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I've had a bottle of 1996 Dom in my cupboard for a couple of years now. Should I have it with friends for new year's, or should I store it for another couple of years and have it when I graduate?

I went to Jem&I for lunch today - very good. For starter I had a fistfull of chicken liver parfait, with toast; then I had cod and chips which was the size of a good chip shop portion, and finally Eton mess which was about as big as my head. All in all a bargain at 20 quid.

Anyone have any experience of this place? I can't find any mention of it on eG, which seems a bit odd, so I apologise if I've missed it in another topic.

I don't think that would get you anywhere as July 8th is a Sunday.

I had the lobster, which was very nice, although perhaps a little strongly flavoured, some of the actual lobster taste was drowned out. Then the beef (surf at turf at it's best here) which was wonderful, although I thought the tiny shavings of truffle were a bit pointless; they were clearly only present so 'truffle' could be included in the description, and there wasn't really enough to give any flavour. The lime parfait dessert was the highlight though and probably the best thing I've ever tasted. We had a bottle of Beau Soleil, which was a little steeply priced (of course, one expects that at a 3 star) at £72, but very nice. The waitress forgot our drinks with desserts though, which we didn't really mind because we were having such a good time, but we got those (a bottle of tokaji and some Bollinger) for free because of it which was very nice. And I had a Macallan 25 (wasn't that great to be honest - should have had the Lagavulin, or nothing) and a double espresso (the strongest espresso I've ever tasted and it kept me up half the night) to finish. Being only twenty I don't have a huge range of experience with uber-food but it ranks in my top four (along with The Fat Duck, Sushi Yasuda, New York and Sushi Kaji, Toronto). One thing that really annoys me about places like this is being charged for trivial purchases such as a cup of coffee; to be fair if I've been part of a table that's just spent £500+ on a meal, I don't think it's too unreasonable to expect to be given a cup of coffee, alas though, that never seems to happen.

This is a few weeks late, but I was there on September 5th; the night they re-opened after summer and he was there then, in a very posh but suspiciously clean chef's jacket.

I was rejected for the second year running... Maybe they don't like students.

I actually haven't eaten in hall for nearly 2 years because I thought it was dreadful. Has it improved?

As a fellow Emmanuellite, I'll use my first post to congratulate you on demonstating the true awesomeness of Emma: congratulations on demonstrating the true awesomeness of Emma.