Guest Chef Night: Chefs Sundstrom & Hilliard

Guest Chef Night pairs premier local chefs with FareStart students to create a three-course meal served by volunteer community members. All revenue and donations from Guest Chef Night support FareStart’s job training and placement programs.

About the Chef

John Sundstrom is a James Beard Award-winning (Best Chef Northwest 2007, Semi Finalist Best Chef US 2014, Lark Outstanding Restaurant Semi-Finalist US 2016) Seattle chef known for his thoughtful use of foraged and wild ingredients. In 2003, two years after being named one of Food & Wine’s Best New Chefs in America, Sundstrom opened Lark in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood. In 2014, he relocated Lark to a larger space and opened Slab Sandwiches in the same building.

In 2013, Sundstrom published his first cookbook, Lark: Cooking Against the Grain, which was awarded an IACP Judges Choice Award. In August of 2016, Sasquatch Books published Lark: Cooking Wild in the Northwest, a new paperback edition that includes a chapter on favorite larder items. Sundstrom was honored to be a speaker at René Redzepi’s MAD5 Symposium in Copenhagen in the summer of 2016. John and his partners also operate Cora Pizza + Plates, Sundstrom’s foray into wood-fired pizza, opened in the original Lark space.