Jess Murphy is a New Zealand-born chef based in Galway, Ireland.
[1] Murphy grew up in the small town of Wairoa in New Zealand's North Island.
[2] She left school at the age of 15 and worked in a bar and washing dishes in Hastings to pay for catering college.
When she was 19, she moved to Perth, Western Australia, to work in the restaurant industry.
[5] She then moved to Ireland and worked as a chef until opening her own restaurant, Kai Cafe, in Galway in partnership with her husband David Murphy.