Blogging the PDR (Private Dining Room) by Jessica Prince, Dahlia Lounge
What an arty shot….. this photo was not staged.
This is the actual work space of the Dahlia Lounge Private Dining coordinator, taken during one of the incredibly brief breaks I take every day just to eat enough coconut cream pie bites to keep me from fainting! If you close your eyes and put your hands on the screen, you can almost feel the industriousness, the careful attention to every detail, the mild obsessive-compulsion that make the Dahlia’s private dining experience the best in Seattle.
You may wonder how we do it. Wonder no more! Secrets of private dining success:
1. Enough neon colored post-its to create a neon square large enough to see from outer space.
2. Four different colors of dry erase markers, not five, not three, but four. We have a system here!
3. Enough pencils with good erasers to build a miniature log cabin that would fit a hamster and his water bottle.
4. A very, very hard wooden chair, creaky is good, a nail or two sticking out is better.
5. Warm mood lighting, even in the daytime.
6. A 1952 high school chemistry teacher’s desk, complete with burn-proof top. You just never know when that’s gonna be the difference between life and death, up here where the action is, where the sparks fly, where by the intoxicating fumes of the laminating machine, the unseen heroes toil…. I need to get back to work, but before I do, here’s my advice:
Book the Dahlia Lounge Private Dining Room for an amazing “Boarding House Brunch” on Saturdays and Sundays. The menu is new, it’s rockin’, and I swear my mouth waters every time I look at it.
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