Good morning and it's nice to et all of you. May the Goddess bless our auspicious eting today, everybody. My na is Hestia Atsuko Kargryxmor, and Im the princess of whatever, as it doesnt matter today and, hehe, it looks like you all already know .
Four chefs, five waiters and waitresses, and one dishwasher. That was the current number of employees Tamae had House Helvas and House Greenveil hire for our restaurant. All were either commoners with great references from working with the aristocracy or were mbers of a schwertnoble family, making them barons and viscounts.
At first, there were more people in this group, about twenty at first. However, Tamae never planned on getting so many people for the first iteration of the restaurant. She only wanted the minimum. Since we were planning on serving the influential with our establishnt, there had to be so tests to weed out the less efficient workers from the best. And these were the best candidates from the entire pool, who were then allowed to build a rapport under Tamae and Svena.
After recruiting the people for the eatery yesterday, Tamae and I decided it was also high ti we properly trained these people. We managed to finish up the nu yesterday and were now confident in sharing the recipes with our employees. As such, I decided on appearing today to make sure it went smoothly.
Buuuuuut, of course, it kinda went as you might expect considering they knew about .
I-It is an honor, Princess Hestia! The ten-man group announced while kneeling down. As I said, all of them had experience working with nobles, so they knew sowhat how to act when they t a royal.
I smiled wryly as I turned around to face Alia, who had a I told you so expression. Svena, standing behind sighed and moved up, clapping her hands.
Everybody, Lady Hestia thanks you for your formality, but today is an important day. There is much to do, so we do not have the ti to waste. Please, stand up, she ordered, prompting everybody to stand up. Clearly still nervous, they looked pretty rigidly as Tamae moved in front.
Everybody, today is a very important day, as this will be the start of our journey together as a team of restaurant Aurora. As you know, the goal for this restaurant is to serve premium dishes for our guests in our pursuit to better the culinary arts of our world, Tamae began her speech. As we have all told you before, I am one of the Heroes of Aurena and ca from a different world than Peolynca. Hestia here is the one responsible for the spread of her version of yeast throughout Artorias, and will also bring in various recipes from her holand. With the both of us, we managed to create a nu of dishes we believed would be best suited for the first worldwide restaurant of Peolynca.
First worldwide restaurant of Peolynca sounded lofty for a title, but it was true. In Artorias, nobles didnt go out to eat. They either stayed at ho or visited anothers nobles mansion to eat with them. In Gleisvale, we did find so eateries which served food to wealthy rchants, but none of them were called restaurants.
But I guess the most enticing part about being able to claim that title was the fact that our restauraunt used the nexus as a platform to serve people from different countries and cities in a single place. Just like how Duke Greenveil was able to negotiate with the new Duke Equevanna despite being two duchies away, we could serve people from Gleisvale and Artorias at the sa ti.
Svena handed copies of our nu to the staff mbers, allowing them to read what we were planning. As I read through it, I noticed the majority of the employees were raising an eyebrow. Considering about 90% of the dishes on the nu were heavily inspired by Earthen dishes, it was to be expected they never heard about them.
Mister Ademnis, Tamae called out to a brawny man with a slight belly dressed in a white outfit you would expect a chef from a fine dining restaurant. With a stern expression, he nodded and walked forward. As I ntioned last ti, you will be my sous chef my deputy chef, in other words. You will be my second-in-command while we work in the kitchen, so you must be sure to rember every single dish, do you understand?
Of course, Lady Tamae. Such a gift from the Goddess, I will cherish it from the depth of my heart. I shall mark each ingredient into my soul, to never forget them. Surprisingly, or maybe not, this aloof-looking man showed a fierce passion for not only cooking but Aurena, too. He was the only person I saw who was more focused on reading the nu than being flustered by them.
Good. Tamae clapped her hands before putting her hair into a ponytail. Then, I expect you and everybody else to watch intently how we cook these dishes. Hestia. Priscilla. Lets go.
Hearing the signal, Svena quickly turned my slightly ssy hair into a perfect ponytail while the 13-year-old Priscilla stepped out from her hiding spot behind Tamae. Unlike every other ti Ive t her, Priscilla wasnt in her human form today, but rather she showed up in her dragonewt form.
