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Pagan Fires dinner
2018-Aug-19, Sunday 11:52
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wanderluster_kp asked me if I wanted to go to a fancy restaurant for dinner with her on a free weekend. She suggested Alinea, but since I had just gotten an email from Elizabeth, and since I really enjoyed the last time I went there, I suggested going there instead. They were having a dinner called "Pagan Fires" themed after various gods and goddesses and the description sounded really good, so I bought tickets and on Friday, she came down from Michigan and we went out to the restaurant.
Unlike the last time I was there, the restaurant wasn't really decorated extensively, which surprised me. I had expected that there would be themed decor, the way that the Game of Thrones brunch had house banners hanging on the walls, but the only concession to the theme was that our napkins were wrapped around oversized Tarot cards--I got the Devil andwanderluster_kp got the Seven of Cups. I guess I couldn't have expected them to build shrines to the deities named in the menu, but maybe portraits or art? Or maybe that was hard too, since several of the deities were South American or Polynesian and I don't know what kind of art exists of them or how easy it would be to commission. 
When the server came, I ordered the vegetarian gods menu andwanderluster_kp ordered the meat-and-seafood goddesses menu. We were thinking about getting a bottle of the one sake that was on the menu, but while there was just enough to get a glass for each of us, that was the last of the sake they had. Oh well.
( Here are some food pictures! )
After the meal we went back to my apartment andwanderluster_kp told me about a date she has thanks to a HIPAA violation (on the guy's part, not on hers) and then we both played Breath of the Wild. I have a ton of Zelda amiibo and wanderluster_kp doesn't have any, so she scanned them in hoping to get lucky and get a neat piece of armor or some other reward. Sadly, while she did get the guaranteed Epona from the Smash Bros amiibo, she got nothing else. Maybe next time she visits.
wanderluster_kp asked me if I wanted to go to a fancy restaurant for dinner with her on a free weekend. She suggested Alinea, but since I had just gotten an email from Elizabeth, and since I really enjoyed the last time I went there, I suggested going there instead. They were having a dinner called "Pagan Fires" themed after various gods and goddesses and the description sounded really good, so I bought tickets and on Friday, she came down from Michigan and we went out to the restaurant.Unlike the last time I was there, the restaurant wasn't really decorated extensively, which surprised me. I had expected that there would be themed decor, the way that the Game of Thrones brunch had house banners hanging on the walls, but the only concession to the theme was that our napkins were wrapped around oversized Tarot cards--I got the Devil and
wanderluster_kp got the Seven of Cups. I guess I couldn't have expected them to build shrines to the deities named in the menu, but maybe portraits or art? Or maybe that was hard too, since several of the deities were South American or Polynesian and I don't know what kind of art exists of them or how easy it would be to commission. When the server came, I ordered the vegetarian gods menu and
wanderluster_kp ordered the meat-and-seafood goddesses menu. We were thinking about getting a bottle of the one sake that was on the menu, but while there was just enough to get a glass for each of us, that was the last of the sake they had. Oh well. ( Here are some food pictures! )
After the meal we went back to my apartment and
wanderluster_kp told me about a date she has thanks to a HIPAA violation (on the guy's part, not on hers) and then we both played Breath of the Wild. I have a ton of Zelda amiibo and wanderluster_kp doesn't have any, so she scanned them in hoping to get lucky and get a neat piece of armor or some other reward. Sadly, while she did get the guaranteed Epona from the Smash Bros amiibo, she got nothing else. Maybe next time she visits.
