5th ANNUAL ARTSEA CAFÉ PERFORMING CHEF

  
   
Jack Fisher
Executive Pastry Chef/Owner
Jack Fisher Confections

Jack’s cooking career started at the early age of 14. After spending 10 years in various positions on the savory side of things, he found himself in the pastry kitchen at the San Diego Sheraton working with Executive Pastry Chef, Randy Mikulas. It was Mikulas who showed Jack the basics of pastry and much more. Jack spent three years getting his “feet wet” then moved jobs and wound up at Loews Coronado working as the pastry chef for the very popular Azzura Point, led by Executive Chef James Boyce. “Shortly after I got there I realized that I was in over my head, but I was determined to make it. Chef Boyce is really demanding, but he taught me some of the most important lessons on understanding the harmony that should exist between savory and pastry.” After Boyce’s departure, Jack worked side-by-side with new Azzura Point Chef de Cuisine Micheal Stebner, a Boyce protégé. They worked together for the next five years. During that time Jack followed Chef Stebner to Nine-Ten and opened Region Restaurant in Hillcrest, where Stebner was the owner. Following his departure from Region, Jack spent three months with Executive Pastry Chef Richard Ruskell at the five-star Montage Resort in Laguna Beach. This was followed by a return to Nine-Ten under the watchful eye of Executive Chef Jason Knibb, who Jack cites as opening his eyes to a whole new style of plating. In February of 2007, Jack was hired by Executive Chef Tony DiSalvo to run the pastry department at Jack’s La Jolla.

Jack has had the opportunity to participate in many local celebrity chef events including Taste of the Nation, Chef’s Celebration, Celebrate the Craft, and two James Beard “out of house” events. Jack has also had the opportunity to cook at the James Beard House in NYC three times. In 2008, Jack launched his own brand of fine chocolates, Jack Fisher Confections.

Jack is a native of Imperial Beach, just north of the Mexico/US border. He lives there with his wife and four children.