LONDON — Bill Granger, the Australian chef, meals author and restaurant proprietor who introduced Aussie-style meals to worldwide capitals from London to Seoul, has died. He was 54.
Granger‘s family said on social media Tuesday that the chef died in a hospital in London on Christmas Day.
“A dedicated husband and father, Bill died peacefully in hospital with his wife Natalie Elliott and three daughters, Edie, Inès and Bunny, at his bedside in their adopted home of London,” the family statement said. It gave no further details.
Born in 1969 in Melbourne, Australia, Granger was a self-taught cook who launched a chef’s profession over three many years after dropping out of artwork college. He opened his first restaurant in 1993 within the Sydney suburb of Darlinghurst, the place he quickly turned identified for his breakfasts served at a central communal desk.
He and his spouse then launched their restaurant enterprise globally, opening greater than a dozen eating places and cafes beneath his title in London, Seoul, and Tokyo, Osaka and Fukuoka in Japan. Their relaxed ambiance and his signature dishes, like avocado on sourdough toast, creamy scrambled eggs and ricotta hotcakes, proved successful with diners worldwide.
“He will be remembered as the ‘King of Breakfast,’ for making unpretentious food into something special filled with sunshine and for spurring the growth of Australian informal and communal eating around the world,” his household wrote.
Granger wrote 14 cookbooks, his household stated, and was identified for presenting on numerous cookery reveals. He additionally appeared as a visitor choose on MasterChef Australia. Earlier this 12 months, he was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia for his companies to tourism and hospitality.
Actors Hugh Jackman and Jason Donovan, each fellow Australians, had been amongst these paying tribute to Granger Wednesday, with Donovan describing the chef as a “ray of Aussie sunshine”.
“What a guy he was, a wonderful human, kind calm soul,” celeb chef Jamie Oliver wrote on social media. “I admired everything he represented in food.”
