milliways_bar | Entries tagged with burton guster

It's been too long since someone's done this, and the feel of the bar is one in need of it. Between the anxiousness for spring to finally get here and the comedic pitfalls of April Fool's, everyone's in need of a little something. It is just that something which inspired Beauford to sneak into the kitchens early this morning to get to work.

Soon enough there's smells coming from the kitchen doors

DOUBLE HAPPY HOUR

Dinner Specials
Caramel BBQ pulled pork sammich with baked spice sweet potato fries and steamed broccoli

Oven-roasted garlic chicken and miso asparagus over with buttered rice

Homemade Mac and Cheese with your choice of either tuna or veggies

Chicken dumpling soup with tomato bread

Tomato soup with grilled cheese sammich

Chocolate peanutbutter Cupcakes $1 each

Drink Specials
Ruby Relaxer
Down Home Punch
Golden Comfort
Creamy Comfort
Comforting Tiger
Maria's Delight

Half off All N/A Drinks on Tap

Dinner is on, and everybody needs a little good down home cooking. Somehow he arranged for something to be playing on the speaker system overhead, but as far as musical tastes GO...Tracy Chapman ain't that bad.

Current Music: Tracy Chapman - Telling Stories

thesupersmeller

With Blackapella(not Quarter Black) reunited, Gus was running on high excitement...

Until Deacon wound up with a bullet in him and Shawn ended up in the hospital with a ruptured appendix. At least with Gus (and Tony and Drake), Juliet and Lassie on the case they've already got a lead.

They're leaving the hospital to check out the tattoo parlor, Shawn in hand thanks to Gus' new Ipad, when they step through the double doors and straight into the Bar.

At least Gus and Shawn do, only to see Juliet already saddled up behind the bar.

"We don't have time for this!" Gus sighs, shaking his head as he turns to open the door behind them - finding it locked.

"Well... someone thinks we need a break..." Juliet shrugs, sliding a napkin across the bar with all three of their names on it. "About time you got here.

"Oh! Me! Me! I do! I want to tend bar before I die, Gus!"

"You're not dying. You had your appendix out."

There's already a specials list in a frame ringed with green pineapples, so he figures he may as well take a break from certain death.

Specials:

Teal Squeal
(Vodka, Blue Curacao, ice, pineapple)

Coffee Nudge
(Dark creme de cacao, coffee liqueur, brandy, coffee, whipped cream topping)

Virgin Sex on the Beach
(Orange juice, cranberry juice, peach nectar, grenadine and a pineapple wedge)

Afterglow
(Grenadine, orange juice, pineapple juice)

[ooc: Three pups, three muns, for the price of one! Feel free to tag one or all of us. Tending till it drops!]

craftylildoodlepumpkin

Goin' to the country
Gonna eat a lotta peaches...

hey35andholding

When the door catches Clementine, she actually freezes in her tracks in surprise - and juggles the basket of laundry she'd been carrying into a Suds and Fold back in Reno.

She shrugs and heads over to the bar, prepared to order something so cold it'll make her forget what August in Reno feels like. But there's a napkin and ugh...no arguements.

~SPECIALS:

Washington Square
Royal Laundry
Arctic Mouthwash

Peppermint Candy, soda, and beer on-tap, 20% off if you're ordering a craft brew from Reno Nevada

Fifty percent off your drink if you're willing to fluff and fold

She lips the top off of her bottle of cola and leans back against the bar. Within minutes you can find her eyeing the pile of laundry as if it's a mountain she must climb. Commiseration or mockery are equally welcome.

[OOC: celebrating the long-awaited conclusion of my home remodel! Tags are happening allll freaking night, and I'm cleaning out my backlog, and all slowtimes will be far less slow from now on.]

thesupersmeller

It's half past noon when Gus finally wakes up in a tequila and taco scented sweat after his night out with Shawn. If the pictures on his phone and the ones Shawn sent him... and the notes he wrote himself... are any indication he had a reasonable but safe evening considering the sheer amount of margarita mix he consumed - he'd have to thank Shawn for making sure that he not only made it home but into his jammies with a bottled water and aspirin on the nightstand and his phone on the charger.

After said water and aspirin, a long shower, and then a fresh change of clothes, when he opens the front door to go find some breakfast (lunch?) he doesn't have to cook the apartment door opens right up to Milliways.