W-What??? The employees looked at the two of us in surprise.
Tamae, noticing this, quickly explained what was happening. I had to test each individual dish before I placed them on the nu, of course. Since it was late, I needed help and I called on Hestia and this young dragonewt for help. Priscilla shall be my sous chef for the eatery designed to serve commoners. She has learned how to make every single dish on the nu sowhat. Mister Ademnis, I expect you to do the sa.
Y-Yes! Lady Tamae! Finally flustered, Tamaes sous chef eyes widened as he watched Priscilla walk past him and to her station in the kitchen. I heard all of the employees here declined to work in the eatery, as it wasnt part of their contract, so I did wonder what Tamae was planning by having Priscilla here today.
Yesterday, while Tamae and I worked on the nu, Yorshka ca back to the subspace with both her daughter and Haati. While Svena and Josine showed Haati to her room, located in the attendant area" as the forr two liked to call it, Priscilla joined us with eyes filled with anticipation. She wanted to cook.
Watching her childish curiosity, we couldnt help ourselves and decided on testing the dishes with her. At first, Tamae and I worked together since we knew Saori and Asaka wouldnt be around today due to their spy mission. I was also sowhat familiar with each dish and how they should taste, so I was the best helper Tamae could find for the restaurants the of French and Italian inspired dishes her parents specialties.
After we managed to produce passable versions of about 60% of the nu and allowed Priscilla to taste them, we then began training as a three-man group, emulating the process of an actual kitchen. We had to show the chefs how to cook the dishes and the waiters and waitresses how they tasted and looked, so this was the only way to do it.
Of course, I saw that they were nervous that I was participating, but I simply told them this wasnt a problem.
As I said, everybody. My rank doesnt matter today. Instead of focusing on it and becoming nervous, watch and learn. All ten of you will beco the forerunners for the culinary evolution of our world. With [Royal Presence] activated, I gave them a slight motivational speech before I joined the other two. I had my head already turned around before I saw how they reacted, but since Svena didnt tell them off as the head waitress for the restaurant, my words probably did sothing.
Once the three of us were at our stations, we all breathed in deeply and out.
Alright, the first step is the entres. Let us begin! Hestia, cast your spells!
And that was the signal to begin!
Haste! Music on!
[Haste] [Music Resonation (Minor)] inflicted on [Young Sunfang Dragon, Hestia Atsuko Kargryxmor]
With a snap, a gray magic circle appeared around before I began playing so classical music, sharing the buff with Tamae and Priscilla. By thinking of my spectators as enemies, I could prevent them from gaining the buff.
Using my high Agility and [Haste] buff, I moved into the pantry and carried out the ingredients needed for our entrees. Once they were there, I began cutting the chicken, removing all the at and fat from the bones as best I could; anwhile, Priscilla began cutting the vegetables while using wind magic to help her.
French and Italian cuisine. Those are nas of the cultures our nu will be inspired from. Fine dining, regardless of which world it ca from, always strives to bring out the potential of the ingredients. To elevate them further beyond what you could imagine. The mark of a good chef is being flexible enough to adapt to the local produce, and to turn that into your art. Tamae began her explanation. While cutting the at, I noticed the chefs taking notes on wooden slates, focusing on watching either Priscilla or .
Tamae continued. I will not be adapting everything I learned from Earth into this restaurant for now, but I will add more once I beco satisfied with the current results. As such, the first course of our guests als will be the entre the entry dish.
Proficiency requirent fulfilled. [Dismantle Lv. 8] evolved into [Dismantle Lv. 9]
Once the bones and vegetables were ready, Priscilla and I placed everything into a tal pot placed over a stove. Then Priscilla activated the fire runes Grimnir etched onto them, creating fire without the need for wood. By pouring more mana into the rune, the flas grew in size and warmth. Once done, she slightly filled the pot with water using her magic. Like her mother, Priscilla was a water and wind mage and has been using her magic during her days in the hunters guild kitchen.
