NETJETS EU VOLUME 16 2021

GOURMET GUIDE
THE CHEF
Angela Hartnett
HOW HAS THE LONDON FOOD SCENE
CHANGED SINCE YOU’VE BEEN
COOKING HERE? For the better! I think
London is up there with Tokyo and New
York, perhaps even ahead of Paris. It’s
one of the best cities in the world for food
right now.
WHERE DO YOU LIKE TO EAT ON A
NIGHT OFF? Pip Lacey, my old head
chef at Murano, opened her own place in
King’s Cross a couple of years ago called
Hicce. It’s really good.
WHERE ARE YOU LOOKING FORWARD
TO EATING IN THE NEXT FEW
MONTHS? I’m really excited about
AngloThai, from the people who opened
KOL and Casa do Frango. Chef John
Chantarasak is a real talent and it’s great
to see him getting a permanent home.
Angela Hartnett is the chef/proprietor of
Murano, in Mayfair, and Café Murano,
with sites in Covent Garden, St James’s
and Bermondsey. muranolondon.com
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encyclopedia. Save room for the lavishly laden
dessert trolley.
Meanwhile, in Knightsbridge on the ground
floor of the Bulgari, Sette by Scarpetta
(settelondon.co.uk) is another hotel restaurant
with a New York pedigree. On the ground floor of
the Bulgari, Knightsbridge, it is a London version
of Manhattan’s popular NoMad Italian, with a
separate entrance on Knightsbridge Green. The
kitchen’s elegant and fragrant interpretation of
spaghetti with tomato and basil is reason enough
to visit. There’s also a very smart bar for a negroni
or two.
There’s a cool bar, too, at Los Mochis
(losmochis.co.uk), Notting Hill Gate, stocked with
a huge range of small-batch tequilas, mezcals,
and sakes. The food follows suit: a similarly heady
fusion of Mexican and Japanese, with tostaditos
and tacos jostling with sashimi and maki rolls on
the inventive, Californian-tinged menu.
Arros QD (arrosqd.com), the paella specialist
on Eastcastle Street that opened in 2019, bears
the initials of three Michelin-starred chef Quique
Dacosta. His less buttoned-up London outpost
has a recently revamped menu that includes 10
different paellas, as well as Cornish tomahawk
steaks, tomatoes dressed with ajo blanco, and
chargrilled iberico presa (pork shoulder) with
Jerusalem artichoke.
More evidence of the trend for light, inventive,
modern Indian cuisine can be found at Pali
Hill, ex-River Café chef Avinash Shashidhara’s
cheerfully kitsch Fitzrovia restaurant. His menu
draws inspiration from India and beyond:
Flatbreads are smothered in wild mushrooms,
chilli, Tuscan truffle, and fontina; pork spare ribs
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