Chef and restaurateur Kylie Kwong has confirmed she is going to exit the restaurant enterprise after 24 years with the closure of Fortunate Kwong in June.
The acclaimed culinary expertise opened the South Eveleigh eatery in 2021 after closing Billy Kwong again in 2019, which she opened again in 2000 with the late Invoice Granger.
Kwong took to Instagram to announce the shock information, which has triggered an outpouring of assist from her friends.
“It has definitely been a vibrant and life-changing few many years,” she wrote. “For all the numerous challenges that include being within the hospitality trade, I take into account myself lucky for I’ve had way more optimistic experiences than damaging.”
Kwong has made the choice to start out a contemporary chapter as soon as Fortunate Kwong closes within the coming weeks, with the chef persevering with to pursue her “lifelong ardour for meals, artwork, tradition, and connection.
“By the lens of meals and interconnectedness, I want to place all my power, focus, and time into serving to share and amplify different individuals’s tales, significantly the essential voices of First Nations individuals and our wealthy multicultural communities.”
The chef group has taken to the feedback part to assist Kwong and her subsequent transfer.
“Courageous strikes ahead are all the time essentially the most rewarding,” wrote Christine Manfield, with Dessert Masters decide Melissa Leong thanking Kwong “for being a trail-blazer and mould-breaker for the trade, and for girls with concepts”.
Nigella Lawson wrote: “I really feel a pang realizing the subsequent time I come again to Sydney there received’t be your restaurant to make a beeline for, however I’m so blissful so that you can have the time to do what’s best for you. You’ve earned the precise, that’s for positive.”
Fortunate Kwong will proceed to function as standard for lunch Monday to Friday.
“I need to farewell these final 24 years on an absolute excessive,” mentioned Kwong. “I’ll then take a while out which is crucial throughout a interval of main transformation.”
