Dungeness crab appetizer with fish sauce and coconut foam

Poached chicken breast with pumpkin, collared greens, peppercorns, and quinoa

White chocolate and tarragon ganache dessert with campari pearls

Top Chef judges table

As featured in Top Chef Seattle, FareStart is a fantastic non-profit organization that provides culinary training for disadvantaged individuals in our community.  The students go through a 16-week culinary program that builds their cooking skills to be ready for the restaurant industry and gain living wage jobs. On a weekly basis, FareStart holds a guest chef that gives the students the experience to work with a premier Seattle chef to prepare an exquisite three-course meal.  

Some of these dinners sell out weeks in advance. These dinners are an amazing opportunity to support the program and taste the cooking of the guest chef. We attended a dinner that featured the cooking of Chef Matt Castello from the Inn at the Langley. The Inn at the Langley does some of the finest gastronomy constructions in Washington. So instead of going to Whidbey Island, it’s like they are coming to us. 

For our meal, we were served a dungeness crab appetizer with fish sauce and coconut foam. The entrée was a gastronomic creation that featured a poached chicken breast with pumpkin, collared greens, peppercorns, and quinoa. The last course was a white chocolate and tarragon ganache dessert with campari pearls. All the dishes were very delicious, full with flavor and creatively orchestrated. Please help support this wonderful organization, and stop in when you can.