“Welcome to Birdie’s Tearoom!” A cheerful waitress in a white blouse and a navy blue skirt trots over to you and hands you a small leather-covered booklet. “Here’s our menu. We do home-style meals and desserts, or you can get a cup of tea, hot chocolate, or coffee. Birdie sells some of her paintings too. You can go right through that door over there,” the waitress pointed to a door across the room and continued. “And take a look at Birdie’s gallery. She does commissions too. We’ll find a seat for you in a few minutes!” With that, the waitress trotted off to attend to other customers. The exterior of the Tearoom is a light, cheerful green, and flowerbeds full of red and yellow gladioli line the sides of the building. The place is located at the end of a barely traveled street. A sign hangs from the door. “BIRDIE’S TEAROOM~HOME-STYLE COOKING AND OIL PAINTINGS.” A bell tinkles merrily as soon as you step through the door. Once you’re inside, you see a charming, rustic looking bench against the cream colored wall. It’s there for you to relax while you wait to be seated. A desk where you’ll pay for your meal stands in the middle of the pathway to the dining area. You can see tables with white cloths, and each table had a vase full of fresh cut gladioli. The tables were spread out across the floor, and there were a few booths in the south facing windows. Almost every table was occupied. Paintings are hanging all around the dining area, and some of them have price tags attached to the frames. The menu has many items listed. The first few pages are filled with some of the most popular dishes. Country Buttermilk Chicken Six pieces of chicken fried in Birdie’s classic buttermilk recipe. Comes with your choice of dark or white gravy, toast, and waffle fries. Cranberry Salad Heaping helping of fresh spinach, lettuce, and kale, along with avocado slices, apple slices and dried cranberries. Comes with your choice of dressing. The other pages were full of similar home-style dishes and drink options, and the back of the menu was full of desserts like Peach and Granola Cobbler and Angel Food Cake. The last page had lots of information on the paintings and Birdie’s commissions. All of the oil paintings in the tearoom were for sale, and Birdie would do commissions for a small fee. Most of her paintings were landscapes, but she did portraits too. When you walk through the door on the other side of the dining room, you’ll find yourself in a small, somewhat dim room with velvety draperies. Bright white lights shine directly on the paintings that are on every wall, and a few people are drifting across the rooms, admiring the paintings. A curtain separates the last fourth of the room from the other three. Birdie’s private painting area is behind that curtain, and you can occasionally see her shadow or hear her shuffling some papers. She comes out when she’s not painting, and she’ll talk with some of the people in the gallery. Occasionally you’ll see her helping out in the dining area, but she’s usually behind her curtain. The paintings she has on display are exquisite, and the prices are very good. You order a meal, and it’s delicious. The coffee to go is wonderful— piping hot too!
Weekly for Fantasy! WC 568 lol this one was a bit harder to figure out, so I might have butchered this.