Too warm, Priscilla, I called out before using [Volcanic Blaze] to reduce the size of the fla to boil the water slower. Priscilla caught on and removed so mana from the rune.
Priscilla then grabbed the dried spaghetti I brought out and put them into another pot to boil with so salt, beginning the second entree spaghetti napoli, also known as marinara. Afterwards, we left the rest to Tamae and began the preparations for the main course.
There are multiple entrees we could offer, but I am planning on keeping it small with four options. Two of them an cepillium chicken consumm and tazghetti with matato sauce will be served for you to taste today.
While we kept the word consumm around since we didnt know a better alternative, we did change the word for spaghetti into tazghetti since the noodles were made using tazlokwheat. This dwarven wheat was the toughest wheat we could find, making it perfect to give our noodles that bite you expect from them.
Also, since the nas of certain ingredients were completely different in this world, we also had to change them to their Peolyncian variant. Onions were cepilliums and tomatoes were matatoes.
With the help of House Greenveil, we managed to start production on tazghetti and other pasta hard noodles varieties similar to our yeasts facilities. Watch and learn. This is how you make the noodles al dente. Just right. And, the sauce cannot be neglected, as that will be the lynchpin of the dish, alright, Miss Ivy?
Yes, Lady Tamae. I will make sure to focus," the saucier of the kitchen staff nodded.
With her deft hand, Tamae began preparing the tomato sauce for the pasta, explaining her moves and actions while preparing it as if it was second nature for her. Once the noodles were done, she poured out the warm water and rinsed the noodles in cold water using the rune-etched sink. Pretty much the whole kitchen had different runes made by Grimnir.
All of you are beginners when it cos to being mages, so please use the in-built mana batteries to fuel the runes. Otherwise, use your magic to expedite the process, okay?
In Peolynca, magic was everywhere and, for many people, it was also a daily part of their lives. As attendants and servants of the Artorian nobility, they were taught beginner-level magic to help them with their work. As such, every single employee before us had one or two spells in their profile.
In this world, we could use that magic to speed up our cooking process. Saori used her [Shadow Clones] to man the kitchen by herself, and Priscilla and I used our spells to make the cooking easier.
In a normal kitchen, chefs didnt use magic as often due to the threat of arcane corruption. It was always a problem for them since they didnt have access to fulinoe leaves. However, we did. We offered tea to them to drink during their breaks. While expensive for a normal business, to us, the leaves grew in our garden in abundance.
With the tazghetii with matato sauce finished, Tamae served a large portion for everybody to taste, including Svena, Alia, and Josine. After showing them how to eat it, everybody else began to devour it.
Mhmm. As expected from Tamae. Your food is always delectable to eat, Alia praised Tamae, being the only one to sit down as she was a noble.
While Alia, Svena, and Josine were already used to Tamaes cooking from staying inside the RV, the staff mbers, on the other hand, were blown away.
Mhmm?! How are these noodles so soft but still firm at the sa ti? Werent they made with tazlokwheat? Shouldnt they be harder? one of the waitresses exclaid, baffled as she tasted the noodles.
You must be joking? Concentrate on the sauce. Didnt Lady Tamae only use matatoes, allsati, papricha, and so aromatic herbs to make it? Why does it taste so much better than what Ive already made? The chef called Ivy comnted, only tasting the sauce without the noodles.
Ivy, dont just concentrate on the sauce. Lady Tamae already taught us to take in the full experience, we need to taste and analyze everything presented to us, another chef rebuked Ivy before taking in another fork full of pasta.
If you want to have an answer, then it has to be how she crushed the herbs with the papricha seeds before combining it with the crushed matatoes. Also, you ignored the Port Annencia fish sauce and how she let the matato sauce lose its liquid. You dont have that watery taste polluting the end product, sous chef Ademnis comnted on how Tamae prepared and added all the ingredients, even ntioning reduction without knowing the proper na for it.
Picking up an allsati Peolyncian garlic Tamae praised Ademnis for guessing the technique. Good eye, Mister Ademnis. These are cooking techniques to bring out a better taste. I reduced as much liquid in the sauce before letting it simr on low heat. Dont let the sauce boil. You need to keep it warm, but if you boil too much, you ruin the tastes of the herbs and cepillium as you denature them. Burn them, in other words.
