Fifteen Melbourne Fifteen Melbourne Fifteen restaurant and its associated charity was a concept originally created by British chef Jamie Oliver in London in 2002 when he realised he could use his skills and energy to offer disadvantaged and marginalised young people with tough backgrounds an opportunity to train to be chefs. Oliver founded the original Fifteen restaurant in London and put young people at its heart. Since 2002 two further restaurants opened in Amsterdam and Cornwall. Melbourne, Australia was the fourth restaurant in the Fifteen ‘family'. On 8 June 2008, the offices of Fifteen Melbourne was burned in a fire lit by
Jamie Oliver his career Oliver employed Contaldo to help run his collection of high street restaurants, Jamie's Italian. Oliver moved to The River Café, Fulham, as a sous-chef. It was there that he was noticed by the BBC in 1997, after making an unscripted appearance in a documentary about the restaurant, "Christmas at the River Cafe". In 1999, his BBC show "The Naked Chef" debuted, and his cookbook became a No. 1 best-seller in the United Kingdom. That same year, Oliver was invited to prepare lunch for the Prime Minister Tony Blair at 10 Downing Street. After three series of "Naked Chef"