* Australia, a country
* Australians, citizens of the Commonwealth of Australia
** European Australians
** Anglo-Celtic Australians, Australians descended principally from British colonists
** Aboriginal Au ...
*
Greenhouse (restaurant)
Greenhouse was a bar/restaurant at 100 St Georges Terrace in Perth, Western Australia. Designed by Dutch-born florist, artist, builder and environmentalist Joost Bakker, and opened in 2009, it is a ''"quirky, eco-friendly restaurant"'' concept, ...
*
Print Hall
Print Hall is a four level bar/restaurant at Brookfield Place in Perth, Western Australia. Opened in 2012, and housed in the former headquarters of Perth's daily newspaper, ''The West Australian'', it has been described by ''The New York Times' ...
*
Western Australian wine
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