Ooooooooh!
Seems like the chefs are really getting excited now, I thought as they began asking Tamae more and more questions. I thought she might beco overwheld, but any worry was unwarranted as she was in her elent right now.
Look at this soup. Consum is a clear soup without any fat or impurities. It is the perfect soup, arguably. Like in a normal broth, remove the stock. All the minerals and vitamins have been extracted from them now. Remove the remaining fat before adding an egg. Tamae continued with the soup, serving it to the delighted employees who wanted to savor more of her food.
This continued with the main dish where she took the lead as Priscilla and I made the desserts, which were my specialty.
Bask the at! Always bask the at if the star of the dish is the protein. Butter, herbs, garlic, wine. Whatever you can add to elevate it even further! Tamae continued with the steak. This sauce here is also gold, do you four understand? You can use it to garnish the dish. Use it! Dont waste ti on making another sauce if it doesnt require one. The fat, the cooked butter with the herbs. Its heavenly ambrosia.
After tasting it, Ademnis once again stated his genuine surprise. Such a simple technique but it can bring at to such a level? Incredible! [Cooking] levels are worthless if they doesnt teach you such cooking thods.
Of course, an Artorian chef wouldnt know about basking at with its own sauce. The noble chefs in Artorias preferred cooking everything in cauldrons or roasting it over a fire. Cooking pans were less commonly used, as they were a dwarven creation in this world, reserved to fry up rice and noodles. Grilling the at in a pan wasnt common since the whole animal was usually roasted over the fire for noble dinners.
After serving a pan-seared steak in red wine sauce, grilled salmon in herbal dressing, and then tomato chicken with garlic rice, it was ti for dessert.
Proficiency requirent fulfilled. [Cooking Lv. 8] evolved into [Cooking Lv. 9]
Tiramisu with fulinoe tea mascarpone and butter canel with wine and caralized honey filling. Please, enjoy. I presented them with the final touch to this three-course al.
Mhmm! Alia's eyes widened as she tasted the tiramisu first. So creamy! Mhmm, what is this cream? This mascarpone?
I have to agree, Lady Alia, Josine agreed. It feels like cream on your tongue, but its sweetness is more subdued. Its less intense. And then you have the taste of fulinoe tea.
Svena nodded her head fiercely. This is perfect after the hearty dishes we ate before. A great palette cleanser to soothe your taste buds. Lady Hestia, this would be great to sell even outside the restaurant!
I smiled at their comnts. Coffee was impossible for us to get right now, as we didnt even know if it existed in this world. However, what did exist was a coffee-tasting tea leaf in the form of fulinoe leaves. It was perfect, and I wondered if Tatsuya would like it once he cos back from work today.
Oh! However, on the other side, Ivy the chef squinted her eyes. The wine taste might be a bit too intense with this pastry, Lady Hestia. Oh, Im sorry!
I was surprised. I didnt like wine that much, but I made sure to taste test it before I served it and thought it was edible. I thought I put too little in it. Still, I was glad to hear the chefs werent too shy to give out proper criticism if they didnt like sothing. This whole day managed to make them act more relaxed, I believe.
Still, I didnt want to shut her up. However, as I was about to tell her it was alright to speak her mind out, Ademnis spoke up in my defense.
Ivy, is sothing wrong with your taste buds? In fact, these bread might have too little wine in them. If you were to add a bit more wine in them, it would perfectly balance out the sweet honey inside it. This would be perfect for anybody without a sweet tooth.
Nghhh I just dont like alcohol in general The young woman admitted, causing to feel like I had a kindred spirit in her.
In the end, this food tasting session has been a major success. With the four chefs, the one dishwasher, and Priscilla, Tamae decided it was ti for the chefs to train with the dishes, telling them they will be serving food to Alia, Ellaine, , and the rest of Aurora.
And all of that, without my help. Tamae smiled but her announcent that she wouldnt help caused the chefs to beco nervous as they looked between Alia and . I guess they were worried they wouldnt be able to make sothing good for the nobles in our midst.
