Possible Clues:

• Good of us to receive half-hearted epicure
• Person of refined taste partly improving our method
• Restaurant critic, perhaps
• Travel to old city having faced gastronome
• One devoted to the refined enjoyment of food and drink
• Connoisseur - get round rum concoction included
• Foodie, jolly type, finally overcome by painful condition
• Travel to ancient city, having encountered a bon viveur
• Food lover satisfied after endless fruit
• A connoisseur of good food and drink