Bacon's Butty Roll and Bubbles: In Celebration of The Francis Bacon Exhibition
In celebration of the upcoming Francis Bacon: Human Presence exhibition, The Portrait Restaurant is offering a one-off treat for art lovers from 10th October – 19th January. Enjoy a glass of champagne and an extra-special bacon butty, Sugar Pit Bacon, Lincolnshire Poacher Butter, Bentley’s Bakery Bread Roll, Bacon Chilli Jam for just £20.
For Bacon, good food – its appearance, the images it conjured and, importantly, its colour – played a strong part in both life and art. Bacon had a fatalistic approach to life. As well as his art, he loved to gamble, and these, together with his desperate optimism saw him live life to the full until, enjoying a reputation as a flamboyant gourmand as well as one of the most famous and successful artists of the 20th century. The combination of the classic Bacon sandwich using Irish sugar pit bacon, English Lincolnshire butter and Shipton Mill flour with the most famous of all sparkling wines from France, Champagne (of which Bacon was particularly fond of drinking) highlights to us what Francis Bacon’s life was all about.
Available Wednesday – Saturday 15:00 – 20:30. Available on the bar only.
