<div align="center"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;"><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: impact;">SNELL'S KITCHEN</span></span></div><br/><div class="floatleft">(http://www.realitytvfan.net/images/gordon-ramsay-hells-kitchen11.jpg)</div><strong>ALEX SNELL</strong><br/><br/><em>Monday, 10.50 am</em><br/><br/>Slightly hungover, Alex Snell walked from Canary Wharf tube station to his new restaurant. He'd set up some cash cows before, but this business was already turning out to be a success story even by his own standards. Even Alex had never got away with charging £200 for a starter before. But it's amazing how much a City boy will pay for lunch when he's got cocaine money to spare.<br/><br/>The menu for lunch was always simple and a set menu. Alex preferred to save his more elaborate specialties for the busier dinner sitting. The 'Business lunch' menu for Monday was as follows:<br/><br/><div align="center">Business lunch - Monday<br/><br/>£400 <br/><br/>Starter:<br/>Parma ham à la brassière, served with chilled crème fraîche, crushed pistachios and shallot dressing<br/>X X X<br/>                                            Main Course:<br/>                            Pan fried sea trout with wild mushrooms and scallops, in sorrel sauce<br/>                                   X X X<br/>                               Dessert:<br/>                                              Fruits de Forêt façon Tanga, with almond pastry fingers<br/>                                                         <br/>                                                                 Service charge not included<br/><br/></div><br/><br/><br/>Alex made himself an espresso and started slicing the Parma ham into the right shape for the dish he had in mind, occasionally popping a morsel in his mouth and sipping his coffee. He looked on his watch: 10.55 am. Jamie, Julia and Lana would be there no later than 10.59 if they knew what was good for them, as would the new girl. Vicky, was it? The master chef sliced happily and carefully away at the ham as he counted down to 11 o'clock. A waitress's first day was always a pleasure for the rest of the staff, if not for the new girl herself.