Angela Hartnett

Angela Hartnett was born in Merseyside 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 Upminster in Outer London to be closer to both sets of grandparents. Their Italian maternal grandmother cared for the children whilst Giuliana worked long hours as a dinner lady and nanny. At 18, Hartnett went to Italy for a year to work as an au pair before graduating with a degree in history at Cambridge Polytechnic.{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/3344809/Angela-Hartnett-kitchen-influential.html|title=Angela Hartnett: kitchen influential|first=Lucy|last=Cavendish|date=2 August 2008|work=The Daily Telegraph}}{{cite news|url=http://lifeandhealth.guardian.co.uk/food/story/0,,2065306,00.html |title=Ramsay's kitchen queen |work=The Guardian |location=UK |date=29 April 2007 |accessdate=7 April 2008 |first=Carole |last=Cadwalladr |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080415210524/http://lifeandhealth.guardian.co.uk/food/story/0%2C%2C2065306%2C00.html |archivedate=15 April 2008 |url-status=live }}

Starting relatively late in her chosen career path, she learned on the job at a hotel in Cambridge, then at the Sandy Lane Hotel restaurant in Barbados.{{cite web|url=http://uktv.co.uk/food/item/aid/577617|title=Angela Hartnett|publisher=UK TV Food|accessdate=7 April 2008| archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080401043251/http://uktv.co.uk/food/item/aid/577617| archivedate= 1 April 2008 | url-status=live}}

In 1994, she returned to the UK, and undertook a one-day trial at Gordon Ramsay's first restaurant Aubergine. Alongside Marcus Wareing, 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 Zafferano and L'Oranger, then joining Wareing as his sous chef at Petrus. After launching Amaryllis in Scotland with David Dempsey in 2001, Hartnett helped with the launch of Verre in Dubai, Ramsay's first overseas restaurant.

In 2003, Hartnett got the 'Best Newcomer Award' and the SquareMeal Guides' BMW Best New Restaurant award for the two restaurants at the Connaught.{{cite web|url=http://www.lifestylefood.com.au/chefs/chef.asp?id=124|title=Angela hartnett|publisher=Lifestyle Food|accessdate=7 April 2008|archive-date=31 July 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080731192055/http://www.lifestylefood.com.au/chefs/chef.asp?id=124|url-status=dead}} In 2004, she netted her first Michelin star.{{cite web |url=http://www.caterersearch.com/Articles/2008/05/02/320654/angela-hartnett.html| title=Angela Hartnett profile | date=2 May 2008 | publisher=Caterersearch.com | accessdate=30 May 2008| archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080517130517/http://www.caterersearch.com/Articles/2008/05/02/320654/angela-hartnett.html| archivedate= 17 May 2008 | url-status=live}} In 2007, she opened Cielo, a Ramsay Group restaurant in Boca Raton.{{cite web|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=aEA.6iu1R5zM&refer=home|title=Angela Hartnett Quits the Connaught, Plans New Ramsay Venture|author=Richard Vines|publisher=Blooberg|date=13 September 2007|accessdate=7 April 2008}} She made her first television appearance in the first series of ITV1's Hell's Kitchen. In 2015, Angela took part in the final episode, and oversaw the final task for MasterChef UK.

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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 BBC's Kitchen Criminals 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 Mayfair.{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/01/20/nchefs120.xml |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080123121341/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/01/20/nchefs120.xml |url-status=dead |archive-date=23 January 2008 | work=The Daily Telegraph | location=London | title=Gordon Ramsay eats his own words | date=20 January 2008 | accessdate=25 April 2010}} 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 Covent Garden in July 2015, alongside Pastificio, a deli-cafe, wine bar and pasta factory, making fresh pasta 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 Dara Ó Briain, Chris Bavin and Dr Shini Somara. The BBC One 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.{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/42ssmBZdhZ0rRBTRQnJJ1NB/presenter-biographies |title=Tomorrow's Food- Presenter Biographies |publisher=BBC |accessdate=13 July 2016}} In 2020, Hartnett joined Bavin and Mary Berry as a judge on the BBC One reality cooking show Best Home Cook, replacing series one judge Dan Doherty.{{cite news |title=What's on TV and radio tonight: Thursday, 2 January |url=https://www.thetimes.com/culture/tv-radio/article/whats-on-tv-and-radio-tonight-thursday-january-2-9xh765jhn |access-date=5 January 2020 |work=The Times |date=2 January 2020 |language=en}}

