Rising Star Chef James Hackney of Twenty-Eight Atlantic - Biography
Chatham, MA
James Hackney had an early, enviable introduction to the culinary world. A native of Leicestershire, England, Hackney first encountered cuisine through the lens of his parents’ Garden Hotel, a charming English countryside inn where farm-to-table was a way of life long before it was a catchphrase within the culinary profession. Reasonably enamored by a life in cuisine, and having worked his way from dishwasher to prep cook with his parents, Hackney completed his culinary education at Southfields College in Leicester.
Hackney then moved on to award-winning country-house hotel Stapleford Park before hopping the pond to work at Blantyre in Lenox, Massachusetts, also traveling down to Florida to work at La Vieille Maison and Charlie Palmer’s Aquaterra, in the off-season. Hackney next became chef de cuisine at Boston’s renowned L’Espalier. Now at the helm of Twenty-Eight Atlantic at Wequassett Resort and Golf Club, where he earned a 2014 StarChefs.com Coastal New England Risign Stars Award, Hackney is firmly ensconced on American shores, fusing his British sensibility with the seasons of coastal New England.
Air Dried Apple Street Farm Chicken with Chanterelles, Pumpkin Agnolotti, and Lobster Emulsion
Poached Sole, Orleans Mussels, Black Quinoa, Watercress Broth, Black Truffles, and Herbs
Interview with Chef James Hackney of L’Espalier - Boston, MA
Interview with Coastal New England Rising Star Chef James Hackney of Twenty-Eight Atlantic at Wequassett Resort and Golf Club – East Harwich, MA

Rising Star Chef James Hackney
@Wequassett- Twenty-Eight Atlantic
2173 Massachusetts 28
Chatham, MA 02633
(508) 430-3000
www.wequassett.com/d.. - formerly of L'Espalier
774 Boylston Street
Boston, MA 02199
www.lespalier.com..