Auzdein’s Esslokal

There are hundreds of restaurants in Inisfree, but only one whose menu was arranged entirely by the King.

 

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Table of Contents:

  1. Introduction
  2. Dimensions & Layout
  3. Décor
  4. Appetizers
  5. Main Course Menu
  6. Drinks
  7. Desserts
  8. Special Features
  9. 2023/+ Updates
  10. This Side of the Mountain (Images Begin)
  11. Design Sketch
  12. Interior Theme
  13. Favorite Plates & Meals

 

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Introduction:

This is my signature restaurant; all my favorite recipes are on the menu, and prepared by the best chefs in Inisfree (predominantly our ICVs which have graduated our 20 school grades and become Inisfreean Master Females).  Every time I find or invent a new favorite, you’ll see it added here.  100% of the menu is vegan.

 

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Dimensions & Layout

Overall, this establishment is based on The Rainforest Cafe of Disney World, Florida.  You can access it from two sets of double-doors; one is on the outside, open to the meadows surrounding the exterior of Sotu, and the other is where one wall of this restaurant meets the diagonal slope of the exterior of our pyramid-shaped Luxor 2 hotel.  Tables for groups of 5 are arranged in a honeycomb pattern across the wide central floor, with booths up against the walls.  Meter-tall dividing short-walls serve as the partitions, making it easy to identify and manage each section.  Along one of the two side walls is the open-faced kitchen where people can watch and smell their meals and drinks being prepared.  On the opposite side are sound-proof doors leading into the hallway to the private party rooms, each complete with its own hot-tub, as well as anchored tables & chairs.  There is also a wrap-around balcony one story up, overlooking the entire main room of the restaurant, with views of the tables, booths, and kitchen.

 

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Décor:

All of the walls are heavily decorated with life-like painted scenes of the various rain-forests around the world.  Real ivy hangs down along their sides to help frame them in a natural setting.  Wall sections without doors or windows have tall wall-like windows to big aquariums full of tropical fish and coral colonies.  The corners where the walls meet are masked in waterfalls cascading down over actual boulders and moss-covered megalithic blocks.  Chandeliers made of bioluminescent flora hang over each table and booth (and are sometimes the undersides of giant fake mushrooms, glowing like they do in the Zangar-marsh in World of Warcraft).  The floor is an even grid of wide tiles turned at a 45° angle to the orientation of the walls and partitions.  Animatronic wildlife examples (such as jaguars and exotic birds) are placed high up on cliff-like ledges built into the walls, and they sometimes make the signature noises of their species.  Indirect lighting creates flashes of lightning above the artificial treetop canopy masking the ceiling, and is paired with synchronized rain-and-thunderstorm recordings, like an enhanced version of what some grocery stores in the Outlands have been doing to the produce coolers in their vegetable aisles.  Around each booth is a mini-moat curving down from neck level at the back, to armrest-level at the outer sides.  All the chairs are sturdy, light-weight, 3D-printed fake wood (because we don’t like to cut down trees).

 

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Appetizers:

  1. Baked Battered Zucchini Wedges (not fried)
  2. Boneless Wings
  3. Coconut-crusted Shrimp
  4. Dips
  5. Flat-bread
  6. French-bakeds with Sprinkled Feta (a.k.a. ‘Greek-fries’, instead of French-fries)
  7. House-made Guacamole
  8. Jalapeño Poppers
  9. Mini Tamales
  10. Pop-overs
  11. Potato Skins (loaded)
  12. Salads
  13. Salsas
  14. Sampler Platters (pick your own combinations)
  15. Sliders
  16. Soups (by the cup)
  17. Stuffed Mushroom Caps

 

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Main Course Menu:

