Neil Perry's Jade Temple restaurant to close

Jade Temple will serve its last Peking duck this weekend, with restaurateur Neil Perry confirming the Bridge Street restaurant will close on Saturday, June 30.

"The food's awesome, but it just didn't resonate with the dining public," Perry says.

Perry is scratching his head why Jade Temple didn't work. The restaurant is seemingly well located at the northern end of the CBD and there is renewed appetite for Chinese food across Sydney.

"The rent is high and staff levels are high … it's a formal looking dining room, maybe [that contributed]," he says.

Jade Temple opened in a space Perry previously operated a traditional fine-dining restaurant. He tweaked the menu earlier this year in an effort to give Jade Temple broader appeal and a more pan-Asian route, introducing some Korean and Thai dishes to the menu.

"The duck is incredible, we'll be moving that across to Spice Temple," he adds.

Perry says they'll hold onto the Bridge Street site. "We'll keep it as an event space. We'll do some functions for our foundation there, and some pop-ups."