If you want to tuck into food from chefs Peter Gilmore or Lennox Hastie, you’ll now need to book at Quay or Firedoor, following the closure of the Fix platform, set up last yearto deliver the chefs’ meals direct to the home.

A joint venture between the high-brow Fink Group (Quay, Firedoor) and Stix, the catering outfit owned by chef David Allison, Fix has served its last home-delivered supper.

Allison tells Good Food the boom in COVID-peak restaurant-level food for the home dipped as more people returned to restaurants.

However, demand for regular everyday meals and staples on the platform remained strong before they pulled the plug on the start-up this week.

“We had super-chefs on board and the quality of the food was great,” Allison says.

Allison has also trimmed his own empire: “I had an epiphany, and want some time to do some other things with my life, so we served our last customers at Stix in Marrickville on the weekend.”

Long-held plans to open a cafe in Hunters Hills have been shelved.

He will retain a hand in Sydney food. After a break, with extended travel on his agenda, Allison will focus his energy on his Hawkesbury farm, which produces restaurant-level produce.

A spokeswoman for Fink Group says while they remain proud of the Fix platform “we made the difficult decision to dissolve the Fink x STIX partnership this week”.

“While both parties have a great deal of respect for each other, and for what we hoped to achieve together, we made the decision to take a step back and take a different path forward,” she says.