Meet the Bar Pastoral team:

Chrissy CambaChrissy Camba

Chef

Chrissy, most recently executive chef at Vincent and formerly of Home Bistro and Sage here in Chicago, is the newest addition to the Pastoral family and a natural fit for Bar Pastoral with her passion for cheeses and specialty food and her ability to expertly pair ingredients together to create flavorful combinations. Over the years Chef Chrissy has formed strong relationships with many local farms and will showcase the bounty of these farms at Bar Pastoral, with a highly seasonal cuisine focused on small production and artisan cheeses, charcuterie, pickling, preserves and other thoughtfully paired accompaniments.

Mark HayesMARK HAYES

Beverage Director & Educator

A Michigan native, Mark's career in wine started in restaurants around the campus of his alma mater Michigan State University where he studied Economics and Human Resource Management, but mostly wine and beer. After graduating, he moved to southern California and had his 'epiphany' that wine would be his path over a bottle of 1997 Dauvissat Les Clos Chablis Grand Cru.

Mark has managed the beverage programs for restaurants in both Chicago and San Diego and now finds himself at home at Pastoral. A self trained but fortuitously mentored advocate for authentic and terrior-driven wines, Mark is more eager to share a pour of his latest discovery and liken it to Teddy Pendergrass than talk about its more quantifiable traits.

MayleAshley Mayle

Front of House Manager

Ashley has wanted to be in the restaurant industry for as long as she can remember and has been working with food she was 16 years old.  A Michigan native, she moved to Chicago to pursue her Bachelor's Degree in Culinary Arts and started working at Pastoral as a sandwich bar employee to help pay her way through school.  She has worked in almost every aspect of Pastoral's business, from making sandwiches to making our house prosciutto bacon and spiced nuts, working as a floor manager in the retail stores, and helping design our side salads, sandwich and catering menus.  She has also worked as a Line Cook at Timothy's Restaurant in Union Pier and fulfilled an internship at Dunlays/DOC Wine Bar in Lakeview.

After spending a year managing Pastoral's Commissary space and production kitchen, Ashley stepped into the role of Front of House Manager at Bar Pastoral, where her love for food, wine and people is well nurtured.

Bryan BlandBryan Bland

Cheesemonger

Bryan is a career-changer that had a cheese epiphany after finding his way to Pastoral via the sandwiches. He took the Pastoral path, moving from sandwich bar to the cheese case where he bloomed as a cheesemonger. With a design background and deep passion for eating, a love for cheese and all things related grew naturally. He is constantly on the lookout for new cheese, interesting beverages, and the best potato chips money can buy.

Ken MillerKen Miller

Ken’s background spans from culinary to computers. He earned his BS from the College of William & Mary and is a graduate of New York’s Peter Kump Culinary School (currently known as ICE). He studied and worked under chef David Waltuck at the award winning Chanterelle restaurant in Manhattan’s Tribeca district. Additionally, Ken ran catering operations serving the entertainment industry and practiced restaurant consulting for several celebrity clients. He has always had a love of good eating and believes that the key to great food is simplicity and perfect preparation.

He used the other side of his brain to design high-level graphic systems on nuclear submarines, complex imaging systems in the world of real estate and title insurance and software for a large technology services company. He has a hunger for learning and is always trying and tasting new things! Ken serves as Pastoral’s CFO and CTO and is responsible for our physical plant and special projects.