Any thoughts on Kensington Roof Gardens for a team night out? What's the dress code?

Thanks for being a thought-pursuer on this matter.I would recommend off-white very loose and breezy material for your wear.

As with a lot of places, no effort no entry. No strict guidelines, just smart fashionable so no gym gear, football shirts etc, smart trainers or shoes, jeans, maybe a jacket for the fellas over a T or polo etc.

Sounds splendid. Might I also recommend Fabric? This Friday one Erol Alkan is playing. Obviously the dress code is a factor, something laid back yet quirky should fit the bill. Got to avoid that sterile 'newness' of studied cool.

What about Tiger Tiger? It's real easy to pull there, but loads of Essex chav birds

Thanks Mars.As for Fabric and Tiger Tiger, I can't really see the partners raving/ pulling a slapper.

My experience tells me you give the partners too much credit.The wildest person I ever encountered in consulting was an ATK partner. On team nights out he would out drink, out dance and out-manoeuvre (with the fairer s3x) everybody else, including analysts and associates.

Certainly the parnters in IBM knew how to party.When I was there, most of them in the Defence practice seemed to have mistresses on every client siteHence the old joke about IBM standing for "I've Been Married" or "I've Bonked Many"

Tell me more about IBM. As a company, what are they like? Is it very "American" there? Are the people friendly and down to earth?

I left in 2006 after the PWC consulting merger really started to flounder.The atmosphere is very sterile and not particularly friendly. If you go for interview, take a walk around the floor in Southbank to see literally hundreds of worker bees, with very few of them talking to eachother unless they are on a client team. Not a very warm place. This is why all the PWC folk left as soon as they could

> The wildest person I ever encountered in consulting was an ATK partner. On team nights out he would out drink, out dance and out-manoeuvre (with the fairer s3x) everybody else, including analysts and associates.Which one, do tell!

I once spat out my drink when somebody mentioned that they think P. Stringfellow looks like an old woman.

He's acutally my nan