MGC food

Hungry in MGC, where ya eating?

>Rival udon shops run by tanuki and kitsune. Their next door to each other and their customers tend to be very loyal, loud, and opinionated. Rumor has it the owners are actually very good friends and play up the rivalry to drum up sales. The tanuki special is udon topped with tempura flakes and fried urchin, the kitsune special has fried tofu and crispy salted chicken skin.

>Orc-run pizza place. Their policy is 'overwhelming service and aggressive hospitality', a strategy adapted from ancient Orc war techniques. When one doesn't work? Send more! Their delivery girls work in groups of three. You don't get a waitress for your table, you get a warband. Known for huge portion sizes and decadent toppings. Their best-seller is an oxtail pizza with a sauce made out of beef drippings.

>Scylla-run food carts. There's a chain that's everywhere in MGC. A single scylla or kraken can cook, serve, take orders, and count out change all at the same time. Mostly Japanese/Japanese fusion street food. The Scylla Special is fresh takoyaki with spicy mayo and a cocktail of your choice, guaranteed ready in three minutes.

>Numerous Succubus cafes. They often advertise themselves in a way that downplays the 'Succubus' part, but you'll know as soon as you sit down and your order arrives before you've even thought about what you wanted. Always impeccable atmosphere except for the red eyes staring from the kitchen, glowing faintly even in the cheery lighting. These places pop up and disappear frequently for some reason.

>Kanabo Burger. An Oni-owned burger restaurant known for huge portions, a boozy list of drinks including a '15% ABV milkshake', and flexible customization options. Any beef patty can be replaced with a chicken cutlet, pork cutlet, or fish fillet; they have pretzel buns, sesame buns, and grilled ricecake 'buns'; and the topping menu alone reads like it's a mile long. Everyone knows if you've got an oni burger because of the tiger-print design on the their takeout bags. Most employees are loud, boisterous, and flirty reds but the management and chef work is done by serious blues so the food quality/service is actually pretty great.

>Mysterious old-fashioned ramen cart pulled and managed by a single Kitsune woman. She's old enough for a fox to have 'wisdom wrinkles' appearing at the corners of her eyes and mouth but she's only got a single tail. You've never seen her out earlier than midnight and you’ve never seen a single other customer visit her. She has salt or miso ramen, both prepared simply but carefully. Prone to both long bouts of gentle conversation and long periods of comfortable silence.

>HOARD Bowls, a Dragon-run beef bowl chain with only several locations. They have two items: the beef bowl and the beef bowl with cheese. They come in small, medium, large, extra-large, and HOARD sizes. You'd think they wouldn't last with such a limited menu but the locations are extremely popular. They value the dragon philosophy of 'strength through simplicity’. By limiting the menu and using only the freshest, highest-quality ingredients they've basically made what many consider to be the perfect beef bowl. Management/staff tend to be strict and uppity. You will be asked to leave if you try to customize your order.

>The Kiki Café, small restaurant operated by single kikimora looking to help polish their skills. A massive menu of western food, impeccable service, and crystal-clean atmosphere awaits. The lines to get in tend to be massive. The café has had the same management/kitchen since opening but their kikimora servers have a very high turnover (see: marriage) rate. The owners see this as the opposite of a problem. Try the charlotte malakoff au chocolate, it's so good it's ended international incidents.

>Something Circle Pizza is a delivery-only pizza restaurant run by Demons. Other pizzerias in MGC tend to try and impress with ridiculous specialty pies and huge portion sizes, but the pizza from Something Circle is a little more...'plain'. They focus on making high-quality pizzas with thoughtfully balanced ratios of toppings to cheese to sauce to crust instead of trying to make some kind of pizza no one's had before (they also have pastas, hoagies, soups, and desserts). They have only a single location in the Underworld and yet they're one of the most popular pizza places in MGC for one reason: their unparalleled delivery service. Their delivery process uses the same system of magic gateways and mana sources that fuel the infernal contracts the Demons use to obtain husbands. Ordering from Something Circle is essentially signing a small-scale contract that promises delicious food in exchange for currency. Essentially, there IS NO delivery time. Your order arrives via magic circle literally as soon as it's done. The order is still accompanied by a delivery Demon to finalize the contract and ensure the customer is satisfied. The contracts to order
food are ridiculously long and filled with legal jargon that mostly means nothing, just filler words. Customers are encouraged to read their contracts thoroughly because they like to sneak in special deals that you can only get if you notice them (ex. 'Signer of the contract and bearer of the seal has the right to request one free order of garlic sticks' in very fine print). There are rumors of'disappearing regulars' and 'husband traps' contained within their contracts but the restaurant denies this.

>GremLOL Fried Rice and Ramen is a trendy, experimental 'All Culture Fusion' restaurant owned and operated by a head chef gremlin. She's a former employee of a 'flavor lab' working for a major snack food company and decided to use her talents to establish her own eatery instead of slaving away on yet another flavor of potato chip dust. The gremlin chef eschews tradition and goes full-on experimental with her dishes. The ramen community is on mixed terms with the restaurant because while many culinary blasphemies get committed, the place also has some of the best noodles you can buy. The noodles are made secretly but rumors say there's a custom built machine that perfectly imitates the techniques of a trained noodle-making master. GremLOL noodles are springy, chewy, and soak up every flavor around them like slurpable sponges. The menu changes often but occasionally some items get so popular that customers threaten to boycott if they get taken away. Recent fan-favorites include a spicy tomato bisque ramen (which has an entire grilled cheese sandwich placed on top), a fried-fish-sandwich fried rice (with vinegar-y mayo drizzle) and the chicken parmesan takoyaki (includes no chicken).

