Award-winning restaurateur and BBC star Russell Norman has died aged 57 following a brief sickness in hospital, his enterprise companion has introduced.
Mr Norman died surrounded by his household and associates on Thursday, reportedly after a ’cardiac arrest’ – and simply weeks after his fourth cookbook Brutto was revealed.
Asserting the information was his enterprise companion Richard Beatty, with whom Mr Norman co-founded the favored London eating places Spuntino and Polpo.
Calling him his ’greatest buddy’, Mr Beatty stated: ’It’s with the best disappointment I announce the lack of my greatest buddy Russell Norman.
’After a brief battle in hospital, he died surrounded by household and buddy.’
BBC star and award-winning restaurateur Russell Norman has died aged 57
Russell Norman starred on the BBC2 present The Restaurant Man
Mr Beatty added: ’Russell is survived by his spouse and three youngsters, I ask that you just respect the privateness of his household, associates and colleagues presently.’
Mr Norman died following a cardiac arrest, the Normal reported.
Tributes have poured in, together with from restaurant critic Jay Rayner who hailed Mr Norman was ’some of the gifted of restaurateurs’.
He stated: ’So sorry to listen to of the demise, far too younger, of Russell Norman.
’He was some of the gifted of restaurateurs, a terrific author and an terrible lot of enjoyable to be round.
’He very a lot lived life his personal means. My ideas are along with his household and associates.’
Mr Norman was lauded because the ’new king of Soho eating’ when he shortly established himself within the London restaurant scene in 2012.
He revealed a number of cookbooks, the primary of which was known as Polpo and offered 250,000 copies and gained Waterstones E book of the 12 months in the identical yr.
The restauranter offered a six-part documentary for BBC2 in 2014 known as The Restaurant Man.
In 2016, his second ebook Spuntino gained the Guild Meals Writers Award for greatest meals and journey ebook.
His third ebook Venice: 4 Seasons of Dwelling Cooking was launched in 2018. He stated of the expertise of writing it that he had ’exiled’ himself to essentially the most stunning metropolis on this planet to ’study to prepare dinner like a 90-year-old Venetian granny’, Restaurant On-line reported.
He opened restaurant Trattoria BRUTTO in 2021 and it grew to become an prompt smash hit with full bookings and an extended ready record. It is going to stay open and be run by his widow Jules and son Ollie.
Mr Norman is survived by a spouse and three youngsters.