Chef Nobu Matsuhisa owns 26 restaurants to his name but he wasn’t named a celebrity chef just for his successful business ventures. He is best known for his unique style of fusion, blending traditional Japanese dishes with Peruvian ingredients. Nobu restaurants have been lauded by gourmet magazines as one of the best establishments for its one-of-a-kind cuisines in all of America. Forbes Magazine has estimated the 63-year-old chef’s net worth at $10 million for the year 2012. The always fully-booked Nobu is dubbed the most successful chain of upscale restaurants in the world yet it has just started to branch out globally.
Chef Daniel Boulud is one of the busiest celebrity chefs due to his passion for culinary adventure and perfection. The French restaurateur is best known for his Michelin 3-star awards for his establishments in New York City and his unconventional tweaks of international dishes. The kitchen star does not just cook on the ground but 30,000 feet high in the air as well. Aboard private jets, Daniel cooks for flight crews, high-paying celebrities, rescue workers and other high-fliers that have come across the adventurer chef. Even when he’s not in along the jet ride, his regular customers’ would order a special take-out for the flight. This is how the humble chef’s dishes are highly clamoured for.
He is famous for his foul mouth which is pacified by his [average] ability to cook and rake high TV show ratings. Chef Gordon Ramsay attracts media attention for his competitive cookery antics on and off camera. His personality is found appalling by most TV viewers yet his temper has made him one of the richest chefs in the world with a net worth estimate of $38 million. If he had been kinder to his apprentice chefs and customers, he’d have been richer than another British chef, Jamie Oliver. The 37-year old culinary master made headlines after becoming the world’s richest chef last year, with an accumulation of $230 million from his 15 cookbooks, TV shows and restaurants. Chef Jamie is famous for his campaigns for better food all around Britain. He also mentors out-of-school youths who trains and works in Jamie’s Kitchen. A documentary about Jamie’s aim to turn the lives of disadvantaged kids around has spawned other shows all around the world. The young man who first made media sensation for cooking naked on prime time TV when he was just a budding chef has certain gone a long way because of pure talent, entrepreneurship and compassion. Ain’t that something, Gordon?