Last week you mentioned the names of Marlon Brando, Pierce Brosnan, Meryl Streep and Julie Walters. Name-dropping is a shameless practice, as Sir Sean Connery so often tells me.

Gordon Casely, Aberdeen

Are there any restaurants in London where you didn’t dine with Marlon Brando? With his name making such regular appearances in your column, was his enormous girth your fault?

Jonathan Klineberg, Cornwall

Like you we had dinner at the Baglioni hotel (Winner’s Dinners, August 19). Two items were unacceptably horrific, the food and the price! The chef should be sent back to Italy to learn how to cook a good meal. The ravioli must have been prepared well in advance, it tasted as if warmed up in a microwave, namely dry and leathery. My vitello Milanese was served as cubes with tired vegetables. It was sent back as the meat was literally raw. My friend’s dessert was a bad-tasting and expensive joke! The bill was £122 plus tip. Ridiculous!

John Lawrence, London

How come, Michael, whenever you’re reminiscing about long-gone restaurants the owner is always referred to as a “nice man”? I suppose when we hear a restaurateur saying, “Michael Winner was a nice fellow,” you’ll be dining in another place.

Jeff Cohen, Surrey

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