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Thursday 22 October 2009 8:00 pm  |  Updated:  Friday 31 May 2019 6:40 pm

BILL OF THE YEAR

By: admindrupal

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THE City may have been suffering this year, but if our popular Bill of the Week feature is anything to go by, opulence is certainly not dead.

This little beauty – racked up in the depths of the gloom in early February – was the result of four businessmen taking their wives out for a £13,011.18 lunch at the Buddha Bar, complete with a bottle of Chateau Cheval Blanc Premier Grand Cru Classic Saint Emillion for an eye-watering £8,500.

Other bill highlights this year have included a £7,700 tab between four people at a Mayfair bar – exclusively for champagne and paid up before 5pm on a Thursday evening – and a breakfast meeting which came to over £4,000.

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