As a foodie who fell in love with Seattle, I find this to be a great story. Congrats to you and your family. And the menu there looks stellar. The wife and I are talking about a trip back to Seattle in 2010, and we'll have to include Cafe Jaunita in our plans. We went to a few nice places (I even had my 40th birthday dinner at the herb farm), but what probably left the most indelible impression on me was the high end Vietnamese food. We have pretty good Pho here in Houston, but I haven't had any "nicer" Vietnamese food here that impressed me like Monsoon and The Tamarind Tree. If we can get it together, I'll have to hit you up for some recommendations. One of my friends from high school lives there and is dating a local entertainment (including food) writer, so I should have the inside track.
Chef-Owner Holly Smith Sous Chef Lauren Thompson Cooks : David Solis, Leah Lateste, Jonah Pastaiola Susan Raunig
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I think its cool that youre so proud of her. congrats to you and her. Sounds like your wife should host a ClutchFans dinner during an away game.
Gotta bump this. My wife kicked some serious ass at Cafe Juanita while she was chef de cuisine. They made the long list for James Beard best in nation award while she was there, and I got to dine there a number of times and can testify that some of the dishes she created were amazing. Reviews were always phenomenal. She took a year off from the kitchen to try her hand at teaching culinary school and helped work on a cookbook\app with John Sundstrom of Lark, but the pull of the kitchen called her back in. She’s the new sous chef at Lark beginning this week, and I’m expecting her to do quite well at this new gig. When we first moved to Seattle, she was one of the line cooks in Lark’s first two years, so it’s a bit of a homecoming to a familiar kitchen in a much different role. Lark won the James Beard award for best chef in 2007. Traveling foodies, you should definitely check it out if you’re visiting Seattle for a true taste of the Northwest. Lark prides itself on the relations it has with farms and artisans in the area and brings the best of local product to the table in a shared plates, family style wave of courses.
Place look real nice, and the menu has about anything you could want. She must be a beast to be sousin there. I'll take the croxetti pasta btw.
Awesome! Make sure to mention you're from ClutchFans when you dine there. The menus is always quite lengthy, and there's a wide variety of things to try. I love the family style nature of it because it encourages the whole table to try more things that the usual three course meal. My wife worked over a year as a pastaioloa and makes freaking bad ass pasta. You can never go wrong with that. She is a beast on the line and is really coming into her own as a top caliber chef. One day in the not too distant future, she'll open her own place. Thanks, Fyreball, Deckard, and davidio840. The cool thing is she can cook healthy food that tastes awesome! I'm actually at my lowest weight in over 10 years.
I just checked out the place, and it seems that next time we're in Seattle, I'm gonna have to insist we go over to Lark. The place looks incredible.
Congrats. I remember you mentioned she might try out for Top Chef or something like that a while back. That'd be kind of cool to have a CF.net connection on that show. Restaurant looks great. I love seafood and bet it is awesome there. In general, anytime you post I think about how cool Seattle is. If not for the need to be near family would seriously consider a move.
