The up-and-coming chef owned Fleurette, a restaurant in Rangoon Road he opened in 2020.
SINGAPORE - Up-and-coming chef Tariq Helou died unexpectedly on April 25. He was 29. The cause of his death is still unknown.
The food reflected his heritage and training, and this was how he described it: “It’s like a pie. The crust is French, the cream topping is Japanese and the filling is local.”Chef Helou garnered 1.62 million searches on Google in 2023 in the study, which looked at the number of Google searches for more than 1,700 chefs around the world from November 2022 to October 2023.
Those in the food community were stunned by news of his death. A restaurant publicist who had just started working with Fleurette said: “I spoke to him a few days ago and everything was on track. I am so shocked. I cannot believe it.” French chef Julien Royer, 42, of three-Michelin-starred Odette at the National Gallery, dined at Fleurette and said he “loved it”.
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