Each evening a smartly-uniformed Tower doorman welcomes expectant diners into the landmark building, guiding guests to the Tower's own dedicated express lift to its rooftop perch high above the Museum of Scotland.

Restaurant, lifts, toilets and terraces are entirely wheelchair accessible throughout, but as the Museum has a no smoking policy diners may only smoke on the terrace.

Entirely contemporary in style the Tower features a chic, colourful, luxurious and clubbable interior with striking aluminium furniture, velvet hangings, a mosaic bar and sexily curvaceous tweed banquettes.

Scottish leather in burnt orange, character oak tables, polished aluminium chairs, violet suede & other tactile materials are used throughout with most pieces being specially commissioned for the Tower.

Uniquely among contemporary restaurants, the Tower manages to be chic and elegant, but above all, warm, tactile and cossetting - with possibly the most flattering lighting ever!

As the New York Times wrote in 2004 "This restaurant serves up a feast of contemporary aesthetics and pleasant distractions even before you get to the menu. The Tower has a high-powered ambience"

whilst Food Illustrated noted that "It's so filmic and bizarre...Everything about the Tower, owned by James Thomson, is designed to impress. I absolutely loved it."

and the Scotsman " In the Tower the Patrician tastes of Edinburgh have been artfully eased towards Philippe Starck, but with no sacrifice of comfort...the place to see and be seen for edinburgh's smart set."