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The Portrait Restaurant

National Portrait Gallery,
St Martin's Place, London WC2H 0HE
Nearest Tube Station: Leicester Square, Charing Cross
Opening Hours: 12noon-3:00pm, 5:30-11:00pm
tel: 020 7312 2490
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The Portrait Restaurant is housed on the roof top of the National Portrait Gallery. It is located on the 3rd floor of the Gallery's new Ondaatje wing. At 92 feet above ground, the restaurant offers splended views of Trafalgar Square, down Whitehall towards the Palace of Westminster across the Thames and London Eye. The restaurant is open daily for lunch, and twice a week (Thursdays and Fridays, coinciding with the Gallery's extended hours) for dinner. It sits 80 guests while the bar area seats 25.

Sample lunch menu:

starters
GARDEN PEA & MINT SOUP - £5.25
POACHED ASPARAGUS- £6.95
hollandaise sauce
WILD LEEK & STILTON TART - £7.25
micro cress salad
SCOTCH BEEF CARPACCIO - £8.25
truffle cheese, pine nuts & rocket
BRIXHAM CRAB MAYONNAISE - £8.50
avocado & seeded granary toast
WARM CHICKEN LIVER, CURED BACON - £6.95 / 12.95
cherries & baby spinach, honey & mustard dressing
CORNISH MACKEREL - £7.95 / 13.95
potato, egg & horseradish, capers & ruby chard
GLOBE ARTICHOKE,WILD MUSHROOM & ANYA POTATO SALAD - £7.95 / 13.95
poached free range egg, lemon dressing

main courses
BROAD BEAN, LEMON & MINT RISOTTO - £13.95
parmesan shavings
SMOKED HADDOCK, PRAWN & LEEK PIE - £14.95
applewood cheddar potato crust
WARM SUMMER BABY VEGETABLE SALAD - £15.25
sauce vierge
SLOW ROAST SUFFOLK PORK BELLY - £15.75
apricots & lentils, sherry jus
BAKED WHOLE SAND SOLE - £15.95
purple sprouting broccoli, tomato, caper, red onion & black olive salsa
CORNISH POLLOCK - £16.95
marsh samphire, fennel & Palourde clam broth
ROAST CORN FED CHICKEN BREAST - £17.25
white asparagus, wild garlic & baby spinach, mushroom jus
WARM CURED SCOTTISH SALMON - £17.50
dill creamed potatoes, sweet pickled cucumber
BAKED WHOLE DEVON SAND SOLE - £18.95
spring greens, tomato, caper, red onion & black olive salsa
WELSH RUMP OF LAMB
baby carrots & leeks, colcannon & green sauce





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