Read on Twitter
I have an imaginary seasonal restaurant called #Toksvigs, and I need your help to imagine it for Spring 2020. This is a thread, a collective imagining game about food & joy, esp for those stuck inside a lot during Spring. Please tag #Toksvigs - don't forget the S on the end. 1/
Our Spring menu is light, fresh & bright: tasting plates, finger food, chopstick bite, little light pancakes, crisp veg & salad, fresh and light fish, seafood, sushi, little tasty bites of lighter meats like chicken, and proteins like nuts and tofu. #Toksvigs 2/
Sweet, fresh, flowery desserts are usually on offer, along with white chocolate confectionery, tiny puff pastries, tart-fruity sorbets. There are light and flowery cordials and teas, fresh and crisp wines, and light refillable beers & ciders. #Toksvigs 3/
The day has five smaller mealtimes: fast-breaking 5am-11am. Mid-morning boost 10:30am-midday. Lunch midday to 2pm, mid-afternoon boost 2pm-4pm. Dinner is a choice of three sittings: early dinner 4pm-6:30pm; evening dinner 6:30pm-9pm; late dinner 9pm-midnight. #Toksvigs 4/
You can also book a Grazing Day and stay with us throughout. In fact, we never close, so you're welcome to be there in peace and quiet between midnight and 5am. We'll probably offer you coffee when we open. There's wifi, of course, if want it. #Toksvigs 5/
During our Spring season, art & craft materials are usually provided in case you want a bit of creative expression while you experience the culinary delights on offer, and artists will be in residence to support you in that. There's often live music in the evening. #Toksvigs 6/
You're welcome to arrange gatherings here. Got a book group? Want to have a relaxed work meeting? You can even make some rehearsal space here, if you move a few tables out the way. This place is infinitely big - or cosy, or anything else you'd like it to be. #Toksvigs 7/
There’s an outdoor space as well, of course, and the restaurant is situated in your ideal location: snowy mountainside, steamy jungle, green green meadow, cascading waterfall, elegant garden - whatever you want to see out of the window is there. #Toksvigs 8/
Now you tell us: what is on the food menu, and the drinks menu? What kind of activities are you doing here? With whom are you meeting? What kind of music / sounds can you hear? What kind of building / space is this, and what is the Spring decor like? What’s outside? #Toksvigs 9/
If anything sprang into your mind when you were reading the description, please share it. Respond with as many perfect imagined spaces as you like, different for day or night, different for energetic or tired, different for in company or alone. Thanks for playing #Toksvigs 10/10
I try to respond to everyone, but when we’re very busy in #Toksvigs, sometimes I don’t quite manage it. But if you’d like to, you are welcome to do a bit of work here too! When replying, the rule is to say yes to everything lovely that anyone imagines - it is all real... 11/
... and they can have whatever details they desire, and whatever access they want. It helps not to be too specific in return, so their imagination can do all the work. Asking questions for more details is a really great response. Always be kind, that’s the other rule. 12/
If you play #Toksvigs, thank you so much for bringing it to life. There will be a Summer, Autumn, and Winter menu. For now, we encourage the imagining of Spring. And the washing of your hands. If you want to give back, please pay it forward however you like. 13/
It’s really important, in amongst all the other important stuff going on, that we continue to connect with each other in lovely ways too. Thanks for helping me to do that by taking a few shifts at #Toksvigs - big love to you all. 14/14
My DMs are now closed to all conversations about this. The simplest of answers is: it's intended to be spontaneous (for me too) and should be fun (for me too). If you're not enjoying playing this as a spontaneous, fun thing - then don't play it. 15/
