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There is something very modernist about the whole revolving restaurant thing: a 60s/70s international style fad that has just about survived into the 21st-century. You can imagine Augusto Pinochet, fresh from one of his shopping trips to London, asking Santiago's city planners to come up with something that could replicate the GPO Tower dining experience.

Bizarrely, my main course at the Giratorio was like a Chilean riff on fish'n'chips: battered conger eel and a fried egg and chips. Not bad actually. And the wine was, as you'd expect in Chile, excellent.

Unlike with some revolving restaurants I have visited, the Giratorio building itself does not move, instead the restaurant is on a kind of giant turntable inside a rectangular steel and glass structure. With mountains on all sides, the 90-minute journey around Santiago is a picturesque and contemplative experience. Can the Muzak though please, guys.]]> http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/4471 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/3788 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/3788 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/4472 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/4472 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/4216 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/4216