Restaurant Dream

This only significance of this dream is that it was fairly vivid and I remembered it well enough to write it down.

I was working in a big seafood restaurant. It was a stand-alone building in the corner of a shopping mall parking lot. The building was roughly circular with about ten identical, repeating facades. Each facade was made of vertical pilings (like old telephone poles). In the center of this wall of telephone poles there was a big aquarium, (kind of like a lobster tank) flush with the outside, recessed into the building. The pilings were of uneven height, but tending towards higher on the left hand side (the viewer's left). At the top left hand of this wall of pilings there was a white neon sign that said something like "Ivar's", but it wasn't Ivar's, it said something else. The overall color was brown, like partially weathered telephone poles.

So there are about ten of these facades covering the outer wall of this roughly circular building. In front of each facade there was a deck, like an old wooden pier. As you move to the left, each facade and accompanying deck are at a slightly higher elevation, maybe a foot or so. Between each pair of facades is a dark space. There might be an entrance there.

Inside there were a series of dining rooms (one per facade) that would each hold a few dozen people. I rushed in thinking I was late for work, but the floor was empty and the crew was just starting to set up. The crew leader said he would fix it (evidently I was late, but not seriously late, just a few minutes). There were chairs piled at the back end of the room, and there was a stage at the front end. No sign of the aquarium.

The place had been there for a while, the asphalt in the parking lot was old and worn, but still in good condition. Next to the restaurant there was a patch of woods, maybe a couple of hundred feet square. It stood between the restaurant and a big intersection.

Note: Ivar's is famous seafood restaurant/tourist trap in Seattle, on the waterfront.

Update January 2017 replaced missing picture.