06/28/09

Not Impressed

by mangoblu32

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...

• Pros: cute place
• Cons: food not fresh, over priced, snobby waiter

04/27/09

Double yuck.

by LittleRedRidingHood

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.

• Pros: The ceiling work is cool.
• Cons: The food is sticky.

04/24/09

bad place for caring people

by KNEEMAHTOAD

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.

• Cons: inconsiderate, irgnorant staff

04/24/09

NOT a date place.

by LoverOfFood

Take your date someplace else, guys. Don't ruin your chances by trying to impress your girl with dinner at Lark. What a mistake. And FOR GODS SAKES don't make her eat that force-fed foie gras junk. She was NOT impressed. Damn.

• Pros: It coulda been worse.
• Cons: She's gonna hold this one against me for a while.

04/23/09

BanFoiegras

by BanFoisGras

A PETA investigation at a foie gras production facility in New York revealed that workers were expected to force-feed 500 birds three times a day. A worker told one of their investigators that he could feel tumour-like lumps, caused by force-feeding, in some ducks throats. One duck had a maggot-covered neck wound that was so severe that water spilled out of it when it drank. Workers routinely carried ducks by their necks, causing them to choke and defecate in distress. A New York State wildlife pathologist who examined ducks farmed to produce foie gras noted the birds had greatly enlarged livers, the product of overfeeding by force (livers are easily torn by even minor trauma) and one ducks laceration of the liver with haemorrhage into the body cavity.

04/20/09

Not a place to take your mother-in-law to, boys

by wl0000

After reading about all of the fanfare, I took my family in from out of town here with high hopes, but left with more than I bargained for. Note to lark: if I wanted oysters I would have ordered them from the menu.

After an altogether lackluster meal with remarkably flat, overpriced wine, I made my way to the restroom, but a funny thing happened on my way there...a lady idling at one of the tables near the back stood as I passed, pet my arm and invited herself into the men's room with me, promising an, um, explosive denouement to my unfulfilling supper. No thank you, miss, I was told crabs were out of season by the waitress. When I'm looking for a classier experience next time maybe I'll try Showgirls.

• Pros: There's a first time for everything, I suppose...

04/16/09

This Place Sells Unethical Products

by appolinaria666

Foie gras is a prime example of people putting their taste, pleasure and profit before animal's interests, which would be to be not treated as property, exploited and it's life snuffed out for you. They are living beings just like we are.

Please ask Lark's chef to remove this cruel product from their menu. Whether or not you believe animal suffers for foie gras, one thing is certain: An Animal Dies For It And It's Completely Unnecessary.

• Pros: Isn't trying to torture, end my life and serve me to you.
• Cons: Sells foie gras....a disgusting horrid product

04/16/09

Foie Gras Is Cruelty

by monkeyshines

There is no such thing as ethical foie gras. Lark considers themselves organic, sustainable and local...yet their foie gras comes from a farm in Sonoma, CA, one in which because of documented abuses, led to legal action being taken.

Please ask Lark to remove this from their menu.

Also, please consider your use of animal products in general: animal exploitation for your pleasure whether that is food, clothing and entertainment is selfish. Please consider animals for what they are - living beings not property to be exploited and abused.

• Cons: Serves Foie Gras

04/14/09

The Foie Gras is FANTASTIC!

by walude

I enjoy foie gras and I am so happy that they continue to serve the wonderful dish. I praise the owner for not backing down to bizzaro PETA insane folks and continuing to make wonderful food for those that can't live on wheat grass and rain water alone.

• Pros: Love me some foie gras

04/13/09

Foie Gras -- Yuk

by deco

Lark needs to stop selling foie gras. In offering this product, they are directly supporting extreme animal suffering. I have seen the videos and have read all the information. The ducks that are used to create this product undergo immense suffering. They are kept in incredibly cramped and filthy conditions and are force fed until their livers expand to several times their normal size. Many choke to death or freeze to death before they can even be slaughtered. Others literally burst open from the force feeding. There is simply no way to make foie gras humanely and I think Chef Sundstrom knows this. There is no excuse for this kind of animal cruelty. Please ask the chef to take foie gras off the menu and do not patronzie Lark until they do.