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BILL OF THE WEEK
IT’S over to Westminster for this week’s bill, which came from a little Italian restaurant, Quirinale, tucked away beside the Institute of Economic Affairs and beloved of Parliamentary types wanting to keep a low profile.
Our five diners attacked their meal with gusto, eating beef carpaccio, bresaola, pork saltimbocca, salmon, risotto and tiramisu, and washing it all down with copious amounts of alcohol.
They drank 12 Grey Goose vodka-and-tonics and an impressive seven bottles of Italian wine (including a £99 Barolo Cannubi and two Amarone dry reds), before rounding off the evening with a further bottle of Fonseca port.
Let us just hope the feast wasn’t at the taxpayer’s expense.