The call for returning to lunchtime chatter that fuels the City and a new London restaurant flexing invitation incentives:

Just as important is the menu, on which top billing goes to a two-sip martini. The £5-a-glass snifter is an out-of-office message, explains Marceline’s operations director Liam Nelson. It’s a signal of hospitality, a loss leader, a statement of intent. It says: you’re safe with us — let’s get just a little bit drunk.

Yes please.