etween Granite and Undigested Crystals: A Disappointing Feast at the Prismatableau
Enticed by the prismatic vista and convincing holographic menus, I visited Prismatableau in the Granietrondeel of Vatrium. Sadly, the culinary experience was an exercise in disappointment: what was promised as a wondrous meal delivered only confusion and suspect stomach-fillers.
Those tempted by a meal at ‘Prismatableau’, the recently reopened restaurant at the edge of the Prism Towers, will soon wonder whether this venue truly belongs to the vibrant market culture of the Granietrondeel. My entrance, floating in on a market platform, was promising: holographic menus, attendants clad in translucent granite robes, and a view of the roaring Victoria Cascades pouring plasma into distant chasms. Sadly, the plate did not match the panorama.
The signature dish, the much-touted Stonifer Special, proved little more than a lukewarm allegory of abundance: granules of flavor crystal devoid of aroma, and floating slabs of 'dimensional beef' supposedly ripened in temporal streams but in truth closer to indeterminate chewing rubber. The crystal sauce, billed as a luminous sensation, only prompted a flicker from the table surface instead of my taste buds. The supposedly seasonal Valva-youde salpicon resembled collapsed market ceilings in both texture and flavor, while the famous echo-caviar seemed perpetually out of stock whenever I asked.
The staff, no doubt chosen for their talent at navigating the bureaucratic flux of the Granietrondeel, were as inscrutable as the local currency system. Only after deploying my identity resonance several times into the air-based paypad did I receive a slapdash hologram for a receipt – the sole tangible result of my entire visit. Adventurers might take a gamble here, but those truly seeking edible fare would do better to plunge into the time-twisting waterfalls than risk a second try.