Australian chef David Thompson receives prestigious international honour
One of Australia’s best-known chefs has been honoured with a prestigious lifetime achievement award.
One of Australia’s best-known chefs on the international culinary stage, the Thai expert David Thompson, has been honoured with a prestigious lifetime achievement award.
The award comes from the academy of voters behind the annual Asia’s 50 Best Restaurants awards, due to be announced in Bangkok February 28.
Thompson, the Sydney-raised chef acknowledged as one of the world’s leading exponents of, and authorities on Thai food has lived abroad, in London and Bangkok, for the past 12 years. In 2014, the restaurant he runs for the Como Hotels group in Bangkok — Nahm — was named Asia’s best by the 50 Best list, and is frequently included in the international World’s 50 Best Restaurants list.
Thompson and his backers have just opened their second (after Singapore) Long Chim restaurant at Perth’s State Buildings. You can check out the review in the Weekend Australian HERE.
The chef is due to open a Sydney Long Chim this year, although while a site has been chosen, details are a well-kept secret.
Acknowledging the accolade, Thompson said: “Usually I am rather embarrassed by awards but to receive it something as significant as this, Voted for by my peers in the industry, does indeed make me proud and grateful. I still have the same joy in cooking as I had when I first began. It is a timeless pleasure for me, so I feel very lucky.”
Other Australians expected to be recognised by the prestigious Asia’s 50 Best list this year include Tetsuya Wakuda, of Singapore’s Waku Ghin, and David Pynt, also resident in Singapore, where he cooks at Burnt Ends.