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I need to feed some clients at around 4-5pm. I would have already given them lunch and the meetings will run until 9.00pm and I don't want to give them dinner during the meeting.

I'd like to give them something like tea & cake - Anyone know where I can get some decent scones & cream / carrot cake sent to the DIFC?

Thanks!

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For short notice delivery what about Costas/Starbucks? They usually have cold stale carrot cakes and Costas has scones, at least the UK ones do. Is there one near your office?

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Shakespeares? More Cafe?

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Thanks - forgot all about Shakespeares. Will give it a go.

We are hoping these people give us some money - not sure an old costa cake will do it.

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But you won't feed them dinner?

In the future when you have some advance notice, Lime Tree does a corking catering menu including their cakes. That's the place to go if you're impressing UK/Euro clients who care about food quality.

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I'll get the girls on it! Will look at that.

LPM for dinner after - No dinner during the meeting.

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Alright charlie big bananas....

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Not really. I don't like the place and it's not my money, but it seems to be where we always take them.

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I've never been. It seems to be on the list of shit you 'have' to do to have officially made it in Dubai.

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I really wouldn't bother going.

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You don't like French food?

LPM is quite good. It reminds me of the "top" French restaurant in provincial cities and market towns in the UK or the better country house hotels. Reminds me of home ;)

Not brilliant food, but very well prepared and tasty. The popularity likely stems from that at that level of quality and price range for French, there's not much competition in Dubai.

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From what I hear of the prices, it would want to be more than just 'not brilliant'.

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Depends on what you're used to.

If you're used to good quality food you will find LPM an excellent example of straightforward French food extremely well prepared. It's not fussy nor pretentious. The quality of ingredients are top notch. That itself is a rarity in Dubai where too many restaurants confuse pretentiousness with quality.

Brilliant, for me, has different implications. And you usually (though not always) pay more. A lot more. But despite that I don't find LPM brilliant, I'd rather eat there weekly than at any of the "brilliant' restaurants or eateries I've sampled in the past. Those were special occasions.

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Sorry, I see what you were saying.

I don't particularly enjoy overly complicated and delicate stuff. Fantastic food doesn't have to be fancy.

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I went last month thought it was pretty good to be honest . It's better than Bagatelle which i went to in The Fairmont.

That was full of blokes wearing moustache wax with no socks and birds with drawn on eyebrows and orange faces , food was average .

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The worst kinds of people.

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I'm not sure what they are to be honest , like a fake hipster i suppose . The worlds littered with them . Not sure what all those beards are about . Dubai Marina's like a fu**ing giant real ale festival !!!

Italians look pretty cool without socks not Estate Agents from Slough !

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you've just sold that place to me. I do like that type of girl.

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A women with a orange face and drawn on eye brows = 3 drinks "I never normally go round someone's flat on the first meet..promise"

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back on topic - I am pleased to report that 1762 does a cream tea.

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I go from sporting a beard to being just stubble. I'm rarely (read: never) clean shaven...mainly because I'll look like a fat 12 year old.

But anyone who puts wax or special oils or cares for their beard to much is definitely a massive knob jockey.

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Same here but thats because a) i'm a geologist and so I can get away with looking scruffy in the office and b) because I'm massively lazy.

I do quite like getting my beard / stubble shaped when I have a hair cut tho.

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Oh goodness no, I go for trims separate to hair cut when it's too long to be arsed to do it myself. But never get the shaping done, just cut down to length and I tidy the edges for myself. Got it done once and a cabbie asked if I was Syrian. It was a low point.

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Ha ha ha! I am constantly asked if i am lebanese, and as my lebanese ladies are all immaculate and groomed beautifully, I take it as a compliment (except for the weirdo who shouted at me in arabic because they thought i was lying when i couldn't speak it and help them).

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Fine. The truth is this; cabbie asked if I was Syrian. I said with a smile, No. Before I could say British, he nodded knowingly and I instantly assumed he was going to suggest something like Lebanese or something very similar and close.

Nope. Next he suggested, believe it or not that I was, and I quote (roughly); "Afghani/Pakistani". Caught me by surprise.

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See mines generally stubble short anyway (too long and its a mix of ginger and grey :eek::thumbdown:). As such, i'm quite partial to a shaping. Thankfully there's no confusing me with a Syrian.....

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I get confused for German every now or then, which pisses the hell out of me.

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Is it because you speak aggressively:

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I get confused with being British, annoyingly I have to tell them I am English. No inbred Celtic in me

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It's my hair. Apparently I have German hair.

I blame it on my Swiss great-great-grandfather.

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I'm getting the grey now. I've always had the ginger tinge thanks to a Scottish Dad (and I think most people do anyway) but the grey is concerning when I'm only 27.

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You're doomed.

Only 27? For some reason I pictured you as older. In your 30s. 27 is a baby.

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****!! I'm 59 tomorrow!

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I'd like to think it's my maturity but it's probably directly proportional to how boring I am.

Literally the oldest man on earth.

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My Dad is older. And still delivering bottles to the doorstep.

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In fairness, my Dad's older than you so I was wrong from the start.

I'm assuming that your old man is a milkman? If so, I can't believe they still exist. I miss having milk delivered in a glass bottle. I don't miss Mum making me test the 6 bottles in the fridge for which were OK and which were sour. Disgusting job.

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Oh dear! Whoosh!!!!

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Definitely. I had an inkling that was going to be the case.

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probably the socks and sandals.

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Grey is good - As long as mine stays in I don't care about the colour.