Vim Dining & Desserts is hiring full-time experienced cooks to work in our innovative and upscale dining kitchen.We are hiring a line cook and a kitchen lead. $20-25 to start per/hour (experience considered) plus approximately $5/hour in tips. Wednesdays-Saturdays. Must be comfortable lifting up to 50 pounds. 35-40 hours per week.
Vim Dining & Desserts is the Winner of Good Times Best Restaurant in Santa Cruz two years running. Winner Best Chef in Santa Cruz, Jesikah Stolaroff 2025. We are looking for the perfect persons to join our fun kitchen family! . We have a seasonally changing menu and are interested in people that match our high standards and passion for food. We are excited to meet you!
About Vim
Vim is named for the energy and vitality that it brings to the Santa Cruz culinary scene. In an atmosphere of warmth and casual elegance, patrons are invited to linger over approachable New American cuisine, decadent desserts, and modern cocktails.
About the Chef
Chef Jesikah Stolaroff brings the feeling of home together with local ingredients and refined technique to create food that fills the heart. She specializes in thoughtful, New American cuisine with a nod toward her family’s Italian roots, joined by unforgettable, innovative desserts.
A native of Santa Cruz, Jesikah got her start as a teenager making incredible cakes for birthdays and weddings, before moving north to hone her craft. She studied both the science and the art of food, with degrees in Nutritional Science from UC Berkeley and Culinary Arts from the Culinary Institute of America in Napa.
Jesikah cut her teeth in the Bay Area food scene, catering high-end events for the likes of Google, Pixar, and Mark Zuckerberg, and learning precision, planning, and visual flair. She practiced California Cuisine at Plum, part of the prestigious Daniel Patterson restaurant group, before taking a position as the opening sous chef at Oakland’s Michel Bistro. There, she helped the French-inspired restaurant win the Michelin Bib Gourmand award in its first year (and every year since).
But opening a family restaurant has always been Jesikah’s singular dream, and so she returns to Santa Cruz to share her experience and passion with her friends and neighbors by starting Vim.
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