LONDON — Invoice Granger, the Australian chef, meals author and restaurant proprietor who introduced Aussie-style meals to worldwide capitals from London to Seoul, has died. He was 54.

Granger‘s household stated on social media Tuesday that the chef died in a hospital in London on Christmas Day.

“A devoted husband and father, Invoice died peacefully in hospital along with his spouse Natalie Elliott and three daughters, Edie, Inès and Bunny, at his bedside of their adopted house of London,” the household assertion stated. It gave no additional particulars.

Born in 1969 in Melbourne, Australia, Granger was a self-taught prepare dinner who launched a chef’s profession over three a long time after dropping out of artwork college. He opened his first restaurant in 1993 within the Sydney suburb of Darlinghurst, the place he quickly turned identified for his breakfasts served at a central communal desk.

He and his spouse then launched their restaurant enterprise globally, opening greater than a dozen eating places and cafes below his title in London, Seoul, and Tokyo, Osaka and Fukuoka in Japan. Their relaxed ambiance and his signature dishes, like avocado on sourdough toast, creamy scrambled eggs and ricotta hotcakes, proved a success with diners worldwide.

“He will likely be remembered because the ‘King of Breakfast,’ for making unpretentious meals into one thing particular stuffed with sunshine and for spurring the expansion of Australian casual and communal consuming all over the world,” his household wrote.

Granger wrote 14 cookbooks, his household stated, and was identified for presenting on varied cookery reveals. He additionally appeared as a visitor decide on MasterChef Australia. Earlier this yr, he was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia for his companies to tourism and hospitality.

Actors Hugh Jackman and Jason Donovan, each fellow Australians, had been amongst these paying tribute to Granger Wednesday, with Donovan describing the chef as a “ray of Aussie sunshine”.