Jeremiah Tower (born 1942) is an American celebrity chef who, along with Alice Waters and Wolfgang Puck, has been credited with pioneering the culinary style known as California cuisine.

[2][3][4][5] After earning his master's degree, he had intended to pursue design, specifically of underwater structures in Hawaii[6] because of his obsession with finding the lost city of Atlantis.

[6] Inspired by a berry tart he had eaten at then-unknown Chez Panisse restaurant in Berkeley, California, Tower applied for a job there in 1972.

[citation needed] In 1981, Tower revived the failing Balboa Cafe in San Francisco, a restaurant owned by Cathe and Doyle Moon.

[11] In 2016, the biographical documentary Jeremiah Tower: The Last Magnificent, directed by Lydia Tenaglia and produced by Anthony Bourdain and Zero Point Zero productions, premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival.

[6] In 2017, Jeremiah Tower was appointed a Founding Patron of the Oxford Cultural Collective, an educational body specializing in hospitality and gastronomy.

In addition to writing two books in 2016,[21] Tower was the key speaker at the Ken Hom lecture series at Oxford Brookes University.