19 AUGUST 1989, Page 21

Carnivorous riposte

Sir: If people are shirt-sleeved vegetarians (Letters, 12 August), why should they go to the Mazarin?

It is not surprising that it is difficult to get a table there — the food is, in my not very humble opinion, quite excellent and not ridiculously expensive.

E. F. Proctor

Wykeham, Spalding, Lincolnshire