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...The trattoria serves Italian wines and seasonal dishes such as sea bass with saffron, red peppers and basil, with much of the produce grown in the grounds of Villa Bologna....
...“And not many other places were doing pesto, because you couldn’t get basil in vast quantities.” The food was delicious, but the economic outlook was less so....
...That is why it is so important to make Nazis figures of ridicule and mockery, to revel in Basil Fawlty’s silly walks, Smith and Jones’ Nazi generals and Mitchell and Webb’s SS officers - not that fancy dress...
...The first dish is a promising broad-and-green-bean hummus, light and slightly acid, with a beetroot purée spiced with crushed hazelnuts, purple basil and sesame oil....
...Mitchells has already been rumoured to be interested in parts of Spirit, which it would buy in conjunction with Punch, but traders speculated Mitchells was actually the target....
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