Angela Hartnett, Administration Member of the Order of the British Empire is an English chef.
Background
Angela Hartnett was born in Kent to Patrick Hartnett, an Irish sailor in the Merchant Navy and Giuliana, a Welsh mother whose parents had migrated from Bardi in Italy to the Welsh town of Ferndale. Her father died when she was eight years old. Her mother Giuliana moved the young family (older brother and younger sister) to Upminster to be closer to both sets of grandparents, where they were brought up by their Italian maternal grandmother whilst Giuliana worked long hours as a dinner lady and nanny.
Education
Anglia Ruskin University.
Career
A protégée of Gordon Ramsay who was made famous by her appearances on British television, she was Chef-Patron at Angela Hartnett at The Connaught in London. Currently, she is Chef Patron for Murano restaurant and the York & Albany public in London. 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.
Starting relatively late in her chosen career path, she learnt on the job at a hotel in Cambridge, then at the Sandy Lane Hotel restaurant in Barbados.
In 1994, she returned to the United Kingdom, 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 Gordon Ramsay"s Verre in Dubai. In 2004 she netted her first Michelin star.
In early 2007, she was awarded an Administration Member of the Order of the British Empire for Services to the Hospitality Industry.
Also in 2007 she opened Cielo, a Ramsay Group restaurant in Boca Raton. She made her first television appearance in the first series of ITV1"s Hell"s Kitchen. In 2015, Angela took part in final episode, and overlooked the final task for MasterChef United Kingdom. Just before The Connaught Hotel closed in mid-2007, Hartnett published her first book "Cucina: Three Generations of Italian Family Cooking;".
While it was closed she was seen on British Broadcasting Corporation"s Kitchen Criminals and Take On The Takeaway.
Gordon Ramsay Holdings Limited 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. In September 2008, Hartnett opened the York and Albany restaurant at the top of Parkway, Camden Town, close to Regent"s Park.
Personal life
She owns a Jack Russell called Alfie who she rescued from Battersea Dogs Home in 2004. She spends a holiday every year in Bardi, the town from where most of the Welsh-based Italian families can trace their roots.