Review on The Portrait Restaurant

Famed for its awesome views of Trafalgar Square and the London skyline (ask for a window table when booking) The Portrait Restaurant is a family-friendly venue par excellence, catering for hordes of visitors, business types, tourists and art-lovers.

Lunch is the main event (with slightly more ambitious evening meals added on Thursdays and Fridays). The kitchen offers its own take on re-invented British cuisine with eclectic overtones, serving home-made black pudding with scallops, apple and vanilla compote alongside roast fillet of cod with 'bashed' potatoes. crispy bacon and pea cream.

Elsewhere, other influences might show up in the shape of pavé of tuna with vegetable crudités and wasabi mayonnaise or risotto of summer leeks and asparagus, while puds span everything from lemon cheesecake with blueberry compote to banana and chocolate fudge spring rolls with hot chocolate sauce.

The Portrait Restaurant is also featured in: Good Food Guide, Hardens, AA Guide

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Cuisine

Modern British

Chef

Matthew Harris

Restaurant Opening Times

Breakfast: 10.00 - 11.00am
Lunch: 11.45 - 3.00pm (3.30 - 4.30pm AfternoonTea)
Dinner: 5.30 - 8.30pm last orders Thu-Sat

Accepted credit cards

Visa, Master Card, American Express

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Facilities at The Portrait Restaurant

  • Pre theater meals
  • Disabled access
  • Private parties
  • Vegetarian menu
  • 120 covers

Address

The Portrait Restaurant
National Portrait Gallery
St Martins Place
Trafalgar Square
Central London
WC2H 0HE

Nearest tube station: Leicester Square

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The Portrait Restaurant Sample Menu

SAMPLE DINNER MENU

Aperitifs
Kentish strawberry Bellini Kentish strawberry purée & sparkling wine £9.50
Perfect Negroni Sipsmith Gin, Campari, Antica Formula £10.00
Red velvet Iced tea £4.95

First Courses
Isle of Wight tomatoes, whipped goats curd, watercress pesto (v) £10.50
Marinated anchovies, fine beans, fennel, tomato, olives, saffron dressing £10.50
Jasmine tea smoked salmon, Cornish new potatoes, watercress, soft boiled egg, green sauce £13.50
Tuna carpaccio, datterino tomatoes, marjoram salmoriglio £13.00
Half Dorset Blue native lobster, mayonnaise, watercress £24.00
Bayonne ham, Charentais melon, mint £11.00
Steak tartare, toasted brioche £15.50

Main Courses
Spinach mousse, summer vegetables, hollandaise £19.50
28 day aged rib eye steak, Roquefort butter, triple cooked chips £32.50
Fillet of hake, razor clams mariniere, spinach £29.50
Grilled rabbit, Landaise black pudding, hispi cabbage, mustard sauce £24.00
Portrait's Specials
Large steak tartare, served with triple cooked chips £23.00
Whole Dorset Blue native lobster, mayonnaise, watercress £48.00
Romney Marsh lamb rump, white coco beans, tomato, herbs, tapenade £25.00

Sides (v) £4.00
Minted new potatoes / Triple cooked chips / Spinach
Courgettes provencal / Escarole and rocket salad, lemon vinaigrette

Puddings (v)
Raspberry macaroon, Chapel Down syllabub £9.50
Chocolate pot, salted caramel £8.00
English strawberries, clotted cream £8.00
Cherry clafoutis, vanilla ice cream £9.00
Portrait ice creams and sorbets £7.00
Vanilla, chocolate, salted caramel, mango, lemon

Cheeses (v)
British cheeses,oatcakes,quincejelly 3 - £12.50 / 4 - £15.00
Our selection – Oxford Isis*(v) / Barkham Blue (v) / Tunworth* / Golden Cross* (v) / Lincolnshire Poacher*
* Made from raw milk

Restaurant menus often vary from day to day, so the above should be treated as examples of what to expect in terms of cuisine and price.

The Portrait Restaurant Christmas Menu

Restaurant menus often vary from day to day, so the above should be treated as examples of what to expect in terms of cuisine and price.

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