{"id":820532,"date":"2026-07-24T09:13:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T09:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/820532\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T09:13:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T09:13:16","slug":"john-mountain-controversial-anti-vegan-chef-behind-fyre-restaurant-hospitalised-and-awaiting-heart-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/820532\/","title":{"rendered":"John Mountain: Controversial anti-vegan chef behind Fyre Restaurant hospitalised and awaiting heart surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"

Controversial Perth chef and self-proclaimed vegan hater John Mountain has been hospitalised by a severe heart condition and is awaiting major surgery.<\/p>\n

The head chef of Fyre Bar & Restaurant in Connolly, who has placed a blanket ban on all vegan diners<\/a>, advised fans on social media in recent days that he had been \u201cmisdiagnosed\u201d by specialists and seeking answers since February.<\/p>\n

Speaking to PerthNow, Mountain said his fears were finally confirmed on Wednesday upon consulting cardiologist Dr. David Thompson who told him, \u201cI need to operate on you tomorrow\u201d.<\/p>\n

Undergoing an angiogram on Thursday, the chef sadly learned that too many of his arteries were riddled with lesions and that he would be requiring quadruple bypass surgery.<\/p>\n

Regrettably telling fans \u201cI\u2019m f…..\u201d, he remains laid-up in a Joondalup hospital awaiting his open heart procedure on Wednesday at Sir Charles Gairdner.<\/p>\n

Mountain said he first noticed the issue towards the end of summer but largely kept it to himself.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just didn\u2019t say anything to anybody,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was going for a walk with my wife, and it felt as if I\u2019d done a marathon, so I had to stop, allow my heart rate to slow down, and then I could carry on.\u201d<\/p>\n

The fiery chef underwent several scans, consultations, and medications over several months but was repeatedly told: \u201cThere\u2019s nothing wrong with you.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mountain was later sent for a myocardial perfusion test, a nuclear medicine test, which he claimed \u201cnearly killed me\u201d, but that highlighted the extent of his ailing health.<\/p>\n

The recovering \u201calcoholic\u201d insisted his condition was not directly linked to poor lifestyle or diet, and that genetics was to blame.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not diet, it\u2019s not stress, it\u2019s not vegans, it\u2019s none of that s\u2026,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve not drank alcohol for 26 years. I\u2019ve not smoked for 25 years. I don\u2019t drink caffeine. And I don\u2019t take drugs of any sort, any recreational or anything. I\u2019ve been clean for 20-odd years, and yet this has happened. So it\u2019s quite scary.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mountain thanked diners and friends who had offered their well wishes, as well as his wife for not giving up on his quest to identify the underlying issue.<\/p>\n

\"JohnCamera IconJohn and Rita Mountain at Fyre Restaurant in Connolly. Credit: John Mountain\/IG\/IG<\/p>\n

And despite being forced out of the kitchen for at least the short term, he claimed Fyre had never been busier, with 425 people booked in for this week.<\/p>\n

Remaining in good spirits, the polarising figure addressed whether notorious vegan advocate Tash Peterson had reached out, considering the pair\u2019s well-publicised beef<\/a> in recent years.<\/p>\n

\u201cTash the Slash didn\u2019t say anything, but somebody said to me something quite prevalent that was \u2018Only the good die young\u2019, so I\u2019m going to live forever, miserable bastard, which I thought was perfect,\u201d Mountain teased.<\/p>\n

The sharp-tongued chef wished to relay a message to his detractors as he awaited his procedure, aware of its uncertainties.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo those people that want to leave nasty messages, they can just go get f\u2026.,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cTell all the vegans to get f\u2026. from me. Just put it on my epitaph.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Controversial Perth chef and self-proclaimed vegan hater John Mountain has been hospitalised by a severe heart condition and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":820533,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[64,63,134,1295,995,1625],"class_list":["post-820532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-food","tag-influencers","tag-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=820532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/820533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=820532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=820532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=820532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}