She is the Michelin-starred chef known for her tasting menus costing £115 per head, while he's the Brexit campaigner whose pubs serve slap-up dinners that still leave you change from a £10 note.
And now Angela Hartnett, owner of Mayfair trattoria Murano, has been accused of 'terrible snobbery' after attacking Tim Martin's Wetherspoon chain for 'destroying' communities.
Hartnett, 52, a regular on television shows such as MasterChef and Great British Menu, admires her own fashionable corner of the East End for its variety of international culinary options.
'I live in East London and don't need to leave my doorstep to get great Japanese, great Indian, great fish and chips,' she boasts. 'Restaurants have become very local; people go to their local restaurant.'
However, she claims that cut-price pub chains such as Wetherspoon are squeezing independent venues out of existence.
She is the Michelin-starred chef known for her tasting menus costing £115 per head, while he's the Brexit campaigner whose pubs serve slap-up dinners that still leave you change from a £10 note. And now Angela Hartnett (right), owner of Mayfair trattoria Murano, has been accused of 'terrible snobbery' after attacking Tim Martin (left)'s Wetherspoon chain for 'destroying' communities
'Pubs are equally as important, and I think pubs are going to suffer far more than restaurants after lockdown because pubs generally were on their way down,' she says. 'Companies like Wetherspoon have destroyed that community — the lovely pub on the corner — and I think they will suffer.'
Hartnett, a protegee of Gordon Ramsay, offers such specialities as turbot with moscato veloute and lobster and scallop tortellini at Murano.
Her comments have enraged Martin, 66, whose spokesman points out that the UK's 925 Wetherspoon pubs are often the centre of their communities.
'Around 95 per cent of Wetherspoon pubs are outside the Central London area where Angela lives and works,' he says.
'Many of these areas don't have 'great Japanese' on the doorstep and Wetherspoon pubs, as their success indicates, are popular in local communities.'
A pub regular says: 'I wonder if Hartnett has ever been to a Wetherspoon? It just sounds like terrible snobbery.'
Bill Nighy, who's busy shooting Nobel Prize winner Kazuo Ishiguro's film Ikiru, is bemused by the relaxation of Covid rules. '
Apparently, we were allowed to cautiously hug,' the actor, 71, says. 'How does one do that? I've never done a cautious hug.'
Boris Johnson might have had a jolly time in Cornwall at the G7, but the summit has caused dreadful problems for our broadcasters.
Not only did the BBC's Andrew Marr catch Covid, despite having had two doses of the vaccine, but, I hear, its political editor Laura Kuenssberg and Sky's Beth Rigby are having to self-isolate at home.
Virus cases in the local area are said to have increased by up to 2,450 per cent since the expensive jamboree.
Little Women's Florence wows in a little dress
Little Women star Florence Pugh enjoyed wearing a very little dress as she returned to London to promote her new film, Black Widow
Little Women star Florence Pugh enjoyed wearing a very little dress as she returned to London to promote her new film, Black Widow.
The 25-year-old from Oxford lives in LA with her
