Financial markets may be rocky and bankers' bonuses down - but for the diner with cash to burn a London restaurant has launched the city's most expensive fixed-price seven course menu at 1,000 pounds a head.

Aiming at bankers, lawyers and other denizens of London's rich financial district known as the "City" who did receive a bonus this year, restaurant Vivat Bacchus says the menu is actually a reasonable price.

It includes a vodka and seven glasses of wine including a 1963 port and a glass of Chateau Lafite Rothchild normally costing 700 pounds a bottle.

The courses include caviar, Bahama rock lobster linguini flavoured with 40-year-old armagnac, hand sliced Spanish Joselito Gran Reserve ham and grilled Wagyu steak with red onion marmalade, seared goose foie gras and sauteed green beans.

As a global financial centre, London has long had a reputation for extravagance on offer from exclusive hotels to nightclubs, attracting American magnates, Russian millionaires and Gulf oil sheiks.

Source: Reuters

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