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Celebrated Canadian chef, Susur Lee, moves his East-West fusion cuisine to New York this fall with plans to open with a restaurant inside the new Thompson hotel on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Mr. Lee says that he just couldn’t turn down the opportunity. He will close his Toronto restaurant, Susur, which opened to rave reviews in 2000, at the end of May but will continue the more relaxed eatery Lee, located right next door.

The 50-year-old chef told the Globe, "If I don’t change, I’ll get old. I always love the challenge. I always love to do new things. I’m not sad at all."

The Hong Kong born chef, who moved to Canada almost three decades ago, is generally credited with developing a new form of cuisine that blends Chinese with French cooking. His renowned tasting menu, featuring about a dozen items, serves heavier items before lighter ones. The restaurant Susur has appeared on numerous international top 50 lists, and Mr. Lee is recognized as one of the world’s top chefs by such publications as Gourmet, Food and Wine and the U.K.’s Restaurant.

Mr. Lee, who has battled culinary stars Bobby Flay and Morimoto on Iron Chef America, looks forward to "a bigger stage" in Manhattan. He will now jet between his home in Toronto, where his wife and three children will continue to live, and New York.

He shares his strategy for success in the cut-throat restaurant business with Report on Small Business Incubator.

– Diane Jermyn

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