  1. Brisket Chili (new in 2023) or Brisket Nachos
  2. Burgers (veggie patty options on giant pretzel buns)
  3. Cheeses by the Block and Wheel! (with a great rotating-wheel melting-&-spreading option)
  4. Chicken Noodle Soup (with wedges from whole chicken breasts, never little clumps like you find in the canned soup of the Outlands)
  5. Couscous
  6. Crab Cakes (big ones always, and never with anything crunchy in them)
  7. Crêpes (choose your toppings; my favorite is finely shredded cheddar)
  8. Croque Monsieur
  9. Curries (pick your spiciness)
  10. Dolmas
  11. Earth-tones Bread-weaves (like Challah but with more colors; brown, tan, and white)
  12. Étouffée:  a meal of rice pilaf, Cajun gravy, oyster mushroom tempura, andouille tofu, and crème fraîche
  13. Kabobs
  14. Lettuce Wraps
  15. Mushroom-bun Burgers (with the Juicy Lucy option; melted cheese on the inside)
  16. Mushroom-patty Burgers (with the Juicy Lucy option; melted cheese on the inside)
  17. Omelets (choose your fillings, egg-white base is optional, “JUST” vegan egg-like mix is the norm, and a vegan gyro filling is now available)
  18. Orange-tofu Sliders with Soy-sauce Dip/Spread (new in 2023)
  19. Paleo Pizzas (including the thin-crust chicken, sweet corn, and light curry spice one from the Polish Italian restaurant in Scotland –dipping sauces include cilantro mint chutney)
  20. Pancakes (with infusion options, such as with chocolate chips or turkey bacon)
  21. Pesto Pastas
  22. Pot Roasts
  23. Potato-cakes Sliders with Aioli (new in 2023)
  24. ‘Ribs‘ (the lamb ribs with mashed potatoes infused with garlic and feta, of Axios in Denver)
  25. ‘Ribs’ Nachos (new in 2023)
  26. Rice Bowls
  27. Sandwiches (on giant pretzel buns and other breads)
  28. Soups (by the bowl, including a variety of Pho –with brown rice in creamy tomato soup added in 2022)
  29. Stews (by the bowl)
  30. Stingray Steaks
  31. Stuffed Bell Peppers
  32. Swordfish Steaks
  33. Tamales (no-lard, made with masa, and a Salvadorian plantain-husk with olives option)
  34. Tempeh-lox Breakfast-bagel Slider (new in 2023)
  35. Tofu Pot Pie
  36. Vegan Shepherd’s Pie
  37. Vegetable Chili with Broccoli-cheese Soup, Beet Crackers, and a Milk Chocolate
  38. Vegetables Tray with Hummus
  39. 2024 April:  New fave discovered/”unlocked”!  Tomato soup poured onto Mongolian BBQ bowl!

New Sandwich of 2022:  Smoked Tofu Panini; with portabella mushrooms, spinach, vegan goat cheese, chipotle aioli, on ciabatta, with garlic fries and slaw

 

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Drinks:

  1. almond milks (such as with chocolate)
  2. blends
  3. coconut drinks (juice, water, with or without pulp, and sometimes served in the actual coconut)
  4. every juice there is (all natural, nothing added, pulp included, with mixes optional)
  5. flavored waters (always via only natural juices)
  6. floats (have them made from any of our many ice-cream flavors)
  7. horchata
  8. lemonade
  9. limeade
  10. rice milks
  11. shakes (have them made from any of our many ice-cream flavors)
  12. smoothies
  13. teas (hundreds of kinds, all listed and described)
  14. water (the purest you will ever taste)

 

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Desserts:

  1. Cheesecakes (as many as are available at The Cheesecake Factory)
  2. Chocolate Fondue Fountain
  3. Gelatos (dozens of flavors)
  4. Lava Cake
  5. Mille-feuille (‘Napoleon’)
  6. Oreo-crust Ice-cream Pie
  7. Pastries (such as Bear Claws; almond-paste filled and icing drizzled)
  8. Pies (all the classics:  apple, chocolate, pecan, pumpkin, and sweet potato; my favorite)
  9. Whole Watermelons (sliced or sculpted)

 

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Special Features:

Everything on the menu includes the following options:

  1. à la carte
  2. Cold & hot items can be served via nyotaimori on an ICV waitress.
  3. Cool & lukewarm items can be served via nyotaimori on a kajira waitress.
  4. gluten-free
  5. Paleo
  6. pescatarian
  7. vegan
  8. vegetarian (almost everything in Inisfree is vegan, but there are still a few cruelty-free dairy-based cheeses available, if you can believe that; we do not take the baby cows from their mothers, for example, harvesting only their excess, if there is any, and typically only long-after telepathic contact/conversation/friendship/agreement has been established)

 

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2023/+ Updates:

General notes and new menu items will be posted here.

  • Jack & Annie’s buffalo ‘wings’ (vegan nuggets) as ‘sliders’ (mini burger-style sandwiches) with heirloom baby tomato slices, mixed greens, sprouts, and vegan honey mustard or vegan ranch dipping sauce
  • Auz’s avocado toast:  Dave’s Killer white bread, avocado whole (applied as spread, half-avo’ per slice), ‘beefsteak’/jumbo tomato slices (1 per bread slice), microgreens, thinly-sliced radish, thinly-sliced cucumber, arugula, scrambled tofu or JUST Egg, finished with a drizzle of Sky Valley taco sauce
  • garlic potato-stuffed naan as base of flatbread pizza, w/ any toppings you like; big red olives, Field Roast sausage, pesto (green or red), pine nuts, pineapple, roasted or sautéed kale, etc.
  • General Tso’s tofu on a hoagie
  • orange-sauce tofu on a hoagie
  • Tacotarian giant taco in soft flour tortilla around middle layer of refried beans, w/ Sky Valley taco sauce

 

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This Side of the Mountain:

(general area/location)

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Design Sketch:

(to show indoor balcony seating around central rainforest-theme ground-floor dining area, plus party-rooms)

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Interior Theme:

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Favorite Plates & Meals:

(just a few examples of far more in total)

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