 The next year, mutton had to be dropped from the menu, replaced by lamb because procuring top quality mutton was increasingly difficult, and the meat was no longer fashionable.In 1982, after a thirty-year absence, rabbit was restored to the menu; it was served in a cream and mushroom sauce.In 1984 Simpson's dropped its rule forbidding women from using the panelled street-level dining-room at lunchtime.