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Chef Aesil Kim has left restaurant work for her Korean private dining business, Beok.

Chef Aesil Kim has left restaurant work for her Korean private-dining business, Beok.

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SINGAPORE – The year 2024 has not been a good one for fine dining, to put it mildly. Winter came for one-Michelin-starred contemporary European restaurant Sommer in Marina Boulevard, which served its final course this month. The upscale Voyage in Outram Road is also due to set sail from this island at the end of the year. 

They are part of a long list of fine-dining casualties that have succumbed to the twin storms of rising costs and wanderlust.

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