Chef Curtis Stone says he’s hoping to move back to Australia after a ‘crazy year’ in Los Angeles 

Curtis Stone is keen to return to Australia after what he calls a ‘crazy time’ living in the USA. 

The celebrity chef has been based in Los Angeles with his family and just opened a new restaurant, Picnic Society.

However the 44-year-old told The Herald Sun on Friday: ‘I really miss it, more than ever. It’s a chaotic time over here in the US so I miss it even more knowing that where you are is a little nuts’. 

He added that it would feel ‘safer’ and more ‘stable’ in Australia for himself and his family.    

‘We have that conversation a lot in our house at the moment. Australia has never looked so enticing. 

‘We’ve always held out hope we’d live between the two places or maybe move back one day,’ he said. 

Curtis was forced to shut down two of his Los Angeles restaurants in April, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Appearing on The Project in April, Curtis told Gorgi Coghlan coronavirus had forced him to shut down both of his Los Angeles restaurants.  

‘It is brutal. We are in Los Angeles, one of the hardest hit areas of America, and both our restaurants were closed,’ he explained.   

The Australian chef was left with no choice but to turn his restaurant, Maude, into a marketplace and deliver food to people.

‘You accept it and move on, and you’ve just got to be flexible and keep your people taken care of and employed, and that was always our goal,’ he said. 

Curtis is married to actress Lindsay Price, 43, and they have two children, sons Hudson, 8 and Emerson, 6.