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Tipping

Service with a smile David Fingleton G o to a restaurant in France — any- where from a Michelin three-starred palace in Paris to the simplest establishment in the country — and......

Drink 1

Never too early for champagne Christopher Fildes H oratio Bottomley shocked my father's landlady at Oxford. She caught him behind the door, struggling to open a bottle of......