How leaders mingle after Nato meetings: with fine food, art and music at Madrid’s famous Prado Museum
- Nato dinner held in Madrid Prado Museum with Kyiv Symphony Orchestra
- Guests were treated to a menu by Spanish-US celebrity chef Jose Andres
Nato country leaders and European Union heads of state and government got to admire some of the world’s greatest art and listen to a Ukrainian classical orchestra live as they gathered to dine at Madrid’s Prado Museum.
Wednesday’s dinner – prepared by Spanish-US chef, Jose Andres – was preceded by a live performance by the Kyiv Symphony Orchestra, which has been in exile because of the war.
US President Joe Biden attended the event with his two granddaughters. The mayor of the Ukrainian city of Kyiv Vitali Klitschko and his brother, Wladimir were also there.
The group posed for a family photograph on either side of Diego Velazquez’s Las Meninas, the museum’s crown jewel, before sitting down to eat in the Jeronimo’s Cloister annex.
Madrid’s Prado is one of the largest and most important art museums in the world.
The menu included a dessert of strawberries from the Spanish city of Cuenca dressed in anis, violet caramel and with a typical Madrid “barquillo” finger wafer biscuit.