Chef Levine is a 1987 graduate of the California Culinary Academy in San Francisco, under the training of Executive Chef Roberto Gerometta CMC as well as a 1985 graduate of the Diablo Valley College Hotel and Restaurant School in Pleasant Hill, California. Chef Levine has worked at many notable San Francisco restaurants including The Balboa Cafe, Harry’s Bar and American Grill, the Flying Saucer and the Blue Fox, eventually becoming Chef for Ciao Ristorante in 1992.

Chef Levine also spent time working on the East Coast for both locations of Twenty-One Federal Restaurant in Washington, D.C. and Nantucket Island under Executive Chef Bob Kincaid. While in Washingon D.C. he apprecticed for the celebrated Michelin starred chef, Jean-Louis Palladin, at his eponymous restaurant in the Watergate Hotel. 

In Seattle, Chef Levine has donned his knives at numerous restaurants including The Waterfront Seafood Grill, Troiani, Vivanda, Isabella, The BluWater Bistro, and Trattoria Carmine. He held the title of Chef Tournant at Columbia Hospitality properties, Salish Lodge & Spa and the The Bluff at Friday Harbor House. Chef Levine has taught a host of cooking classes, both private and professional, in addition to spending time as a Chef Instructor for the Art Institute of Seattle and Renton Technical College. He donates his time to numerous local and national charities and events in the Pacific Northwest.