After hearing about Podunk from a friend who billed it as ""mom friendly"", I decided to take my mother, visiting from out of state, for afternoon tea. We arrived in the late afternoon on Thursday to the small, cute establishment on E. 5th. We easily located a table in the near-empty establishment and the propietor instructed us to read the menus at the table and then return to the counter to place our order. We scoured the menu for any basic tea/scone/sandwich combo and were hard-pressed to located anything for less than $40. We finally settled on the ""Ladies Luncheon"" ($35 + $3 ice tea surcharge)... and proceeded to wait nearly 30 minutes for anything to arrive. When I went to the counter during the wait to inquire as to the whereabouts of the bathroom, the schoolmarm-esque owner replied that it was their ""achile's heel"" -- they had no toilet. I asked her if there might be a sink I could use to wash my dirty hands. She walked away and returned minutes later with a two brown paper towels: one was moist with soap, she told me; the second was drenched in water. She offered this elementary school solution to me in all seriousness, while simultaneously feigning sympathy for my predicament. I returned to my table, aghast, and waited with my mom for our tea to arrive. The owner yelled for me to pick up the heavy tray of tea & food when it was ready, and watched me to struggle to carry it across the place.
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