Now that's what I call value

A Lions' dinner meeting yesterday evening.  We use a different venue each month and this month all was arranged at the last minute as personal problems had interfered for the guy who deals with this.  Anyway, we met at an Italian restaurant in the centre of town.  I opted for a 3-course meal at £8.95: prawn cocktail, rigatone al amatriciana, lemon sorbet.  Espresso for £1.50 and a bottle of house wine £6.95 on production of the advert from the local paper.  The Old Bat's stawberries had a £1.25 supplement and I think her cappucino was £1.75.  And the servings were standard size - which means they weren't small by any means.  Total cost: about £30 for the two of us, half what we paid the other Saturday and the food was just as good.  The company was equally good as well.  All in all a good evening.