English celebrity chef Heston Blumenthal will close The Fat Duck in the UK while he brings the Michelin-starred eatery to Melbourne.
Blumenthal will open The Fat Duck at Crown Resort in Melbourne for six months from February next year.
After that it will return to the UK and the Crown restaurant will become known as Dinner by Heston Blumenthal.
"We are going to shut The Fat Duck and bring it to Melbourne," Blumenthal told a media conference in Melbourne on Monday.
It will be his first international restaurant and Blumenthal will bring his whole Fat Duck team with him for the relocation.
The Fat Duck's executive head Chef Ashley Palmer-Watts will open Dinner by Heston Blumenthal after its return to the UK.
It's understood to be modelled on Dinner by Heston Blumenthal at London's Mandarin Oriental at Hyde Park.
That restaurant was temporarily closed in February after an outbreak of the same vomiting virus that forced the closure of the Fat Duck five years ago.
Blumenthal shut the Fat Duck restaurant in Bray, Berkshire, in 2009 after it was hit by an outbreak of novovirus that infected more than 500 people.
