Chef Ben Fidelak
Mariner’s Restaurant
5948 Hwy. 1 Bypass • Natchitoches
UNLIKE MANY CHEFS who call the Bayou State home, Ben Fidelak didn’t grow up on étouffée and gumbo. He was raised in rural Canada, and his path southward was a winding one.
Ben went to college in New Hampshire, moved to Boston, Massachusetts, and then to New York, where he worked as an equity trader on the Nasdaq. New York is also where he met his
