Best part of the Scappi book in the original post is that he mentions what season a foodstuff is available in, so I've been keeping that in mind. XD
I know that what we consider "street food" isn't really the same thing as then, but it's a shortcut for "something this character would buy and eat on the street of this city between errands/odd jobs/reasons they're out because they rent a room where the proprieter doesn't cook for them," and as one of my betas is a foodie, I am now in the position of having to figure what that eaten thing (multiple things....) is, what the difference would be between things poorer and more well-off people are buying and eating, etc. (Given they're on the coast, a large proportion of that is going to involve fish, of course.) And how it's eaten--
Although restaurants as we know them, other than stalls or shopfronts run by guilds who prepared the meat/baked good/etc their guild had the right to prepare, are technically about 100-150 years in the future from the rough time this story is set, I have come across accounts of private groups dedicated to feasts who would rent out a hall and book a chef for a private feast several times a year, so I've, uh, extrapolated that to something like a private club where the group dedicated to feasting pays the rent on a building and retains a chef/kitchen staff and if you are part of the group you can just show up so it's in pretty much every respect like a restaurant but not a restaurant.
And the readers are going to think "That's a restaurant!" because it would be tedious to explain all that (other than dropping that it's invitation-only into the conversation), but I needed a privacy for a particular conversation to take place without it being obvious that the participants are plotting. :)
Re: street food
Best part of the Scappi book in the original post is that he mentions what season a foodstuff is available in, so I've been keeping that in mind. XD
I know that what we consider "street food" isn't really the same thing as then, but it's a shortcut for "something this character would buy and eat on the street of this city between errands/odd jobs/reasons they're out because they rent a room where the proprieter doesn't cook for them," and as one of my betas is a foodie, I am now in the position of having to figure what that eaten thing (multiple things....) is, what the difference would be between things poorer and more well-off people are buying and eating, etc. (Given they're on the coast, a large proportion of that is going to involve fish, of course.) And how it's eaten--
Although restaurants as we know them, other than stalls or shopfronts run by guilds who prepared the meat/baked good/etc their guild had the right to prepare, are technically about 100-150 years in the future from the rough time this story is set, I have come across accounts of private groups dedicated to feasts who would rent out a hall and book a chef for a private feast several times a year, so I've, uh, extrapolated that to something like a private club where the group dedicated to feasting pays the rent on a building and retains a chef/kitchen staff and if you are part of the group you can just show up so it's in pretty much every respect like a restaurant but not a restaurant.
And the readers are going to think "That's a restaurant!" because it would be tedious to explain all that (other than dropping that it's invitation-only into the conversation), but I needed a privacy for a particular conversation to take place without it being obvious that the participants are
plotting. :)