>The Wonderful Wonderland Ice Cream Shoppe is a popular ice creamery operated by a single Cheshire. She's the only employee anyone ever sees but lines never seem to linger. It's like she can be in five different places at once and still only be noticed in just one. The owner is a shameless eccentric and customers will be subject to that eccentricity. Her shop's April Fool's jokes are legendary and they can occur on any day EXCEPT April 1st. She once became a French bakery for a day (including only speaking in French). On another day her shop just disappeared and she went around town in an ice cream truck instead. Her shop has no 'flavors', only 'colors'. You can get red, blue, green, yellow, white, pink, etc. Asking what they taste like won't help you much, even if you ask someone currently eating a scoop. If you ask someone eating a blue scoop 'What's that taste like?', you might get a response like 'Well, last time I was here it tasted like raspberry, but today it tastes like blue paint chips. Like the ones that I peeled off by dresser when I was little? Like, it doesn't taste like blue paint, it tastes like...that tingly feeling I got when I peeled the paint off? I don't know, I'm having a hard time processing it but I just keep eating.' Customers can't always get what they ask for, but she insists they'll always 'get what they want'. She'll do things like deny a pink scoop to a virgin because 'they wouldn't understand the depth of flavor', or deny black to an abyssal mamono because 'they'd understand the depth of flavor a little too well'. The legendary menu item, 'A Trip to Wonderland', can't be ordered..only offered. Urban legend tells of a depressed man who ordered 'Something to lift my spirits'. The cheshire studied the man for several minutes before smiling and preparing him a scoop with a bit of every single color. He took a single lick, smiled, walked out the door, and hasn't been seen since. Police investigation is still ongoing, but the Cheshire insists that 'It's fine, he's fine. He gets to see all kinds of colors now."

Nothing but Meat
> Any mamono (or human) who loves their barbecue, this restaurant's whole schtick is serving massive quantities of meat and nothing but meat
> Pick the type of meat, how cooked you want it (raw to charred), and what kind of sauce you want it slathered on
> No utensils, eat it with your hands/paws/claws like the Maou intended
> Very popular among orks, hellhounds, and other meat-eating mamono

The Hag Cafe:
> An American-style diner with lots of chrome surfaces, checkerboard tile floors and a plethora of hags in tight-fitting waitress uniforms
> Specializes in breakfast all day and other home cooking
> Single men eat for free and get the deluxe experience from the staff
> Staff turnover is high due to the hags getting married to their customers

The Beeg House:
> Do you like your monster girls big? No, not just big, beeg? Really beeg? The Beeg House is where you wanna go, where all the waitresses are a minimum of six and a half feet tall and oftentimes considerably taller
> Restuarant is built to an extra large scale, with ample room in all the booths for the beegest of mamono
> Portions of food are also similarly scaled
> Free uppies are offered to all human customers
> Staff turnover is also very high, due to the beeg waitresses physically carrying off customers

Le Paris Cafe
>A quiet litte corner coffee house, centered mostly on all forms of coffee but with light bites like croissants, muffins, and a few egg dishes also available
>Everything is made from scratch in the kitchen and they roast their own beans
>Staffed prmarily by French Maid style kikis, but anyone who can walk the walk and talk the talk might work there so long as they can pull off the uniform
>Loitering (and flirting with the staff) while you read the paper or some higher-minded work is encouraged
>If you hear "cyka blyat" from the kitchen don't mention it, acknowledging that is uncouth and the staff will act like you're hearing things
>There is no non-smoking section

Shack Shaker
>An ice cream joint run mostly by cows
>They sell all manner of milkshakes, ice cream, and milk-based confections
>Most of their products are made with normal cow's milk, but if you try something that tastes a little extra, be sure to let the staff know. It means one of the girls took a liking to you, she'll come out and tell you what her special touch was
>Warning, they do employ hakutaku and their explanations may get a little long though it will be interesting
>Yes, part of the special touch is always her own milk and yes, this means you have carte blanche to touch the cow

Maeve&Buster's
>I mean, they technically sell food since the barcade has deep fryers and microwave pizza, but let's not pretend the main draw isn't the gremlin-designed arcade games you can play while munching on junk food or sipping a cold one
>It's not uncommon for the staff to have greasy handprints on their butts or a different kind of grease on their thighs and faces
>Their claim to fame is laser tag with aphrodisiac lasers in a large room with lots of places to, uh, take a break from the game
>After every round players are offered a complimentary bottle of the establishment's Weaselade, a caffeinated electrolyte recovery beverage
>They do have kickass nachos too, though

It's Snow Problem!
> Restaurant dedicated to yetis, yukionna, and other cold loving mamono
> Interior is kept icy cold, non ice-mamono guests are given magical parkas to keep warm
> Serves a mixture of cold foods (ice cream, snow cones, milkshakes, etc) and hot foods (chili, hot chocolate, fajitas), the latter of which somehow never get cold.
> Has small but passionate fanbase of fire mamono who like to brave the cold, either out of love of the food, bravery or masochism

Miss Hatter's House of Sweets
> Not a restaurant, but a candy shop
> Widest variety of candy you've ever seen, ranging from contemporary sweets to Victorian era ones to mamono ones to Wonderland ones
> Also sells fudge, caramel corn, and iced cream (not ice cream, iced cream)
> Hatter who runs the place somehow knows exactly what candy best suits the customer
> Location of store tends to change from day to day