Unlike many restaurant industry lifers, these veteran ravers are natural hosts – big on vibe, unfussy on service – yet as fastidiousness as crate-digging vinyl collectors in every detail, from the lighting to ingredients.
Virginia Woolf captured his buttoned-up fastidiousness well when she described him dressed in "a four-piece suit".
Yet that is pretty much how the West treats Kremlin-sponsored international organisations.But the big problem facing any new organisation is not Western fastidiousness but deeper conflicts of values and interests.
The fastidiousness with which people in many wealthy nations (though not, as yet, America) have reacted to genetically modified (GM) crops is in sharp contrast to the way they have been embraced in poorer parts of the world.
Scholarly fastidiousness only compounds it: the sonnets, we are warned, are experiments in literary form, not autobiographical documents; the so-called "lost years", through the sparsely recorded 1580s to 1592, are just that lost.
Indeed, the Tories are lucky to have him, considering that they have so far failed (thanks to the fastidiousness of the all-party honours-scrutiny committee) to get him the peerage he is reported to crave.
With great fastidiousness, the V&A has excluded the atrocious Austin, but reserves space for Skylon, the Festival of Britain, Basil Spence, and my old chums, the tartan-suited Hegarty and Terence Conran, who so very successfully sold furniture to the sort of people who had to buy their own.
Marnier's academic fastidiousness makes the first third pretty heavy going.
His own fastidiousness yields further comic riches, and cultural differences are another rich seam for a writer who grew up in North Carolina, left the US for northern France, and has now settled in West Sussex, where he made news a couple of years ago because of his dedication to clearing local lanes of litter (hence the Ramblings programme), and had a bin lorry named in his honour.
When push comes to shove we don't have a lot of fastidiousness: we'll eat anything as long as there's ketchup.
Von Bismarck compared Wal-Mart's fastidiousness about pricing with "the company's inattention to the legality of its raw materials," and noted that "Wal-Mart's customers currently risk financing criminal timber syndicates".
