Used to be that Aria in the China World Hotel was the favored spot for expense account types to have their power lunches. Move over Aria: the China Grill on the 66th floor of the newly opened Park Hyatt is taking over. The views alone are (almost) worth the very hefty price of entry. Above is a view of the CCTV Tower and the unfinished World Trade Center Tower, which be the city’s tallest when completed, a position now held by the Park Hyatt’s Yin Tai Center. Below is the view looking west down Changan Avenue towards Tiananmen Square and the Forbidden City. For a story on China’s hotel boom, I actually visited the building while it was still being built. The perspective was a little different, to put it mildly, as I noted at the time in this blog post.