Well, there's worse places to have lunch.

Hungover, he slumps down in a booth and considers what he'd like to try and keep down.

[ooc: And have a hungover Gus! Active tagging for the next several hours and then onto slows.]

thesupersmeller

[OOM: It's been a rough couple months, but if Gus has learned anything from his short stint as a puppy it's that sometimes he just needs his friend. Call it co-dependent, but nobody gets him like Shawn does. Still, when they go out - it's not a date... it's margaritas, karaoke and an all you can eat taco bar.]

If you've got troubles, I've got 'em too
There isn't anything I wouldn't do for you
We stick together and can see it through
Cause you've got a friend in me
You've got a friend in me

craftylildoodlepumpkin

In which Juliet takes home a puppy and a kitten and heads out for waffles the next morning with her boyfriend and his best friend.

Cubefall. It's magic

[OOC: backdated alll the way back to the night after Cubefall's conclusion, and utterly flufftastic.]

thesupersmeller

[OOM: Shortly after sending a message to The Devil that he can't see her any more, Gus gets surprised with a blind date arranged by Shawn & Juliet. Thankfully, Nancy's a really nice girl... even if it's nothing like his normal dates. Hey, his usual dates don't make it past dinner and the ones that do usually end up being worse than not having a date at all.

I'm reflecting all my childhood dreams
My ideas of love weren't as foolish as they seemed
If I don't start looking now, I'll be left behind
And a good heart, these days, it's hard to find ]

basic_powers

So, not that long ago someone hosted a dual food and booze happy hour. He made a nice enough amount of money, that his tab and someone else's has diminished quite a bit. Even the leftovers kept selling!

Tonight he's having himself a bowl of his special Green Dragon Chili, a beer and a little time to start plotting out his next big menu. He's not about to apologize for the smell, after all, the chili is best when it's aged a while and Beauford likes it this hot.

basic_powers

It's at a hasty scurry that Beauford exits the kitchen, still wiping off his hands on his apron before grabbing the chalk for the specials board. He didn't mean to start lunch so late, but the chili took a little more trouble than he'd been expecting. With great haste and a surprisingly neat script he's writing out the specials on both the dinner and drink's board.

WELCOME TO THE LATE LUNCH HAPPY HOUR
Today's Specials
Meals
Summer Veggie Tempura with cool udon noodle soup
Seared Tuna salad with champagne dressing
Hearty Cheddar Chowder with or without ham upon request
Pork stew with grilled veggies
Returning by Popular Choice!
Smoked Caramel Onion Barbeque Porkribs with Sweet Potato Steakfries, served with wedges of lime
Godzilla Chili:
Green tomato and spinach soup base with alligator steak chunks, naga chili pepper, tomatillos and sweet corn, served with a dollop of lime cream
Chipolte Mac and Cheese

DRINKS
Revenant: Espresso with anise liqour and a swirl of cold heavy cream
Moon shadow: Dark berry soda with Grey Goose Pear Vodka and a scoop of vanilla Ice cream
Masked Vigilante: Spicy Ginger Beer with Sake
Watermelon Mojito
Lemon Lavender Cheesecake Martini
Herb de Creme Martini
-All Cider, Pale Ales, Peri and red house wine 30% off-

Your cook and bartender is: Beauford Tannen!

With that done he's pulling off the apron and washing up his hands for a third time to start serving. Have at the very rushed cook!

(OOC: I accept all forms of slowtimes and love, and like all bartending, feel free to threadhop!)

thesupersmeller

[mini-oom: Before heading back to the bar to reflect and maybe catch a drink, Gus hangs a very special picture.]

craftylildoodlepumpkin

Juliet's actually prepared to offer herself up to the bartending Gods by the time she opens the door and enters Milliways. She and Shawn have been using Milliways as something of a hideaway, and she knows her tab's ballooned to elephantine proportions because of it.

Which is why she's talking to the bar, still wearing her work clothes. "Um, I was wondering..." she raises an eyebrow when the napkin is presented to her. Gus told her about this ritual, and she knows what to do: Soon the following's written on the board behind her head:

SPECIALS:

Gunfire
Jewel of the Nile
Coffee Grinder

Espresso 50% off

Soda, Beer and iced cocoa 20% off.

Sometimes talking to sentient objects pays off.

