Earlier this week there was a Royal Banquet at Buckingham Palace for the Emir of Qatar. It was the last such Banquet there for a couple of years as the building is being refurbished at public expense.
Present aside from the Emir were David and Victoria Beckham, Kemi Badenoch, Keir Starmer and others wearing appropriate dinner dress.
The BBC has revealed what was on the menu which suggests that there werent too many vegetarians and vegans and nobody at all that uses a food bank. A very upper class sort of occasion?
On the menu was a tartlet of Cornish lobster and quails eggs for a starter; with pheasant wrapped in Savoy cabbage, roasted celeriac puree and potato gratin with cheese from Suffolk, truffle sauce and winter vegetables as a main course; followed by an iced bombe with organic Samoan vanilla ice cream and a Balmoral plum sorbet.
Each guest had a setting of five different glasses – and for those wanting an alcoholic drink, the wine list included Chapel Down Grand Reserve 2018, Puligny-Montrachet Les Nosroyes, Domaine Genot-Boulanger 2019, Chateau Lynch-Bages, Pauillac 2000 and a Chateau La Tour Blanche.
BBC
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