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Your support makes all the difference.Being famous means that one has to avoid places where ordinary people congregate. It's hard to sit down in a restaurant without someone wanting to take your order or show you some wine list or other.
At Nellie's Green Room and Brasserie in Comedy Street, London W1 (telephone ex-directory), they know that tired theatricals need an expensive meal, a line of cocaine and a good conversation about ourselves at four in the morning without having to worry about being polite to the staff. The bar does a completely authentic Peruvian nesquicko, a kind of spicy South American Complan, made from limes and raw liver.
For the most convincing Creole, I go to Ma Rosenthal's Balti and Tapas Griddle on the Piazza at Covent Garden (freephone Cook-in- sauce). They're great with kids and completely cool about prostitutes and members of the Royal Family. It's just if you start taking your friends along that they get a bit ugly. But the rudeness is authentic Bayou va-t'enculer and complements the down-home swamp ambience perfectly.
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