[OOC: Open 'til Juliet's next post! I'm hitting back all of my slows after I type this, and will be in crackchat in about a half-hour; slows after and before then, please!]

sunbaked_baker

The clouds that hang heavy and ponderous over Milliways this morning suggest that this would be a good day to stay indoors. The threat of rain, however, doesn't stop Rae from taking her dawn run around the lake, even if dawn is nothing more than an incremental brightening of the chilly gloom.

Best to get the run in early, anyway, while the various large bowls of dough rise in the warmth of the kitchen. Later, she'll be in the kitchen, turning the fragrant, yeasty dough into cinnamon rolls and loaves of bread.

(ooc: Feel free to catch her, outside or in. Mun will be around all day. :D)

Current Mood: awake

thesupersmeller

Before Juliet's birthday party, Gus makes his way back to Milliways. Things have been relatively quiet, which usually means that bills are going to be paid late and Shawn's been slacking on drumming up business while he's working his day job romancing doctors and getting them to try Central Coast Pharmaceuticals latest foot fungus cream.

It's a glamorous life. Enough to make him really miss being a puppy - at least then he got snuggles at the end of the day.

And, it's given him plenty of time to make what may be either a big mistake or the best decision he's ever made. With a heavy sigh, he sits at the bar and reads over his short note to her one last time:

Lucifer -

It's been a lot of fun seeing you these last few times, but I can't keep doing this. It's just... too much for me. I'm not that guy - I'm just a regular person who wants a regular girlfriend to take to the movies and have dinner with. What we have is just... all wrong. It feels right at the time, but I can't be like that. I'm a good man, and I can't keep spending the day after in confession and paying penance for my sins.
Thank you, for understanding.

Gus

Finally, he folds it half and then in half again and writes her name on the outside in his perfect penmanship and then sets it on the bar - watching it disappear before ordering his drink.

"Miss Bar, I need a really big pineapple daiquiri, double rum." He sighs again, "And a couple of KitKat bars, please."

[ooc: I give you one Gus, feel free to bother.]

thesupersmeller

[oom: The first time he danced with the devil, he was weak and nobody could blame him - the second time he has a choice... a choice that could get him in a whole lot of trouble if certain people found out he was meeting with her again.

Nobody has to know. Nobody ever has to know how far he's fallen off the path of a good and righteous man.]

[ooc: MAJORLY Milli-timed, all the way back to a bit BEFORE he did his first bartending shift and had a heart to heart with Demeter. OOM is rated Mature for sexual themes.]

basic_powers

It's nearly time, do you know where your happy hour tender is? Well, to be fair, neither does the guy inside of the kitchens tonight. Which is why Beauford leans out to check, he's got a napkin waiting for him on the bar.

"...sure, I can pick up a shift.."

With that the napkin disappears.

"...oh, you mean tonight." He's just going to pull off the grungy kitchen apron and reach over to write on the specials board for tonight with a chalk marker.

Tonight's Happy Hour Specials
Banana Daquari
Snocone Martini
Lemon Lavender Cheesecake Martini
1/2 off all Cider and Wines

Dinner Specials
Chipolte Mac n Cheese
Smoked Caramel Onion Barbeque Ribs with sweet potato steak fries
French Onion Soup with summer berry salad

"Come an get it!"

wheatencrown

OOM: Some days we all need a little weeding and tending before we can flourish again.

(OOC: Warning for fade to black sex and discussion of sex.)

psyched_you_out

[OOM: It's someone's special day.]

Cake has been eaten, presents have been opened, friends have given well-wishes, and you'd think the party was just about complete...

But the celebration isn't over yet.

"Shawn, why do I have to close my eyes again?"

"Just humor me."

She does, long enough for him to lead her through the door into the bar, which has been temporarily bedecked by one pink party-loving pony.

"See, I told you there'd be ponies."

Current Mood: bouncy

thesupersmeller

It's been a long day, hell... a long week... a long life for Burton Guster. When he comes through the door, he's even more reserved than usual. Contemplative, even quiet.

"Cheeseburger and a large glass of milk, please?" He asks, sitting at the bar a long moment before noticing the terminal - already oblivious to the scattered Lego thanks to not-too-long-ago experiment in lightsaber building. If he'd have listened to Gus' suggestion phasers would have totally worked better. "What's this?"

He squints at the terminal and pushes a button, reading through the information until the choices come up.

A black leopard? Pretty sweet, powerful, graceful, sexy...

