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Angela Maria Hartnett (born September 1968) is an English Michelin-starred
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. A
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of
Gordon Ramsay Gordon James Ramsay (; born ) is a British chef, restaurateur, television personality and writer. His restaurant group, Gordon Ramsay Restaurants, was founded in 1997 and has been awarded 17 Michelin stars overall; it currently holds a tot ...
who became well known by her appearances on British television, she was Chef-Patron at Angela Hartnett at The Connaught in London. Currently, she is Chef-Patron for
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in
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, Café Murano in
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and
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, Cucina Angelina in
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(France) and joint owner of Merchant's Tavern in
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.


Early life and education

Angela Hartnett was born in
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to Patrick Hartnett, an Irish sailor in the Merchant Navy, and Giuliana Pesci, whose parents had migrated from Bardi in Emilia-Romagna to Ferndale in the Rhondda Valley, part of a substantial Welsh Italian community. Her father died when she was seven years old. Her mother moved the young family (older brother and younger sister) to
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in
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to be closer to both sets of grandparents. Their Italian maternal grandmother cared for the children whilst Giuliana worked long hours as a
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and nanny. At 18 Hartnett went to Italy for a year to work as an
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before graduating with a degree in history at Cambridge Polytechnic.


Career

Starting relatively late in her chosen career path, she learned on the job at a hotel in
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, then at the
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restaurant in
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. In 1994, she returned to the UK, and undertook a one-day trial at
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's first restaurant
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. Alongside
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, she worked six days a week alongside Ramsay for longer than the two weeks Wareing predicted – Ramsay called her a bitch occasionally, alongside his favoured name for her: Dizzy Lizzy. She supported Ramsay at
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and L'Oranger, then joining Wareing as his
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at Petrus. After launching Amaryllis in Scotland with David Dempsey in 2001, Hartnett helped with the launch of Verre in
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, Ramsay's first overseas restaurant. In 2003, Hartnett won the 'Best Newcomer Award' and the
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Guides' BMW Best New Restaurant award for the two restaurants at The Connaught. In 2004, she netted her first
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. In 2007, she opened Cielo, a Ramsay Group restaurant in
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. She made her first television appearance in the first series of
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's ''
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.'' In 2015, Angela took part in the final episode, and oversaw the final task for MasterChef UK. Just before The Connaught Hotel closed for restoration in mid-2007, Hartnett published her first book, ''Cucina: Three Generations of Italian Family Cooking;'' while it was closed she was seen on
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's ''
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'' and '' Take on the Takeaway.'' Gordon Ramsay Holdings Ltd agreed to cease their contract with The Connaught Hotel in September 2007, and in August 2008 Hartnett launched Murano, a fine-dining Italian restaurant in
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. Murano has subsequently been awarded one Michelin star and is the holder of four AA Rosettes. She created Cafe Murano, a more relaxed setting, in St James in November 2013 and a further site in
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in July 2015, alongside Pastificio, a deli-cafe, wine bar and pasta factory, making
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for the restaurants every four hours. In 2013 she opened Merchant's Tavern in collaboration with Neil Borthwick and Canteen founders Dominic Lake and Patrick Clayton-Malone. From January to March 2016, Hartnett presented ''Tomorrow’s Food'' alongside
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, Chris Bavin and Dr
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. The
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show looks at the cutting-edge technologies and produce appearing in farms, supermarkets, kitchens and restaurants around the world, and how this is transforming the way we grow, buy and eat our food. In 2020, Hartnett joined Bavin and
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as a judge on the BBC One reality cooking show ''
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'', replacing series one judge Dan Doherty. Hartnett was appointed
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(MBE) in the
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for services to the hospitality industry and
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(OBE) in the 2022 New Year Honours for services to the hospitality industry and to the National Health Service during the Covid-19 response. For some years she has been a judge for the BBC Food and Farming Awards. One of her fellow judges, journalist
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, profiled her in "A Life Through Food" on ''
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'' in January 2022. In 2018 she was profiled in
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's documentary film '' The Heat: A Kitchen (R)evolution''.


Personal life

Hartnett is married to Neil Borthwick, head chef of Hartnett's restaurant Merchant's Tavern and former
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of Phil Howard's Michelin-starred The Square, and lives in
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with her sister, in a house owned by Hartnett and her brother. She owned a Jack Russell called Alfie that she rescued from Battersea Dogs Home in 2007, and also has a
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named Otis that was previously owned by her sister. She spends a holiday every year in Bardi, the town from where most of the Welsh-based Italian families can trace their roots.


References


External links

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Bio at BBC FoodBio at UK TV Foodinterview with Angela Hartnett
{{DEFAULTSORT:Hartnett, Angela 1968 births Living people English people of Italian descent English people of Irish descent People from Canterbury Alumni of Anglia Ruskin University English chefs Officers of the Order of the British Empire Women chefs Head chefs of Michelin starred restaurants