In the appetizers section, he gives recipes for Nan's Bacon Sticks, a recipe from Nan Kempner's private chef ("Just like Nan was, they are very chic and razor-thin").
Since Bacon's death in 1992, a new generation of British artists, notably Mr Hirst one of whose coloured dot paintings hangs over the bar and the portraitist Justin Mortimer, also represented here, have made this their own watering hole.