Murano

Welcome to Murano. Angela Hartnett's Michelin starred modern Italian restaurant in Mayfair.

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Put flour on work top or in a mixing bowl Add salt Whisk egg Add olive oil Bit by bit incorporate the egg with flour using your hands.

1x cloves garlic sliced thinly 50ml white wine 1/4 red chilli chopped 4 baby artichokes peeled and sliced Handful of parsley chopped Pinch of salt and pepper Take a saucepan, add a splash of veg oil.

1x baby fennel 1x Granny Smith apple 1/2 bunch chives 10x walnuts broken 20g Maille walnut mustard 10g grated fresh horseradish 20g crème fraiche 3g grated ginger Squeeze of lime juice 50ml balsamic vinegar Extra virgin olive oil Take mackerel fillets, de skin one and freeze it for 24 hrs.

Take your mackerel fillet and blow torch skin side for 30 secs or using a hot pan with a tsp of veg oil fry quickly on a high heat skin side down.

4x heritage tomatoes quartered 100g bread ( sourdough or focaccia) ripped 100g burrata 2x bunch basil Salt and pepper Drizzle of extra virgin olive oil Drizzle of balsamic vinegar 5x dried black olives crushed 2 bunch picked basil, blanch in salty boiling water for 30 secs.

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Murano - London Restaurant Reviews | Hardens

An elegant and refined, if perhaps rather anonymous, addition to the Gordon Ramsay empire, on the former Mayfair site of Zen Central (RIP); Angela Hartnett's Italian-influenced menu is the highlight of an impressive across-the-board performance.

That's not to say that the other restaurants have necessarily been bad, just that there's been nothing outstanding about them.

Especially as Ms Hartnett's PR machine is always banging on about her Italian heritage, it's something of a surprise to find that the menu is, at most, 'half-Italian' (the remaining bit being largely French).

For the record we enjoyed lunch for two, with a couple of glasses of wine and unrudgingly-brought tap water, for about £85.

Like all other aspects of the operation, it seems well tuned to the Mayfair market at which the establishment so elegantly aims.

Murano (restaurant) - Wikipedia

Murano was purchased outright from Ramsay by head chef Hartnett with the handover taking place in October 2010.

Murano was opened in August 2008 by Gordon Ramsay and Angela Hartnett.

[4] Murano was purchased outright from Ramsay by head chef Hartnett with the handover taking place on 8 October 2010.

[2] This star has been retained since then, and in 2014, Murano was again rated one star in the Michelin Guide.

Rating Murano with four out of five stars, a reviewer for the magazine Time Out wrote in an October 2012 review that she enjoyed the restaurant's "perfectly proportioned" crab tortelli.

Murano restaurant review 2008 August London | Italian Cuisine ...

The wine list had excellent growers but was heavily marked up (69% gross profit before counting the service charge is actually very high).

The texture was very good, the rice having absorbed the stock well, the pesto adding some flavour but not overwhelming the dish (16/20).

This was better than a pleasant but rather simplistic pressed rabbit mosaic that was crying out for a chutney, and a rather odd dish of grilled foie gras and sweet and sour tomatoes.

Dessert included a very enjoyable zabaglione with figs (15/20), while my fellow diners tried frozen panna cotta with black cherry compote and grated pistachio, as well as excellent English strawberries with white balsamic jelly and mascarpone sorbet (though they did not need a pointless pouring of dry ice over them, a waste of the special effects budget in my view).

A sort of post dessert of assorted ice creams was an odd mix, with classics like strawberry, pear and blood orange sharing a plate with basil, a quite sharp blackcurrant, banana ice cream and a thoroughly unpleasant combination of chocolate with black olive (El Bulli has a lot to answer for).

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Murano: Fine-dining Italian with a free spirit | London Evening ...

For the latest in our Famous London Restaurants series we visit Angela Hartnett’s Michelin-starred Mayfair classic, Murano.

While the quality of dishes and attentive service leave no doubt about the restaurant’s fine dining credentials, it breaks the Mayfair mould with a gregarious informality of presentation and greedy approach to portion sizes.

The a la carte menu gives you the chance to choose two, three, four or five courses from a line-up of winners that includes a tremendously rich tasting yet still light rabbit tortellini with sage and lemon; a delicate saffron risotto with razor clams; a meaty slab of hake imbued with with sunshine via an accompanying salad of crab, asparagus, blood orange and basil; and a tender rack of lamb paired with crispy shoulder and creamy burrata.

Some splendid by-the-glass options start at as little as £6, while at the opposite end of the spectrum a Barbaresco from Piedmont at £18 is an absolute treat of deep earthy, dark fruit and almost truffle-like flavours.

The atmosphere Just as the menu does, Murano manages to neatly balance a sense of occasion and fine-dining formality (yes, there are white tablecloths) with a free-spirited and almost bacchanalian atmosphere.

London restaurant review: Murano - Telegraph

Luckily for Gordon Ramsay, Angela Hartnett remains committed to their culinary union and the other night I bowled along to the christening of their latest creation, Murano.

As well as being Ramsay's mild-mannered partner in the TV series Hell's Kitchen , Hartnett was chef-patron under him at the Connaught, hitherto about as welcoming to women as White's.

After 18 months out of a kitchen, Hartnett has returned to a tiny, 60-seat Italian-influenced restaurant in Mayfair - owned by Ramsay.

Clearly Hartnett doesn't remain with Ramsay for his hands-on support, as a waiter reveals that Gordon hasn't even seen Murano yet.

I concede Diana's point that her one giant Cromer crab tortellini - a favourite Ramsay dish - with spring onion, chilli and Amalfi lemon is less exciting, but such a dish is designed to comfort, not startle.

Restaurant review: Murano | Life and style | The Guardian

In an overdue bid to plug the gap in national life that has been left unfilled since the death of Marjorie Proops, I begin today with an answer to a reader's letter I've taken the liberty of making up: Leave him, love.

The recipient of this unwanted advice is Angela Hartnett, whose new restaurant, Murano, leaves an aftertaste I can't recall before.

My starter - from the cheapo set lunch at £25 for three courses - was a gorgeously autumnal, saffron-hued pumpkin and sautéed wild mushroom soup that had a potent Parmesan kick, was alluringly velvety in texture and pulled off the rare win double of real delicacy and huge depth of flavour.

Apricot soufflé had the edge over my pear tart with tonka bean custard (the bean, a research mission to the kitchen discovered, is used only to infuse), thanks to the alarmingly sensuous way in which a waitress plunged a spoon into the soufflé before inserting a small scoop of amaretto ice cream.

I would love it, really love it, if Angela Hartnett followed Marcus Wareing's lead, or even left Gordon on friendly terms, and opened her own place, because cooking of this quality deserves a setting that reflects the personality of the cook, rather than the fiscal requirements of a public company and its front man.