Other hotel amenities include six unique dining venues, an 860-square-meter spa by ESPA, a glass-enclosed infinity pool with LED screen ceiling and an outdoor terrace with a glass-enclosed bar, both on the 118th floor.
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The lower level is outfitted with a 50-inch flat-screen television, a wine fridge and a glass light-up bar.
This classic establishment lines the wall of the hotel facing Madison Avenue, which can be seen through stained glass windows behind the bar, and is a perfect place to sip an aperitif and watch hotel guests go about their business.
The entry-level customer can stop in, have a glass of wine at the bar and leave.
The upper level has a two-story tower room, a wet bar, a glass-enclosed Conservatory and Pavilion that open onto a wraparound terrace with park and sunset views.
Nevada Solar One uses a parabolic trough design, in which curved mirrors, 16 feet from top to bottom, concentrate the sun's rays onto a glass tube with a steel bar at its center.
"I sit in the corner of the bar and sip a glass of water and I say hello to my old customers, " he explained.
The bar, with its glass shelves filled with fine tequilas and a set of Lalique glasses found at auction, would have felt out of place in Smith's previous house.
Concerns like this have motivated at least one bar owner to ban Google Glass from the premises.
By 5:30 on any given day, half the bar will have a rocks glass full of the stuff in hand.
Placing a wine glass with a tag similar to a bar code on the table, for example, could call up details about the wine and its vineyard.
The only negative experience occurred in the King Cole Bar where I had ordered a glass of white wine.
The assumption that she was there simply to pour him a glass of sparkling water from the mini-bar would have been wide of the mark.
Plastic bottle from the bar well splashed into a plastic shot glass that resembled the little cup the comes with a bottle of cough medicine.
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Later, as Becky made her way to the bar, flashing a warm smile was all it took for a tall, handsome guy sipping a glass of red wine to ask her which sport she was watching (we were in a sports bar, because that's where you go when you're looking for bountiful testosterone).
The only trouble came a few hours before the game, when a dozen young Russians threw glass bottles at Chelsea fans who were drinking outside a popular bar.
We stood against the bar and Javier did all the ordering, including a glass of alcoholic cider for me, which the bartender poured from a bottle into a glass held apart as far as his arms could reach.
With a 15m-long bar and a luminous chandelier made up of 11, 000 glass rods, the sparkling interior echoes the view below.
The Melrose Avenue bar celebrates drinking en francais with 10 French wines by the glass, 15 champagnes and a few French-style beers.
Ure talks incredulously of once having a glass of wine literally taken out of his hand at 8pm on a Tuesday because the bar owner wanted to close.
Nearby is the 563-room Shangri-La, an ultramodern marble and glass tower hotel offering equally expansive rooms and views, free wi-fi, and a bar on the 36th floor with a very popular happy hour.
At the bar, set in the middle of this garden, I sit one night sipping a glass of Hakushu single malt.
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