Josh Emett is one of the most popular and richest Chef who was born on July 6, 1973 in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
StarChefs New York Rising Star, 2009 – Hotel Chef.
In 2011 Emett left Gordon Ramsay Holdings and opened his first restaurant, Rata, in Queenstown with his business partner Fleur Caulton. A few years later they opened Madam Woo, a casual Malaysian restaurant also in Queenstown. Its huge success has seen them open three more outposts since. In 2017 Emett’s team diversified and opened Hawker and Roll, a fast casual spin-off of Madam Woo which now has three sites across New Zealand.
In 1999 he headed to the South France, where he worked on luxury yachts. He then moved to London and made contact with Gordon Ramsay, whom Cooke had introduced him to. He went on to work with Ramsay for ten years at Restaurant Gordon Ramsay,Claridge’s and the Savoy Grill in London, and then overseas to New York, Los Angeles and Melbourne.
