Lark

Good food, local ingredients. Don't be fooled by other reviews. Lark offers an unpretentious fine dining experience with high quality ingredients and attentive service. The plates are intentionally small, range between $10-$20, and are intended to encourage sampling and sharing -- think food of the Northwest served tapas style. Though the menu can be intimidating, the servers are more than happy to make recommendations which were fairly reliable. We enjoyed the thinly sliced and perfectly marinated yellowtail carpaccio (somehow panned by a previous review). The seared foie gras was cooked perfectly. And the pork belly was a little plate of heaven. The only off-note we had was an overcooked steak dish which left the meat a little tough for my taste. But because we had so many other wonderful plates to choose from, it wasn't of much consequence. The wine list isn't terribly long and dessert was underwhelming (we had the dark chocolate parve). But try the local cheeses on the recommendation of your server. I'd definitely go back to sample some more!…

Not Impressed. I don't write many reviews but I was visiting Seattle for a long weekend and I am all about the local and sustainable stuff so I thought I would give this place a try. I was NOT impressed. My wild mushrooms were over cooked, rubbery and tasted like they had been sitting around for quite a while. My main course, the yellow tail was pretty bland and our waitress was SO snobby. I couldn't believe it. And I didn't even realize it at the time but I recently read an article in the New York times about Foie Gras and now it absolutely disgusts me! Just another reason not to go back I guess...…

Double yuck.. This place is as loud as a high school cafeteria, and the food isn't too far off either. I was hungry until I saw "Rabbit Haunch" on the menu. Yuck. So my boyfriend gets the foie gras, cuz he'd heard it was "cruel" or whatever and wanted to try it anyway. Well, he couldn't even finish the tiny smattering of the stuff, even with me helping. Double yuck.…

bad place for caring people. I used to really enjoy the food at lark. But... then I talked to some of the protesters outside. At first I was simply annoyed and was going to ask them to shut up. But instead of being ignorant I figure it couldn't hurt to ask them what they were so upset about. Turns out Lark serves an extremely cruel dish that even the most desensitized fellow would cringe over the truth of. This doesn't say much about the restaurant itself, but when I saw how the manager refused to listen to the reasoning of these protesters, I realized that I didn't want to eat in a place where even the owners were to heartless to even consider taking one measly little item off their menu. Until the day I hear that the owners of lark have grown hearts, i will never return.…