Written for the watsons_woes JWP day 27 prompt: Dish of the Day. Curried Fowl? Oysters?: Focus on food in some way in your work.


"Watson! I've had a marvelous idea."

"Really." Watson surveyed the wreck of the sitting room and Holmes sprawled on the tiger fur rug.

"A restaurant that would allow a patron to eat as much as they wished of a variety of foods for a single price. A time limit may need to be instituted to prevent spendthrifts from occupying a table all day, but I think it could work. Can you imagine it?"

"No, I can't," Watson said flatly, crossing his arms as he loomed over Holmes' prone form. "What on earth did you take this time? No one would want to go to a place like that."

"Mycroft would love it," Holmes insisted.

Watson smirked, then tried to hide it. "I suppose he would."