John Sundstrom

John Sundstrom is chef and owner of Lark restaurant in Seattle. He has been named one of Food & Wine's Best New Chefs, won an IACP Judges Choice Award, and won a James Beard Award for Best Chef Northwest. Salt Lake City-born John Sundstrom apprenticed in a traditional Japanese restaurant for four years before graduating from the New England Culinary Institute in 1989. Sundstrom staged his way across New York and San Francisco, cooking in the kitchens of Daniel Boulud, Jean-Georges Vongerichten,...See more

John Sundstrom is chef and owner of Lark restaurant in Seattle. He has been named one of Food & Wine's Best New Chefs, won an IACP Judges Choice Award, and won a James Beard Award for Best Chef Northwest. Salt Lake City-born John Sundstrom apprenticed in a traditional Japanese restaurant for four years before graduating from the New England Culinary Institute in 1989. Sundstrom staged his way across New York and San Francisco, cooking in the kitchens of Daniel Boulud, Jean-Georges Vongerichten, Diane Forley, Gary Danko, and Traci Des Jardins. In 2003 Sundstrom opened Lark, and in 2007, won the James Beard Award for "Best Chef, Northwest." See less