Chapter 163 (1/2)

163. The Mysterious Gallery Café

The trip to anther world has been successfully completed, and today I'm visiting the Gallery café [Gold Coin] outside the business hours.

The last time was an inspection during business hours, but it's still necessary to follow up on management aspect and whether Rudina has some trouble with it.

Leaving the whole store to them and sucking up the money is a little bit problematic. I'm not a sponsor, but the owner of the store after all.

And that's why I'm here, at the Gallery Café [Gold Coin].

This time, I entered the store 40 minutes before the closing time, that is, at 19:20. I'll eat some meal and wait for the other guests to return. And, after that, the store management meeting.

I sit on a vacant counter seat, open the menu, and…

I didn't notice the last time, but the menu doesn't look [Café]-like at all.

This is [Gallery Café]. A café that doubles as a gallery.

And from what I understand, a café is a place that offers drinks and snacks, and also a place where the guests can enjoy fancy conversation.

…However, the menu of this store is leaning towards a restaurant's than a café's.

There are also some names, such as toast or pasta sounds like [Light Meal]. But, if you look at the pictures and ill.u.s.tration on the menu, the portion is a bit too big.

[The toast set] has around 7-8 slices of bread, a bowl of cereal and milk, salad with boiled eggs, and an apple and banana.

[The pasta] has the amount of 300gr of dry pasta, which is considered to be 3 servings for j.a.panese.

[The porridge] seems to be worth two normal bowls.

[The steamed potatoes] consisted of 3 big potatoes.

Café isn't the place to eat heavy meal.

It's more like, the place where the smart, cute, and fashionable girls or young OL hangs out…

And looking around the store, there's no women who enjoy coffee or juice or shortcakes, instead, there are only foul men who eat a large amount of food.

…In other words, this is not a [Café], this is just a normal eatery…

”Ah, fried rice please” (Mitsuha)

As usual, Silua approached me with a gla.s.s of water and take the order without saying anything.

”Owner, coming! One fried rice!” (Silua)