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The Portrait restaurant: a secret glade of stone and brick, suspended above Trafalgar Square

Tourists inhabit a different city. This is a good place from which to watch  it

2 May 2015

9:00 AM

2 May 2015

9:00 AM

The Portrait Restaurant lives at the top of the National Portrait Gallery, London. It is fiercely modern, but likeable. You ride an escalator into a void, glimpse the raging faces of the Plantagenets and take a lift upwards, away from dead kings and film characters walking the streets. (Downstairs, by the entrance to the National Gallery, two competing Yodas from Star Wars are posing for photographs.

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Portrait Restaurant, National Portrait Gallery, St Martin’s Place, London WC2H 0HE; tel: 020 7312 2490.

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