About The FareStart Restaurant
The FareStart Restaurant, located at 7th & Virginia in downtown Seattle, is open for lunch Monday-Friday from 11am–2pm, and for Guest Chef Night dinners on Thursday from 6-8 p.m. By dining at the FareStart Restaurant, you can enjoy delicious cuisine while also learning more about the FareStart program. All proceeds from our lunch service and from Guest Chef Night go directly back into the program to support the FareStart job training and placement programs. We look forward to having you dine with us soon!
To make reservations for lunch or Guest Chef Night, click here for more information!
Restaurant Location:
7th & Virginia
Seattle, WA 98101
Restaurant Host Desk:
206-267-7601 (lunch and general information)
Reservations: Lunch and Dinner Reservation info
206-267-7606 (Guest Chef Night reservations)
Restaurant Design
Highlights of the restaurant include the chef “wall of fame,” featuring many of the fantastic chefs who participate in FareStart’s Guest Chef Night events, a mezzanine dining level providing a sweeping overview of the dining room, and the centerpiece of the space – the FareStart Community Table.
Restaurant designer Darren Medina, an executive from Starbucks who volunteered his time and talent to this project, was very intentional in his creation of the Community Table. Fashioned from two wooden beams rescued from the demolition process at the outset of construction, the table is beautifully rough-hewn and representative of three key elements of the FareStart program.
First, it represents the community FareStart strives to foster, especially for its students, who have either lost that connection, or never had one in the first place. Secondly, it represents permanence – also a desired quality for formerly homeless men and women – as it is permanently fixed into the construction of the dining room.
And finally, it represents a second chance: breathing new life into something once considered not useful. Because as we tell new students in the FareStart program, where you come from isn’t as important as where you’re going.
