Possible Clues:

• Knock your friends back to a first-class meal
• Lavish china passed round during drink
• Top-notch, to a Brit
• Perhaps pals make a real do of it
• Is it the pals that do it regardless of expense?
• Get friends down for such a lavish meal?
• What a good meal for your pals, perhaps
• Seconds to take eagerly at such a meal?
• Lavish (colloq.)
• Such a big meal could make friends