Ben O’Donoghue Biography
Ben O’Donoghue is a chef, television host, and author from Australia. As a young school leaver in Perth, he discovered he had an aptitude in the kitchen. Cooking has since become a passion for him, never failing to delight or stir his creativity.
How old is Ben O’Donoghue? – Age
He is 53 years old as of 22 May 2023. He was born in 1970 in England, United Kingdom.
Ben O’Donoghue Family – Education
O’Donoghue was five years old when his family relocated to Port Hedland from England. His family relocated to Perth when he was ten years old. After finishing high school, O’Donoghue worked as a kitchen worker at a restaurant on Rottnest Island for the summer. He was head boy in his last year of high school at La Salle College in Midland.
Ben O’Donoghue Wife
O’Donoghue is married to Dee O’Donoghue. He resides in Australia with his wife Dee and their three children, Ruby, Herb, and Cash.
Ben O’Donoghue Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $12 Million.
Ben O’Donoghue Restaurants
O’Donoghue had three Brisbane restaurants and retail outlets: Billykart Kitchen, Billykart West End, and Billykart Bar. In July 2021, he sold Billykart Kitchen in Annerley. In April 2023, his company, Billykart West End, hired administrators.
Ben O’Donoghue Cookbooks
With Hardie Grant Books, O’Donoghue has published four cookbooks: Outdoor: Grill Your Way Round the World; Ben’s Barbeque; At Home With Ben – a glimpse of his remarkable cooking career; and Ben’s Barbecue Bible – a compilation of all things barbecuing. Ben’s Meat Bible, his fourth book, was published in 2015. He has also been a regular contributor to major food magazines, including a decade of writing for Delicious.
Ben O’Donoghue Career
In the wake of qualifying as a culinary specialist, O’Donoghue was elevated to the top assistant chef at Jessica’s Fish Eatery in Perth. This was trailed by spells as Cook de Partie at Goodfella’s café in Newtown, Sydney, and at the Tribeca eatery in Twofold Sound, where he was accordingly elevated to top assistant chef. In 1993, the eatery was granted the “Best New Café Grant” by the Sydney Morning Messenger Great Food Guide.
In 1996 O’Donoghue ventured out to the Unified Realm where he worked at The Stream Bistro prior to moving to become Head Gourmet expert at the Monte’s Club in Knightsbridge with Jamie Oliver. He then, at that point, functioned as the Head Culinary specialist at the Atlantic Bar and Barbecue and furthermore assisted Oliver Peyton with winning the agreement to open the Public Lounge area at the Public Exhibition with his imaginative and occasional menus. O’Donoghue has likewise worked with Oliver as an expert food beautician as well as helping him with different external catering capabilities, including cooking for Tony Blair and the Italian State leader.
O’Donoghue showed up in two episodes of Jamie Oliver’s The Stripped Culinary Specialist, prior to making the primary demonstration of his own in Morocco, for American TV. That was followed, in April 2002, by a solicitation to co-present a BBC Two ten-section ideal time series, The Best, with a going BBC book of a similar name.
At the point when he got back to Australia, he went straight into recording an eight-section food and travel series, Riding the Menu, for ABC, alongside Curtis Stone, which circulated in 2003, and incorporated a going with ABC book. The show ran for a further three seasons.
From 2007, O’Donoghue showed up on Way of Life Food in The Best in Australia with individual gourmet specialist, Darren Simpson, and cook Anna Gare, as well as Drive-through Australia, Tom and Ben’s Singapore, and Aussie bar-b-que Legend. In June 2009, O’Donoghue partook in a “Big Name Culinary specialist Challenge” on Masterchef Australia, in which he was beaten by candidate Lucas Parsons, cooking a burned kangaroo midsection with creamed corn.