Hartnett was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2007 New Year Honours for services to the hospitality industry{{London Gazette |date=30 December 2006 |issue= 58196| page= 17|supp=y}} and Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2022 New Year Honours for services to the hospitality industry and to the National Health Service during the Covid-19 response.{{London Gazette|issue=63571|supp=y|page=N12|date=1 January 2022}}

For some years she has been a judge for the BBC Food and Farming Awards.{{Cite web |title=BBC Radio 4 - Food and Farming Awards, Meet the Food & Farming Awards judges for 2019 - Angela Hartnett |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0706q7w/p070c6n2 |access-date=2022-07-01 |website=BBC |language=en-GB}} One of her fellow judges, journalist Sheila Dillon, profiled her in "A Life Through Food" on The Food Programme in January 2022.{{Cite web |title=BBC Radio 4 - The Food Programme, Angela Hartnett: A Life Through Food |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0013qx2 |access-date=2022-07-01 |website=BBC |language=en-GB}}

In 2018 she was profiled in Maya Gallus's documentary film The Heat: A Kitchen (R)evolution.Isabel Teotonio, [https://www.thestar.com/life/2018/04/24/new-documentary-the-heat-puts-spotlight-on-female-chefs-in-male-dominated-industry.html "New documentary the Heat puts spotlight on female chefs in male-dominated industry"]. Toronto Star, April 24, 2018.

In 2022, Harnett launched the award-winning podcast Dish with television and radio personality Nick Grimshaw in partnership with Waitrose.{{Cite web |title=Nick Grimshaw and Angela Hartnett launch fifth season of Dish podcast |url=https://www.johnlewispartnership.media/pressrelease/waitrose/details/19178 |access-date=2024-06-03 |website=www.johnlewispartnership.media |language=en}}

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Hartnett is married to Neil Borthwick, head chef of Hartnett's restaurant Merchant's Tavern and former sous-chef of Phil Howard's Michelin-starred The Square,{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2013/aug/17/angela-hartnett-neil-borthwick|title=Angela Hartnett: 'The first feeling I had was shock' |first=Elizabeth |last=Day |date=17 August 2013 |work=The Guardian |access-date=1 February 2021 }}{{cite news |first=Samuel |last=Muston |date=30 August 2013 |title=Book It like Beckham |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/news/book-it-beckham-footballer-s-restaurant-sellout-8792373.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220507/https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/news/book-it-beckham-footballer-s-restaurant-sellout-8792373.html |archive-date=7 May 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |work=The Independent |access-date=1 February 2021 }}{{cbignore}} and lives in Spitalfields with her sister, in a house owned by Hartnett and her brother.{{cite news |url=http://property.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/property/article2398148.ece |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100529003028/http://property.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/property/article2398148.ece |url-status=dead |archive-date=29 May 2010 |title=Time and Place: Angela Hartnett|work=The Times |location=UK |date=9 September 2007|access-date=7 April 2008 }}{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/house-and-home/interiors/my-home-chef-angela-harnett-458547.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110506064223/http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/house-and-home/interiors/my-home-chef-angela-harnett-458547.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=6 May 2011|title=My Home: Chef Angela Harnett|work=The Independent |location=UK |date=25 July 2007|accessdate=7 April 2008 | first=Danielle | last=Demetriou}} She owned a Jack Russell called Alfie that she rescued from Battersea Dogs Home in 2007,{{cite news|title=MYSPACE ANGELA HARTNETT, CHEF|publisher=The Observer Magazine|date=30 August 2009}} and also has a beagle named Otis that was previously owned by her sister.{{citation needed|date=June 2020}} She spends a holiday every year in Bardi,{{citation needed|date=June 2011}} the town from where most of the Welsh-based Italian families can trace their roots.

Hartnett is an avid football fan and supports Arsenal F.C. based in North London.

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• {{IMDb name|id=1689885|name=Angela Hartnett}}
• [https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/chef_biogs/h.shtml?angela_hartnett Bio at BBC Food]
• [http://goodfood.uktv.co.uk/search/?q=angela+hartnett&page=1 Bio at UK TV Food]
• [http://www.thestaffcanteen.com/featured-chef/chef-patron-angela-hartnett-murano-london/ interview with Angela Hartnett]

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