Alton Towers to open ‘rollercoaster restaurant’

A UK theme park is to open the country’s first “rollercoaster restaurant”, where food is delivered to diners via a 400m spiralling track and dropped eight metres to one of only 13 tables.

Set beneath a model rollercoaster, the length of a full size athletics track, at Alton Towers in Staffordshire, the novelty restaurant will allow diners to watch their order careen through two loop-the-loops before dropping through a “tornado spiral” to their table.

Each dish has been tested to make sure it can withstand the force of flying down the rollercoaster, apparently travelling faster than Mo Farah when he ran the 10,000m at the London 2012 Olympics, its creators claim. Over the course of a week, each dish will travel an average of 173 miles, from the kitchen to the table, the equivalent distance between Sheffield and London.

“The new rollercoaster restaurant will offer guests a unique dining experience that they can’t find anywhere else in the UK”, said Gill Riley of Alton Towers. “The intricate network of loops and spiralling tracks is an incredible spectacle and we feel that the new restaurant is an attraction in itself.”

The first concept of its kind in the UK, the restaurant will be accessible via a walkaway from the Enchanted Village and park’s hotels.

The Rollercoaster Restaurant will open on 13 May with pre booking now open.