The meal that cost £44,007 at a London restaurant could have been either a celebration or a wake
Six men spent £44,007 on alcohol in a London restaurant last week. The £7 bought two bottles of beer; the rest bought five bottles of wine, including a 1947 Chateau Petrus costing £12,300. Was it a last supper, a kind of wake for the securities industry ' the most likely origin of the credit card that absorbed the expense ' where stock and bond trading profits are melting and legions of bankers are being fired? Or is it a vote of confidence in the outlook, suggesting that the glass isn't just half full, it's brimming with Chateau d'Yquem circa 1900 at £9,200 a bottle ' the same wine...
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