Special Manhattan attraction draws the lunchtime crowds

Date: 08/10/1998

Have you ever wondered where those officials from the Commission's Directorate-General for agriculture (DGVI) are when you try to call?

If you have, our contacts suggest that you should try the Manhattan bar in Maelbeck metro station at lunchtimes.

And what is it exactly that draws these highly paid civil servants to this rather dingy bar? Is it the food? Is it the range of fine wines? Or could it be the fact that the bar puts on a strip show in the middle of the day?

No wonder you can't get hold of anybody before three o'clock.