The Great North Museum: Hancock, the Discovery Museum and the Laing Art Gallery, are now offering the thousands of visitors they attract each year, a dining option.
Sodexo Prestige Venues & Events manages conferences and events at the three venues, and has created a locally themed dinner and two wide-ranging set dinner menus for seated events. The caterer has created a range of hot and cold bowl dishes as an alternative to canapés, including Thai green prawn curry and rice.
Sandria Charalambous, senior events coordinator for Sodexo Prestige Venues & Events, said: “The main attraction of the Laing Art Gallery, the Great North Museum and Discovery Museums is their versatility.
“An event could begin with a drinks reception in the shadow of the historic SS Turbinia, for example and continue with dinner in Discovery’s magnificent, vaulted, art nouveau, Great Hall.
“Alternatively, guests could drink and dine alongside a life-sized replica of a Tyrannosaurus Rex and other wonders of the natural world at the Great North Museum: Hancock or within view of some of the finest pre-Raphaelite paintings at the Laing.
“And, from canapé receptions and working lunches to afternoon cream teas and black tie dinners, we source the finest ingredients.”