Six months later Josh turned 17, but in the meantime est. had won Restaurant of the Year and in Pete’s words ‘everybody wants to be here’, so the offer of an apprenticeship had passed. But Josh didn’t give up,‘I started doing train trips on every day off to go to different restaurants in Sydney. So that’s how I got meet everyone in the industry at a very young age. One lunchtime I sat at Glass Brasserie for 5 hours and I just watched how it all worked because that was so new and so big. And then at the end Luke [Mangan] came and sat with me and he asked – “Are you a chef?”, and I said “I’m a chef and I’d really like to work for you”. And he said “OK”.So, I went in and did a trial and got the job. Moved into an apartment by myself and then started working for Luke doing horrendous hours. There were nights slept in the staff canteen downstairs, missing alarms and getting changed running to the train station, putting my pants on back to front. All that sort of stuff.’Josh has since worked in some of Sydney’s best kitchens, he has one impressive resume including est. Restaurant, Quay, Fish Face, Café Nice, The Woods and has travelled to the UK to do a four-month development stagiaire with Heston Blumenthal and helped write the Heston at Home cook book.