Fort Lauderdale’s original revolving hot spot is back — with a twist. Literally.
Pier Top, the famous rotating rooftop restaurant at the newly renovated Pier Sixty-Six resort , has reopened atop the iconic tower on the 17th Street Causeway. The resort, which originally opened in 1965 but closed in 2017, reopened in January of this year after a billion dollar reconstruction.
The designated historic landmark, an icon to anyone who grew up in Fort Lauderdale in the 1960s and ’70s, ranks up there with the Mai-Kai Restaurant and Polynesian Show and The Wreck Bar with its sassy mermaids in terms of Broward County history. After riding up the elevator from the lobby of the tower, you can gaze out the windows at the 360-degree view of the ocean and the Intracoastal Waterway, the mighty workings of Port Everglades, and yachts and mansions you probably can’t afford…