- Australia’s brunch king died in London, aged 54
- He was surrounded by family at hospital bedside
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World-renowned Australian chef Bill Granger has died at the age of 54, his family have revealed in a heartbreaking Instagram post.
He died ‘peacefully’ in hospital surrounded by his family.
‘He will be deeply missed by all, with his loss most profoundly felt by his adored family, who are grateful for all the love and support that has been given,’ the Instagram post read.
‘It is with great sadness that the family of Bill Granger announce he has passed away on 25th December at the age of 54.
‘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.’
World-renowned Australian chef Bill Granger (pictured) has died at the age of 54
Born in Melbourne, Australia, Bill was a self-taught cook who became a celebrated global restaurateur and food writer with a career spanning over 30 years.
In 1999, he and his wife Natalie began a professional partnership that launched the business globally. Together they built a successful business that today has 19 restaurants across Sydney, London, Greater Tokyo, Osaka, Fukuoka and Seoul.
Bill authored 14 cookbooks, made five TV series and most recently was honoured with the Medal of the Order of Australia in January 2023.
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.
The post added: ‘He will be deeply missed by all, with his loss most profoundly felt by his adored family, who are grateful for all the love and support that has been given.’
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Tributes flowed for Granger from fellow celebrity chefs including Nigella Lawson and Jamie Oliver.
‘I’m heartbroken to hear this. So cruel. Deepest love to N, E, I and B,’ Nigella wrote.
Jamie Oliver, 47, wrote he was ‘devastated’ by the news of Granger’s death and described the chef as a ‘wonderful human’ who made good food.
‘This is devastating news, I’m so sad to hear this, what a guy he was …. a wonderful human, kind calm soul,’ Jamie wrote.
‘I admired everything he represented in food. I remember the first time I met him many moons ago he couldn’t have been nicer and his food so good.
‘Sending so much love to all his family. Rest in peace, Bill, he will be sorely missed jox xx.’
Granger dropped out of art school at the age of 24 to open his first ‘Bills’ restaurant in Sydney’s Darlinghurst (pictured) in 1992
The self-taught cook dropped out of art school at the age of 24 and opened his first ‘Bills’ restaurant in Sydney’s Darlinghurst in 1992.
Granger then went on to own a string of restaurants around the world – including in Japan, Hawaii and London – and was a celebrated food writer and television chef.
The chef was credited with inventing a slew of breakfast favourites including avocado on toast – which he revealed was a dish that started out of necessity.
Granger put the now-famous snack on the menu of his Darlinghurst cafe, in Sydney’s inner suburbs, in 1993 after his strict trading hours of 7am to 4pm meant he had to open for breakfast to pay the rent.
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