Pity, it probably would have raised the bar for the segment. The Burning Giraffe is one such example. The Burning Giraffe, Lahore: See 4 unbiased reviews of The Burning Giraffe, rated 4.5 of 5 on Tripadvisor and ranked #126 of 465 restaurants in Lahore. Dali painted Burning Giraffe before his exile in the United States which was from 1940 to 1948. It is an oil painting on panel and is in the Kunstmuseum Basel . The work dates from 1937 when Dali was 34 years old. Although Dali declared himself apolitical - "I am Dali, and only that" - this painting shows his personal struggle with the battle in his home country. The Burning Giraffe is featured in a 1937 Salvador Dalí painting of the same name. This giraffe is an opponent of Atlas in the video game Rock of Ages II: Bigger & Boulder; the two go head to head in the "Persistence of Memory"-inspired setting of Cadaques, Spain. The Burning Giraffe (1937) is a painting by the Catalan surrealist Salvador Dalí. The Burning Giraffe, Lahore’s resident Cheetos sliders specialist, escapes the wrath of my labels. This is the long-story-long of how I grabbed lunch with a friend at The Burning Giraffe. Dalí painted Burning Giraffe before his exile in the United States, which was from 1940 to 1948. It was painted in Spain, with oils on board, prior to Dali’s American sojourn in the early 1940s.