Thanks. It was a miracle taking that photo after so much beer. Mainly "mutton flaps": the very fatty meat of old sheep that cannot be made into anything else but dog food!
Yes shadow detail seems reasonable. However, this is a crop of the negative. There were illuminated menu boards above the chef (you can just see the corner of one on the top left). These did not fare well, and the detail was just not there (i.e highlights blown to smithereens). The brightness range was too much in this scene for all of the photo to be satisfactory.