This was a surprise birthday party that my colleague and I hosted for two of our ex-colleagues. I chose the venue and it was a huge hit: a Chinese restaurant specializing in the cuisine of Northeast China featuring lots of lamb in many different ways, plus mostly organic reasonably-priced wines.
And after all that food and drinking, we moved on to another nearby “standing” bar at which we stood outside the shop and had one more bottle of wine.
It was indeed a happy birthday night.