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Alain Ducasse’s Michelin-star Hong Kong restaurant shuts amid coronavirus pandemic and protests
- Rech by Alain Ducasse at the InterContinental Hong Kong is one of city’s first fine-dining restaurants to shut amid downturn caused by unrest, disease outbreak
- Opened at the Tsim Sha Tsui hotel in 2017, the restaurant specialised in serving imported French seafood. At least 20 staff reported to have lost their jobs
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Eight months of anti-government protests and the recent coronavirus pandemic that caused a drop in customers have led to the closure of Michelin-starred Hong Kong restaurant Rech by Alain Ducasse.
The one-Michelin-star restaurant confirmed to the Post on Wednesday that that was its last day of operations.
The Hong Kong Hotel Employees Union said all the staff were told on Wednesday afternoon they would be laid off. Hong Kong-based Chinese-language news website HK01 reported that between 20 and 30 staff were affected by the closure.
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On Wednesday, evening calls to the restaurant at the InterContinental Hong Kong hotel in Tsim Sha Tsui went unanswered.
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Seafood-focused Rech by Alain Ducasse, which boasted stunning views of Victoria Harbour, opened in the spring of 2017, replacing another of the French chef’s restaurants, Spoon by Alain Ducasse.
The Hong Kong restaurant, led by executive chef Guillaume Katola since February last year, was the first international outpost of Rech, which opened in Paris in 1925 and was taken over by Ducasse in 2007.
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