Colin Fassnidge calls time on The Castlereigh
Celebrity chef Colin Fassnidge has come to realise that you can’t do everything, all the time.
The My Kitchen Rules judge’s lightbulb moment will see him step back from his popular Sydney restaurant, The Castlereigh.
Business partners Clayton Ries and Darren Ong will carry on the business.
As well as working in the restaurant Fassnidge can be seen on My Kitchen Rules and Better Homes and Gardens, Food Travel Series. He is also working on an undisclosed project which puts him on the road in a caravan.
Between those projects and trying to spend time with his wife and children, time was thin.
“I’ve learned (that) as much as you think you can do everything, you can’t.
Something has to give... And I’m getting old,” he said on social media.
“It’s the first time in a lifetime that I haven’t had a restaurant to run for a year.
“Clayton and Darren will take that over and do what they do, what they’ve always done anyway, and it’ll be as good as it’s always been.
“Wishing my friends every success as I disappear into the mist for a year.”
Ries called his time with Fassnidge “an amazing seven years.”
“With all the projects they are working on, a decision has been made to divide and conquer,” he said.
“Thank you for everything.”
Ries and Ong will now work with chefs Peter Boyd and Ashok Tamang on a new The Castlereagh menu.
Jonathan Jackson, 5th February 2024
