Mr Ouattara is credited with curbing the corruption that prevailed under his predecessor, though many Ivorians insist shady dealings remain as prevalent as ever, if slightly better concealed.
The literary agent George Greenfield noted in his memoirs Robin's apparent affinity with the genre he did so much to boost: he "could almost have been a character out of a Graham Greene or John le Carré novel … he had that vague, slightly shambling air that concealed a sharp and incisive mind".
Frying is occasionally used to good effect: salty baccalà, with a soft, slightly sweet interior, conceals an even better mild fried ricotta, and pickled French fries, regrettably now off the menu, were a pert combination of salty and sour.
But then again, I guess a yellow puddle is slightly hard to conceal with a ohhh mannn!
People are often glimpsed though slightly open doorways or partially concealed by pillars.
This part of the building is slightly plusher – there are lights concealed in pillars and one corridor wall is an expensive-looking gold colour - but it is hardly palatial.
Only later, after years of scholarly detective work, did he decide that he had been looking at genuine art that was cleverly concealed by an ambitious and slightly frustrated animation director named Shamus Culhane.
