The Chef - W. Jimmy Maneeboon

Jimmy completed his apprenticeship under the guidance of many chef’s in five star hotels in Thailand and the Middle East. At the same time he became interested in studying more about food presentation and creating a new style of cooking, mixing both the east and western cuisines thereby creating a successful balance between the two.

In 1996 he travel to Europe and took a short holiday working in Madrid with an exclusive restaurant, specializing in modern Thai cuisine. The owner gave him many ideas and opportunities as to how to create different fine cuisine but unfortunately his holiday finished too soon before he had to return to Thailand. Jimmy then went to work at a five star hotel in Bangkok, however this time he was able to utilize his newly found experience to become second chef at this special fine dining restaurant.

In 1999 Jimmy began looking for a new experience and decided to go to Melbourne where he could study and gain further experience working with various restaurants.
In 2000 he felt that he was now ready and confident to enable him to open his own restaurant. Thus the “Thai Princess Restaurant at 16 Glenferrie Road, Malvern, Melbourne, Victoria , Australia was established specializing in classic and modern Thai cuisine. The restaurant became a great success culminating after four years with a listing in The Age Good Food Guide 2007 – the bible to all that's best in the Australian restaurant scene.

In 2006 Jimmy moved to a new home. His new restaurant is called the “Little Thai Princess” at 285 Burke Road, Glen Iris Victoria, Australia this is second venture but not his last!