(What colour) Should I paint my bar?

I built a collapsable rollable neighbourhood bar / dining room table, with flags on the front, and two countertops, which are both currently white, painted in about 6 layers of basic emulsion on cheap cheap fibreboard kinda material. Should I:

1. Paint both white surfaces in a deep wood colour so it looks like a teak bar?

2. Paint the top one (main one for drinkers) deep wood, and keep the bottom one (hidden one for bartender) white, so it's easier to see things?

3. Epoxy them with a number of very thin coats of epoxy after painting & drying?

4. If you think painting either surface a nice wood colour would look good, do you think any of the stains are appropriate? Looks like I have 3 x redwood, and polyurethane, linseed oil, and the aforementioned epoxy. So it seems I have 3 of the same-ish (wrong) stain colour, and 3 different flavours of sealant.

5. If those aren't appropriate: based on this I think I'd want a restoration stain, hybrid (oil vs water based), so potentially this shortlist. This says dark brown reclaimed oak is the best for bar tops, so this or this are potentially good options?

6. Am I right in thinking I wouldn't need to epoxy if I used those since they're waterproof? But presumably I'd still want to in order to create the hard flat shiny surface that'll be easy to clean?

Thanks in advice for any ideas, suggestions, thoughts. Cheers!