A Connecticut native, Chef Justin Moore ventured West after high school to attend the Academy of Art in San Francisco. He later changed schools and enrolled in the California Culinary Academy, an affiliate of Le Cordon Bleu, where chefs were trained using the European education model. In 2011, he co-founded Vin 909 Winecafé, which makes its home in a 1930s Sears Roebuck mail-order catalog house, and where he sources local ingredients to prepare inspired small plates and inventive pizzas from scratch and pairs dishes with fine and rare vintages.

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