Lunch in the Portrait Restaurant

If I'm at the National Portrait Gallery for events in the morning and afternoon I try and have lunch in the Portrait Restaurant at the top of the building.  It has a fabulous view which I never get bored of and the food's not bad either (you can review the menus online - see links below) although not cheap!

Lunch at the Portrait Restaurant - June 2012
11" x 16" pen and sepia ink in Moleskine sketchbook

It's much used by people to meet up with friends, do interviews, do work etc.  On this occasion I got very distracted when I realised one of the people I was sketching was Jon Snow (look no face!)

I was making notes of the interviews I'd just done the award-winning artists and about the portraits I'd just seen in the BP Portrait Exhibition so on this occasions did not sketch lunch!

See my posts on Making A Mark

• Aleah Chapin wins £25,000 BP Portrait Award 2012
• Review: BP Portrait Award Exhibition 2012 (Part 1)
• Review: BP Portrait Award Exhibition 2012 (Part 2)
• Video of BP Portrait Award Exhibition 2012 - a walk around the exhibition with a handheld camcorder.
• A Profile of Aleah Chapin - includes a link to my video film of edited highlights from my interview with Aleah.

The opening hours are a bit odd - but then it is in a Gallery! I've quoted the current hours below

• Breakfast & Afternoon Tea
• Breakfast - Monday-Sunday, 10:00-11:00 (last orders to the kitchen by 11:30)
• Afternoon Tea: Monday-Sunday, 15:30-17:00 (last orders for the kitchen 17:00)
• Lunch & Dinner
• Lunch - Monday-Friday, 12:00-14:45 (last orders for the kitchen 15:00)
• Dinner: Thursday, Friday & Saturday 17:30 - 22:00 (last food orders for the kitchen 20:30)
• Pre-Theatre Dinner: Thursday,Friday & Saturday evenings, 17:30-18:30 (last orders for the kitchen 18:45)