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That evening I was invited to something called "Mile
High". At first I wondered if it was a suggestive spam
email, but then I spotted that it was in fact an
invitation to dinner at a new pop-up.
The phrase "pop-up" tends to make journalists
bristle: most are temporary because they are not very
good. But there are of course notable exceptions, and
Mile High is one of them.
Held inside a disused Royal Mail sorting office
(there are now at least two of these in the capital
serving as party venues), the theme is "the golden
age of air travel". Upon arrival, you check-in at the
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The next "flight" is to Beirut. Take a date – it's cheaper than a dirty weekend
away, and a reminder that you should always have dinner together before you
even consider "joining the mile high club".
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