Silver Dragon Inn
This is the grand inn of the River Quarter, often the first place sought by new arrivals in the city. Prices are average and servings are huge. From the spicy bean recipes of the south to the seafood delicacies of the Wild Coast to the rice and vegetable concoctions made across the plains of the Flanaess, every manner of food and every means of preparation is available here.
Weapons larger than daggers must be checked at the door, together with shields. Customers wearing metal armour are not admitted. A pair of bouncers stands at the door, politely enforcing the rule.
The Silver Dragon Inn has three different restaurants on the first floor and in the cellar, specializing respectively in frying, grilling, and baking. Much of the cellar is given over to the kitchens. The second floor is a vast drinking hall, always crowded with an assortment of dwarves, halflings, ruddy barbarians, dusky sailors, nomads in furs, other nomads in turbans, even half-orcs and mercenaries from unknown distances.
The proprietor, Jasim Al-Azul, is a former mercenary himself and the son of a Tusmit silk merchant. He speaks a dozen languages fluently and rules the inn with bluff good humour. He can almost always break up a fight before it starts, generally with a round of drinks for the instigators. Like as not the would-be combatants part the inn as fast friends.
When such tactics don’t work, Jasim is swift and sure with the use of force. The two bouncers also quickly respond to disturbances, though they have been instructed not to interfere unless real trouble breaks out.
Jasim has seen some of his business drain away to the revamped Blue Dragon Inn, but he isn’t too unhappy about it as there is plenty of business for everyone. He recently hired a bard to sing three times a week in the evenings, and she has proven very popular. Nirifel Meldarin is 46 years old but looks much younger. She hails from the Gnarley Forest, from a sylvan elf clan called Meldarin, and is taking a break from wandering the Flanaess at the present time.
The upper level of the inn offers two dozen sleeping rooms, ranging from chambers with one large bed to those containing a dozen straw mats. Cost is reasonable, but not cheap.
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