El mesón de la rosa y el cangrejo

El mesón de la rosa y el cangrejo (Rose and Crab Inn) was one of the nicest inns in the city of Milspar in Millisymph.
== History ==
The inn, located in the city's more well-to-do district of Montículo Perlat (Pearl Mound), opened with a magical display on New Year's Eve of 1737. It was built on land believed once owned by Mistress Perlat de puerta del mar (Pearl of Seagate) during the early years of the ancient empire of Arumelia. Perlat was said to be a human woman who served Jaibani, the Giant Crab that carries the world of Edyleine on its back. She was rewarded for her service by being changed into a crab (although many claim she could assume both forms and a third of a human woman with giant crab claws). Some of the bricks (or all) used in its construction were said to have come from her original home, and the inn is said to be her home's duplicate (the original home of Mistress Anura of Frogsea was said to have been built as a duplicate of Perlat's home).
== Description ==
The three-story inn was built primarily of pink brick. It featured 12 suites for let each with at least one large window facing front, but also had fine quarters for the owner and adequate rooms for staff. The path to the inn's double front door, which featured two pink carved rose door handles, went between two large pink crab statues and led to a fountain with pink crabs. A garden with rose bushes and other plants was located in the back. There were trees in front, and more rose bushes on the property in a garden in the back.
== Accommodations ==
The dinner menu typically included twice-baked bread, a choice of sopa de verduras (vegetable soup) or the trademark sopa de rano cangrejo (pink crab soup), and budín de pan rosa (pink bread pudding). The catch of the day and other menu items varied, although crab legs were common. (It was said that staying at the inn was one of the best ways to get the crabs). Very rare for the warm city, it also served frozen desserts including rosa helado (pink ice cream). In keeping with the pink theme, drinks served with dinner include rosé wine.
Lunch and dinner entertainment varied, but included bards, singers and musicians (who were typically paid by receiving a free meal).
The rooms were spacious and the servers were many. Accordingly, prices were quite expensive. For a meal alone, breakfast or supper were $18, and dinner (served midday) was $36. Liquor ranged from $18 a bottle and up. Full lodging, which included a luxury suite, meals for one person, a bottle of fine wine or other liquor, entertainment, and stabling one steed, was $360 per day (meals for additional people and stabling for additional steeds were extra). While the prices were quite high, the food and accommodations were actually quite comparable to more expensive establishments.
A percentage of the proceeds was donated to Milspar orphanages and hospitals that served the poor.
== Staff ==
The innkeeper was the human woman Gata Galouri, said to have been an Arumelian orphan slave owned by the Arumelian wizard Rixaurces. (While still little known, the inn was owned by Mojarósa who had her own small private suite there). The stable master was the male centaur Felipe el Centauro who was known as a fine dance teacher.
Category:Milspar
Category:Montículo Perla