Serious about meat and beer? Then this is the place for you. But keen pricing is no excuse for not getting it spot on…
Hill & Szrok Public House, 8 East Road, London N1 (020 7324 7799). Meal for two, including drinks and service: £80-£100
Charles Spence, Oxford University professor of psychology, has written extensively on the way external factors influence our enjoyment of food and drink. Serve a gin and tonic in a heavy bottomed lead-crystal tumbler and it will be thought a better drink than the same served in a plastic cup. A round piece of chocolate will taste softer and creamier than a triangular piece, despite the recipe being exactly the same. And if you play fast music at your dinner guests they will clear their plates more swiftly. Yup, we are that simple and suggestible.
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