The elevator does the work of an overture. You step in at ground level in a parking structure off Reunion Boulevard, the doors close, and by the time they open again the city is 561 feet below and coming at you through glass on every side. On a Sunday morning that light is low and eastern and it fills the whole round room at once. Somebody hands you a mimosa before you have taken off your sunglasses.
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For a long time, the restaurant at the top of Reunion Tower was the kind of place you took out-of-town guests when you wanted to show them the skyline and hoped they wouldn’t ask too many questions about the food. That is no longer the situation. Crown Block opened up there in 2023 and has spent the last two years becoming a genuinely serious restaurant — Michelin-recommended in 2024 and again in 2025 — that happens to sit 360 feet above Reunion Boulevard inside that geodesic globe you’ve been driving past your whole life.
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