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Before joining an inn I took advice on which would confer the greatest benefit. I was told that Lincolns had the best wine cellar but that after that it was all much of a muchness. On the basis of the only advice I had been given therefore, I joined Lincolns.

I last dined about 15 years ago. From memory it wasn't expensive, especially considering what you got for your money - certainly eclipses any fine dining establishment on a value for money basis. I even took a (non-lawyer) friend to a Saturday lunch dining once, just for the experience, though it didn't have quite the ambiance in the daylight and absent the gowns.

Can't say it actually added much in academic terms however, though the dinners were always accompanied by a day of seminars and the mixing before being called in for dinner provided a good venue for advice and discussion. The meals themselves however, well you were limited to whoever happened to be within conversational range. I was once offered a very nice cigar by a judge though.

I do recall a lot of people eagerly awaiting the lighting of a candle on the top table to signify that people were permitted to smoke (and that therefore you could get up to go to the loo, for which a great many were by that point reaching bursting point)! I suspect it all boils down to something of an anachronism to most and very much a legacy of a bygone age.

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