Owner, Chef Joseph Moretti

Joseph Moretti was born in Venice in 1773. Joseph Moretti came to England at some time before 1799 (he married an English woman Jane Bargman in London that year - John Baptiste Pagliano married sister Sarah the year before who gave birth to Charles) and he came from either Venice or the Veneto region. He ran an 'Italian Eating House, just off Leicester Square from 1803-1805 and may have gone to work with his brother in law John Baptiste Pagliano at the Hotel Newton and Sabloniere. Died 1861. Children: Francis (b 1800), Joseph (1809), Jane (1810), Lazarus (1817), usually known as George, and Charles (1820).