"hey man were rotating whats good with u?"

I bought a guidebook from "Time Out - Delhi" when I first decided that I was coming to the city for study abroad. The book is pocket-size and it's just pages of lists of restaurants and bars and clubs and shops. There's one listing that's stood out among all of the rest since day one, and you only need two words from the description to understand why I was so excited about it: rotating restaurant.

View of Connaught Place from the rotating restaurant.

I've been trying to make moves to this place for months now, and we finally went on Saturday night (after the whole Qutub Minar photograph incident). We were warned that the food wasn't that good, so we just wanted to get drinks and appetizers and rotate for a while before getting dinner at a less expensive, better quality restaurant. But rotating restaurants are awesome. Sarah and I arrived at sunset, and three of our friends met up with us later on. We were overlooking Connaught Place and could see a lot of the city's major sites, save for the dense layer of smog.

There were other uniquely Indian problems with this restaurant, besides the smog. Like when the rotating floor stopped rotating because of a brief power surge. Those are common in Delhi, and realizing that a rotating restaurant can't rotate because of power surges is a curious manifestation of a very serious problem. We also kept on losing cell phone service at strange intervals, and I'm pretty convinced that we were rotating in and out of dead zones.

The food was as mediocre as we had been warned, but the Kingfishers were cold which is really the important thing. It was nice to get together in a small group and just rotate over Delhi. Just a some quiet moments to reflect on the two and a half months we've had in this city.

There was also a silk rose on the table, for that touch of class. Obviously this meant that we needed to take some photographs.