Lark Restaurant, Seattle

Specializing in small plates to share, Lark's stated mission is to "use sustainable products from trusted artisans." Chef Jonathan Sundstrom, named Best Chef Northwest by the James Beard Foundation for 2007, creates inspired dishes with thoughtfully sourced ingredients like produce from "Billy's Farm" in the Okanogan. Originally built in the 1920s, the comfortable space retains the rustic farmhouse wood-beam ceiling and original plank floors from the bakery formerly housed here. Sample several artisan cheeses and then experiment with slightly risque items like Snake River Farms beef tartare with Roquefort, mizuna and pickled beet or instead sample the Pommes de terre "Robuchon" for a safer bet.