- Fifteen restaurants
Fifteen is the name of several
restaurants created by the Englishcelebrity chef Jamie Oliver .History
Oliver created the restaurant as part of a
2002 TV series, "Jamie's Kitchen ", broadcast onChannel 4 . Jamie Oliver recruited fifteen unemployed young people, somehomeless and others with learning difficulties, and trained them from scratch to become professional-standard chefs. This continued after the TV series finished, and the restaurant has become a success. Many of its graduates have moved on to other top restaurants in London.Fact|date=October 2007Fifteen was also featured in the follow-up series, "
Return to Jamie's Kitchen " and provided a backdrop to the2005 series "Jamie's School Dinners ". The restaurant is a charitable foundation, with all profits generated spent on training its recruits.Locations
The original Fifteen is located in
Hoxton , in theLondon Borough of Hackney . In 2004, FifteenAmsterdam opened inThe Netherlands . In May 2006, FifteenCornwall opened inWatergate Bay ,Newquay and FifteenMelbourne ,Australia opened in September 2006.References
External links
* [http://www.fifteen.net/ "Fifteen" website]
* [http://www.fifteencornwall.co.uk "Fifteen Cornwall" website]
* [http://www.fifteenmelbourne.com.au "Fifteen Melbourne" website]
* [http://www.fifteen.nl/ "Fifteen Amsterdam" website]
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