7pm Trader Vic’s
After three cocktails, head of sales Steve Warwick has told us why he’s
called ’spanky’, sales assistant Karen Witt has offered 20-year-old
sales executive Neil Bolton a bed for the night and Bolton has started
whispering sweet nothings to a wooden parrot adorning his second
cocktail.
8.30pm Soho House
We are quickly asked to leave. Perhaps it was the editor drooling over
Kylie Minogue? (Well, it’s better than drooling under her.)
9pm Teatro
Our stay here also threatens to be short. Staff object to the blokes
using the women’s toilets. Also to sales manager Bobbi Brown encouraging
us all to do handstands against pristine walls. ’But we took our shoes
off,’ protests Brown, while the maitre d’ fumes. Warwick adds:
’Customers are always right, even when they’re doing handstands.’
1.30pm Boardwalk
Brown insists on taking off her shoes and socks and dancing in the
fountain (full of broken beer bottles) until her feet are sliced to
shreds.
2pm Corkers
Ah yes, pounds 30 for a glass of Bucks Fizz, how reasonable. Editor legs
it, leaving Bolton with a classy lady called Rita - looks like the
parrot is dumped.
