The Italian man at the table beside us has just ordered a bottle of Dom Perignon champagne.
His leggy date isn’t the slightest bit impressed as she fidgets with a designer bag and adjusts one of several sparkling bangles on her wrist. She’s bored.
‘Could I look at the wine list?’ I ask. And there it is: Dom Perignon at £280 a bottle. Nothing odd about that, perhaps, in this part of town, but then after a couple of sips the man orders a bottle of white Burgundy for around the same price.
My wife and I reckon his bill for dinner alone will come to around £900.
'A glossy sheen to everything': A suite at the Bulgari Hotel in Knightsbridge, London, which is the most expensive place to stay in Britain at a minimum of £850 per night
