The famous chef has died due to a heart attack, according to his wife, Kelly Kent, through their company Saga Hospitality Group.
The distinguished chef, James Kentwho was destined to become a benchmark in the gastronomic sector, died this Saturday in Brooklyn at 45 years of age, as confirmed by his wife, Kelly Kentin a statement to which the newspaper has had access New York Times.
Saga Hospitality Grouphis business holding company that had two restaurants (Crown Shy and Saga) and a cocktail bar (Overstory), was the means by which his death was announced.
Kent first started using knives at the age of 14, raised in Greenwich Village, his mother told him to call the famous chef David Bouley to ask for a job. Bouley did not hesitate to say yes, the American newspaper reports narrating the beginnings of the gastronomic promise.
From that moment on, the young man from Greenwich visited various restaurants in New York: Babbo, Jean-Georges, Eleven Madison Park and NoMad. But it wasn’t until 2019 when he opened his first restaurant, the Crown Shy, in the Art Deco skyscraper, located at 70 Pine Street (Manhattan’s Financial District). Two years later, in 2021, Kent obtained four more floors of the building, and those four floors then went from being executive boardrooms for insurer AIG to becoming the chef’s second restaurant: Saga and at the cocktail bar Overstoryinforms the New York Times.
In addition to having a good hand in the kitchen, the deceased also had a street side. “A chef who is also an artist of graffiti tremendously talented,” the television channel shared, Bloomberg, in 2016. Kent loved street art and that led him to master the wall spray technique. He was commissioned to do various graffiti in the NoMad Hotel and restaurant technology company Stepped out.
With numerous investments in mind such as a 3,000 square meter ground floor in Brooklyn to open a bakerya new restaurant with capacity for 140 people in park avenue and the opening of another fast-casual fried chicken sandwich restaurant, numerous business experts called James Kent a rare, multi-dimensional talent poised to become the next most important restaurant businessman in the USpublishes the New York Times.
After a youth marked by Islamophobia due to growing up in a home in which the doctrine of Islam was practiced, with a wife and children and a lot of sacrifice to “be the best, learn from the best and run these incredible restaurants”, James Kent he will no longer be able to become the reference chef-entrepreneur of the New York gastronomic scene.
