Angela Hartnett is certainly one of Britain’s best-loved cooks. Her fine-dining Italian restaurant in Mayfair, Murano, has held a Michelin star since 2009; her extra laid-back Cafe Murano now occupies three prime London places. Lodge lovers will know her because the literal identify behind Lime Wood‘s Hartnett Holder & Co, and the figurative one behind Portetta‘s Cucina Angelina. Final 12 months she was awarded an OBE for her admirable service to the hospitality business through the pandemic.
As if that wasn’t sufficient, she nonetheless carves out time for presenting duties too, sometimes on TV, however most notably on the podcast Dish which she co-hosts with the DJ Nick Grimshaw, inviting the likes of Stanley Tucci, Candice Brathwaite, and Paul Feig for some raucous dinner-party chat. On the eve of its new sequence we stopped by Murano (in the midst of a makeover to mark its fifteenth anniversary) for some gentle grilling…
Favorite museum/gallery
The Nationwide Portrait Gallery.
Guide that formed you
JD Salinger’s Franny and Zooey.
Accent/language that turns you on
Italian/Scottish.
Favorite cocktail
A negroni.
Consolation meals
A roast hen/salted crisp sandwich.
Most memorable meal
At restaurant ValCeno on Christmas Eve 1999 with all my household in Italy.
Worst vacation hangover
With associates Paul and Zena within the south of France. We went on a ship the following day and I used to be so ailing I made a decision to leap off and swim to the restaurant we have been going for lunch at. (Plus each time I am going on vacation with my finest associates Adam and Tieu.)
Greatest classic/vintage discover
A classic mirror and champagne glasses from someplace on New York’s Sullivan Road.
Structure that awes you
Venice. Each time.
Interiors you envy
The Pig hotels. I like Judy Hutson’s fashion and style.
Homewares you hunt whereas travelling
Kitchenware, vintage copper pots, and madeleine trays.
Design decade you are feeling at house in
I might like to have been born in F Scott Fitzgerald’s Nineteen Twenties.
Go-to spa remedy
Something Sarah Chapman.
How do you unwind?
At house with the canines, or out strolling the canines.
Most regrettable vacation purchases
I don’t have any (until you rely the hangovers).
Your must-pack outfit
Shorts and flip-flops.
Metropolis you’d transfer to
San Francisco.
Strangest lodge expertise
Once I known as reception to complain about an alarm going off then realising it was the fireplace alarm and all of us needed to vacate.
Greatest place you’ve ever swum
Norway in ice-cold water. I simply love this kind of swimming.
Responsible pleasure
Rosé and playing cards.
Pool or ocean
Ocean.
Outline love in three phrases
Neil Donald Borthwick.
Angela was photographed at Murano by Hannah Dace. Sequence 4 of Dish, from Waitrose & Companions, is out now on all podcast platforms.
