Completed with a slice of the Hackney wild sourdough and a glass of merlot, lunch pays tribute to French Huguenots who occupied this area in the 1700s.
Ms. Nuttall loads up on office snacks and is careful to always eat a big lunch, paid for by the company.
Over the next two hours, a throng of roughly 150 diners – from office workers in suits to motorbike taxi drivers in flip flops – come for lunch, paying 30,000 VND ($1.40) per plate.
"I bumped into Charlie Ravioli," she announces at dinner (after a day when, of course, she stayed home, played, had a nap, had lunch, paid a visit to the Central Park Zoo, and then had another nap).
Included in the cost of each of the lunches, paid for by the BBC Trust as a whole, was venue hire and hospitality with attendees described as a mixture of "invited external guests and stakeholders".
His business of taking lunches, paid for by drug makers, to doctors' offices all but disappeared after the rule change, cutting his overall sales by two-thirds, Mr. Clements said.
During several road trips over the next few years they peddled their wares to every opera executive they could bribe with fancy lunches, paid for from "those dark recesses of our bank accounts that our wives never look at," as Mr. Garfein put it.
Those in the know come early evening and lunch, to pay £14.95 for three courses.
After lunch, we pay Gilbert's husband a quick visit in his office.
