Not-So Final Fantasy

When Grad Daniel linked an article about the Eorzea Cafe on Facebook, it looked like something that we had to do. It's a Final Fantasy themed cafe, although specifically Final Fantasy XIV it seems. Back when it first opened, I read that you either had to book tickets online, or line up early in the morning to join the lottery and hope to get a seat. So with Grad Daniel's help (as the site is entirely in Japanese), I booked two seats (if you book online, you also get one free drink per person and a coaster). We went on a Thursday night (the 7pm session is 3 hours, rather than the usual 2 hours for all the other sessions), and the place was only half full. Granted, it's not a very big place, and probably only seats about 20 people, which would explain why they need to have a lottery for seats. I guess it has been open for a while now, so the hype has died down a bit.

They had a few computers and a PlayStation 4 set up with Final Fantasy XIV, but as our subscriptions have lapsed, we weren't able to play.

Before you enter, you are given an iPad which you can use to order from. If you squint really hard, you can almost make out the English text underneath everything, so we were partly able to work out what we were ordering. All the dishes were themed on the game.

We got the Ifrit pizza (which I think was supposed to look like Ifrit's lair from the game, that was a fun boss battle).

It wasn't that spicy, but came with a bottle of habanero sauce to add to the spice.

Then there was some other thing that we weren't sure what it was based on:

We ordered the "bomb", which amazingly was actually lit on fire.

Then there were the drinks.

Summoner.

White mage.

Astrologist.

Chocobo.

Lastly, what meal would be complete without dessert?

When you enter, you are also given a raffle ticket. I managed to win third prize in the raffle, so I got this:

The person who won first prize got this:

It was so big that she ended up cutting it up and sharing it with everyone at the cafe, which was really nice of her.

I think going to the cafe was fun, but the biggest impact it has had is that we both want to go back to playing Final Fantasy XIV now. It's a pity that we don't have as much time as we used to. :(