Rick Moonen

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Rick Moonen is an American seafood chef and an early adopter of sustainable fishing practices.^{[citation needed]} He is known as the "Godfather of Sustainability".^{[citation needed]}

Moonen graduated from the Culinary Institute of America and then went on to work at New York City's La Côte Basque, Le Cirque, and The Water Club, where he worked for six years.^[1][2][3] He then became executive chef and partner at Oceana before he opened rm in New York, which earned three stars from The New York Times.^{[citation needed]} He was also partner in the Greek Restaurant, Molyvos, which also received three stars from the New York Times.^{[citation needed]} He was one of very few chefs in New York to have three stars from two separate open restaurantsIn in New York.^{[citation needed]} In 2005, Moonen closed the New York Restaurant rm in order to open Rick Moonen's RM Seafood and r bar café at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas.^[4]

Moonen is an advocate for sustainable seafood.^{[citation needed]} He is a founding member of the Chef’s Coalition, Seafood Choices Alliance and a member of the Wildlife Conservation Society, Seaweb, Share our Strength, and a chef's advisory board member of Ecofish.^{[citation needed]} Moonen has served as a spokesperson for American caviar and has testified several times for environmental and sustainable policy issues in Washington, D.C., and New York.^{[citation needed]}

He is on the board of advisors for the French Culinary Institute, a member of the corporation and a fellow of the Culinary Institute of America, a contributing editor to Food & Wine Magazine and is a frequent guest chef at the James Beard House.^{[citation needed]} In 2010, Moonen was a finalist in the second season of Bravo's Top Chef Masters.^[5]