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The Restaurant at JUSTIN is the dining room at JUSTIN Vineyards & Winery on Chimney Rock Road, and it carries a distinction no other American winery restaurant can claim: a Michelin star, the only one held by a winery in the United States. That alone put it on our best of Paso Robles list.

Chef Rachel Haggstrom, whose background spans The French Laundry and San Francisco's Ritz-Carlton, composes a meticulously paired four-course menu from the on-site culinary gardens and the estate's portfolio. Our own visit, tour, welcome glass and all, could not have made us happier.

Outside bottles are not permitted, and at JUSTIN that is the philosophy rather than a limitation: dinner is a conversation between the garden and the cellar outside the window.