Jamie Oliver has reflected on an unexpected complication with his charitable restaurant Fifteen Cornwall, which opened in 2006 with the bomb squad in attendance.

The 50-year-old TV chef’s mission to train up disenfranchised youngsters to become top chefs began in London four years earlier, and local Cornish councillor Betty Hale contacted Oliver’s team in order to bring the same apprenticeship opportunities to Cornwall.

And so Fifteen Cornwall was born with 15 young recruits, at its peak welcoming 80,000 guests a year for 14 years until its 2019 closure.

‘I can’t go back because I have too many feelings towards it,’ Jamie reflected on Watergate Bay in a recent podcast episode of Full Disclosure with James O’Brien.

Profits of the restaurant – which was run by charity the Cornwall Food F

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