And if he was gonna be a robot, well... that would be pretty cool. He can think of a couple people he'd like to exterminate.

Being a female version of himself? It's confusing enough to try and meet women... he's not about to try being one.

About to give up, he hits the last choice... and, well... even Gus is not immune to the opportunity to be absolutely adorable.

He pushes the button and then picks up his burger and takes a bite. These things take time, right?

Until as the warm taste of a perfect meat and dripping cheese crosses an unfamiliar... muzzle? Gus looks side to side and then down where sure enough he's now standing on the stool with soft black paws holding him up on the bar with his nose buried in cheeseburger.

There are worse ways to spend the day.

[ooc: Puppy!Gus just wants love and affection... and cheeseburger!]

balancingminds

In an amount of time that Charles is trying to not think too hard about, he's going to have to hand in and present his thesis. He knows that all of his work is solid but he would still like it to be over. Work has always been the way he handles nervousness, so he's been going between the library and the flat as he makes certain everything is in order. This means he hasn't seen as much of Raven as he'd like, but he'll find time soon.

There hasn't been quite as much time to keep his thoughts as calm as he'd like and Milliways is useful for that. Here he can work and amidst the chatter of quite different minds, sort out what he needs to focus one. Thus he's taken over a table with his his editing work along with a pot of tea and the remains of a sandwich.

Tiny tag: Charles Xavier, Red Riding Hood
OOC: Charles is not actively listening to the minds around him. He's basically letting the sounds of the Bar in terms of thoughts and conversation be his background noise. In your tag, please give a sense of your character's thoughts, but he won't be actively concentrating on listening until a thread has begun.
Warning for slight adult themes near the end of the Iris' thread.

thesupersmeller

When Gus slips into the bar, alone again, he's in search of a drink after a particularly long afternoon. When he casually asks the bar for a chocolate martini, it comes with a punch bowl full of fun size bags of M&Ms and a sign:

Specials (virgin or slutty) -

* Pineapple Daiquiri
* Mudslide
* Grasshopper

Candy is FREE

He rolls his eyes, he knew his day would come... at least it's a chance to maybe meet someone new. Smiling, he takes his drink and the first packet of chocolate candies behind the bar for a turn.

[ooc: Mun is now on slowtimes, mobile tagging off and on the rest of the day. <3]

[tiny tags: Red Riding Hood (OUaT)]

chief_mom

It's been a very long, hassle-filled day. Chief is largely a job of knocking down problems, big and small. Today, it was all about problems that were just petty. And there's no Henry out in the bullpen, no glimpses to give her a little sense of calm for reasons she wouldn't have been able to explain before last night. It's just not been her day.

So she slips out, tells the rookie on desk duty that she's going to find some lunch, and at the steps, makes a quick decision. Not out into the sunshine, but down to the evidence room and through the door, and back to Milliways.

The lurking concept of time in the real world waiting for her to come back is just a little too great a temptation today.

She steps up to the bar, gets herself a coffee, and goes to find herself a seat at a table where she can put up her feet and just have a break from it all.

[OOC: Plot is lurking, but open.]

thesupersmeller

After a short stop at the bar, Gus pushes up from his stool with one chocolate martini in him and another in his hand. He's still not really got any perspective on what happened... and he's pretty sure he won't ever... but at least he can keep his eyes open for new friends.

And maybe an interesting lady. Not that he's looking for a specific devilish lady that shall remain nameless... because he's totally not. (~~Except that he sort of is~~)

Gus pops back his shoulders and sips at his drink, scanning the tables and booths while leaned against the jukebox.

[ooc: Open to all, as always.]

thesupersmeller

[oom: After a night with the Devil, Gus has some confessing to do... at church, and to his best friend.]

callipygos

Who is that floating into the bar in a tiny wrap dress and gladiator sandals? (Gladiator as in these guys, of course, not these. She's a lover not a fighter.)

She's not just in the bar, in fact: She's behind the bar.

SATURDAY SPECIALS

kir royale - champagne, creme de cassis
chocolate martini - godiva chocolate liqueur, creme de cacao, vodka, cream
surprise me - i'll tell you after you taste it

One love goddess, at your service.

[ooc: ~~open until i say otherwise! <3!~~ Awake but doing some weekend work, so apologies for slow! I'm going to say this post is now closed to new tags, sorry sorry.]