Good job, Hestia! Priscilla told as we finally were done.
You too, Priscilla. Good luck with the rest of the training! I told them, and she told she would do her best, of course.
Leaving the kitchen so the chefs could focus, Svena led Alia, Josine, the waiters and waitress, and I outside to the front of the restaurant the tables. There we saw Haati and Lorena enjoying the leftovers we made.
Those two have been decorating the eatery part of the subspace up until now. After they were finished, they ca to the restaurant but decided against joining in with the others as they were slightly nervous around nobles. When they saw us enter, they imdiately cleaned themselves and stood up, even bowing as they greeted us.
Dont worry about it, you two. Hehe I laughed nervously as I cald them down before asking how the food was.
Amazing! Brilliant! I-I never thought I would ever be able to taste sothing this good! Lorena expressed, having never visited our street eatery. She also only moved to her new apartnt next to Farrons ho today, so I could guess she must have been famished.
I already have been able to eat Lady Tamaes food yesterday and at the eatery, but it never gets old. Its really good. Like, heavenly. So this is what noble food tastes like! Haatis ears wiggled around like Rajahs whenever he was excited.
Miss Svena, who are these two? one of the waiters asked.
These will be Lady Tamaes waitresses for her eatery. They are here today to train and practice being waiters before the eatery opens up soon. As such, they are fellow staff mbers, so please be polite. Svena eyed one or two distrustful waiters and waitresses. I wondered if one of them was a low noble or not.
Regardless, I could rely on Svena and Josine to help out Haati and Lorena. Haati already had experience as a waitress, so she shouldnt be in trouble, but she was there to help our Lorena. If they were to work together later on, they had to get to know each other.
Good luck, you two! I told the two, prompting them to say they will make sure to repay in full. I smiled and as I was about to leave with Alia, Svena ca close to my ears and whispered sothing to .
I heard Haati received [Hestias Retainer] as a title. Lady Hestia, I will make sure to make my vow, later on, so please forgive for forgetting it.
Cool.
Well, that happened.
Regardless, Alia and I left the restaurant behind for them to deal with while we entered the community room where the forr smiled at .
How many desserts and pastries did you two plan out?
I winked. Enough~
Suffice to say, dinner was once again good, especially for Alia and the Sarlenzia company.
[Human, Svena], [Human, Lorena], [Dragonewt, Priscilla Nordor] have received the title [Hestias Retainer]
Well, that happened.
Three days later, we invited all seven dukes as well as King Drangleic to co to visit and test out the restaurants team with their family. We had to stress test everything, and since they were also planning to visit during the official opening, I believed letting them know what we serve in advance would be great for them.
While the team did beco nervous to the point the dishes ca out a bit too slowly, naturally since these were the seven dukes and their king, it still went down well with Tamae and Svena coordinating everything. We also brought in the others from Aurora to act like new custors, giving the waiters and waitresses even more practice.
It went well, and that was enough for Tamae to shine like a beacon for the next few days. After all, with a successful test service, it gave us the confidence to begin promoting the restaurant and the new opening of the Sarlenzia company as the new pastries were being made.
While Saori did bring in so news on her side about the alchemy shop and the cartels, she told I didnt have to worry about it for now. I should focus on gaining the political support of Estralia for Artorias, as I was best suited for that job. Once they had more conclusive answers, they would tell them in heartbeat and we could act on them.
As such, with our restaurant and the Sarlenzia company branch planning to open in five days, I decided it was high ti to et up with the rchant guild of Gleisvale. At the sa ti when I scheduled a ti, the secretary told one of the senators wished to talk to before then.
Seeing the na of the person, I rembered I had received an invitation from the sa person a few days ago. A representative was sent to , but I didnt answer back.
Well, might as well, I thought and told the secretary, who quickly ordered a carriage for to take to her. Once I was there at her mansion, a foxian man equipped in tal armor appeared before .
Welco, Lady Hestia. We have been awaiting you.
My guard was instantly raised. For so reason, this man gave the chills as I stared into his almost lifeless eyes.
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