''Jamie's Kitchen Australia'' is a 10 part

Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising mainland Australia, the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and list of islands of Australia, numerous smaller isl ...

n television show which premiered Thursday 14 September 2006 on

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. The show stars international chef

Jamie Oliver Jamie Trevor Oliver Order of the Star of Italy, OSI (born 27 May 1975) is an English celebrity chef, restaurateur and cookbook author. He is known for his casual approach to cuisine, which has led him to front numerous television shows and o ...

and

Tobie Puttock Tobie Puttock (born 1974) is an Australian celebrity chef, best known for his association with British chef Jamie Oliver. Cooking career Born in Melbourne, Victoria, Puttock trained at Box Hill Institute of TAFE, and first worked at Caffe e C ...

. Puttock is a friend of Oliver's and having previously worked for Oliver in England, is in charge of establishing the restaurant, Fifteen Melbourne. Based upon the original ''

Jamie's Kitchen ''Jamie's Kitchen'' is a five-part British documentary television series that aired on Channel 4 from 5 November to 10 December 2002. It follows chef Jamie Oliver as he attempts to train a group of 15 unemployed youths, who will—if they complet ...

'' that aired in 2002 in the UK, 25 disadvantaged youth were selected to train and hopefully become part of the staff at the newly opened Fifteen restaurant in

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. Prior to the opening of the restaurant, initial training of the young apprentice chefs took place at

Box Hill Institute of TAFE Box Hill Institute is a provider of vocational and higher education, situated in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria. The institute operates across multiple campuses, including three in Box Hill (Elgar, Nelson, and Whitehorse), one in ...

. Fifteen was located at 115 Collins Street,

, replacing Mo Mo restaurant. Fifteen was opened to the public from 22 September 2006. However, it has now closed, being replaced by another restaurant called The Kitchen Cat which opened in 2011 also run by Tobie Puttock. The Kitchen Cat is also now closed.

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Fifteen Review by The Age
Australian cooking television series Network 10 original programming 2000s Australian reality television series 2006 Australian television series debuts 2006 Australian television series endings Australian English-language television shows Television shows set in Melbourne {{food-tv-prog-stub

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