Bad news for fans of French fine dining – celebrated chef Guillaume Brahimi is closing his eponymous Sydney restaurant at the end of the year.

The chef opened Guillaume in Paddington in 2014 after leaving the Sydney Opera House where Guillaume at Bennelong had operated since 2001.

On his decision to close the Hargrave Street restaurant, Brahimi said he now intends to focus his energies on the various Bistro Guillaume restaurants in Melbourne, Sydney and Perth.

Brahimi also works as a ‘culinary ambassador’ for the Public House Management Group and runs the kitchen at The Four in Hand by Guillaume, only a short distance from his Paddington flagship.

Guillaume in Paddington will serve its last soufflé on December 30.

Francophiles will still be able to get their fill at Brahimi’s Bistro Guillaume in Sydney and Melbourne.