Hints and tips:
...Upstairs in the first-floor restaurant, late-lunchers are feasting on steak, chips and claret, warmed by a roaring wood-fired grill....
...It was a visit to Royal Ascot in June that clinched it for Bobby Flay....
...These dopes have enough money for houses and Ferraris, but lack the wherewithal or interest to buy a rug. It’s genuinely creepy....
...Ellroy volunteers this as we are finishing a meal for which he insists on paying (he ate steak while I half-guiltily consumed a glass of Cabernet Sauvignon)....
...Take Sepura’s contract to supply walkie talkies to British bobbies....
...Tourists inspect neat memorials to slain “volunteers”, and visit the Republican plot in Milltown cemetery where the hunger striker Bobby Sands and other IRA “martyrs” are buried....
...“Bobby Gillespie?” I ask. “That’s him,” says Attrill. “He’s often in here for a pot of tea and a bottle of Bollinger.”...
...For today’s lunch at Bobby Van’s, an old-fashioned steak and seafood joint that is all about men and money, it seems we will be getting Dr Jekyll....
...The hip Bobby Chinn restaurant, run by the eponymous French-trained chef and local personality, is a see-and-be-seen scene, but his food is great too....
...The staff at the guest house where he was staying on one occasion pooled all their ration points and bought Hogan a steak. He ate it but never knew what it had cost those who cooked it for him....
...Years ago in London I met a man who worked for an auction house. He had something to tell me....
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