Susur Lee, who’s closing the highly acclaimed Susur restaurant tomorrow—and opening a new spot inside the Thompson hotel on Manhattan’s Lower East Side this fall—will reopen the King Street West space at the end of July. “I’m renovating and opening a new concept under a different name," Lee said in an interview Thursday. "Then I go to New York. So in two months I’m opening two restaurants."
News of Susur's closure has been much talked about since Toronto Life reported in April that Lee planned to shut the restaurant, which opened to rave reviews in 2000. Lee blamed his “obsessive compulsive personality” for his choice to launch two eateries in such a short time frame. “I’m not getting very much sleep trying to do so many things at once,” said Lee, who also created the menu for the second annual Innovators’ Ball held at the Ontario Science Centre last night.
News of Susur's closure has been much talked about since Toronto Life reported in April that Lee planned to shut the restaurant, which opened to rave reviews in 2000. Lee blamed his “obsessive compulsive personality” for his choice to launch two eateries in such a short time frame. “I’m not getting very much sleep trying to do so many things at once,” said Lee, who also created the menu for the second annual Innovators’ Ball held at the Ontario Science Centre last night.
