Bistro Pop-Up Nights at Sarasota Art Museum

July 31, 2023 – Sarasota

Join The Sarasota Art Museum this summer for a Bistro Pop-Up Night! Enjoy an after-hours gallery tour, live music and a 4-course dinner curated by Executive Chef Kaytlin Dangaran. The Bistro fare is inspired by Florida’s regional fruit stands and farmer’s markets, and emphasizes local produce, healthy proteins and artisanal specialty items. 

Amuse Bouche

Bay Scallop with Heart of Palm and Morel Mushrooms

Appetizer

Seared Foie Gras with White Verjus-Soaked Tree Cake, Apricots and Pink Peppercorn

Entrée

Roasted Trout with Salsify, Marigold and Sunflower Pesto

Dessert

Honeycomb Cake with Bee Pollen and Greek Yogurt

The 4-course Dinner is $100 per person and the 4-Course Dinner with Wine Pairing is $130 per person. Vegetarian alternatives are available upon request.

Dinner reservations are available for 6:30 pm. Private tour will begin one hour prior to dinner, at 5:30 pm.

This month’s menu is themed to the current exhibition: Reassembling Spilt Light, an Immersive Installation by multimedia artist Carlos Bunga. Originally trained as a painter, Bunga has developed a signature artistic language, “expanded painting,” which hybridizes and deconstructs the boundaries of painting, sculpture, architecture, and performance. For this solo exhibition, Bunga will create a cardboard structure in the 30-foot-high Koski Gallery located on the Museum’s third floor. Accompanying Bunga’s site-responsive structure are selected photographs, videos, and paintings that further showcase the notion of light as a physical and phenomenological component, as well as a metaphor for reflection and hope in his own body of work. The exhibition will also include a set of drawings created after completing his onsite work.