Former Gastro Park chef Grant King joins QT's Gowings Bar & Grill

With Jean-Paul Lourdes's (from Manhattan's Nomad restaurant) summer residency on the pans at QT's Gowings Bar & Grill concluded, the rumour mill has been in overdrive on the future culinary direction of the Sydney CBD hotel-restaurant.

QT's incoming talent isn't too shabby, with former Pier executive chef Grant King handed the keys to all of the hotel's food outlets. He will focus initially on its signature Gowings Bar & Grill.

King recently closed his restaurant, the Antipodean, a more casual reboot of his Gastro Park fine diner.

The chef spent years fighting the good fight in a difficult location. Business might have been challenging, but it didn't stop him banking a bag of chef's hats and the Gault Millau's chef of the year award in 2017.

King says he's keen to break the mould of typical hotel hospitality. "I look forward to bringing flairs of my gastronomy past to this new role," he says.

Hopefully that'll include some of Gastro Park's innovative signatures.