The Seattle Times - LOCAL CHEF Matt Dillon, winner of the 2012 James Beard Award for Best Chef Northwest, has taken farm-to-table dining to a new level of excellence in Seattle. His restaurants, Sitka & Spruce and The Corson Building, feel like cozy old homes where you can enjoy thoughtfully prepared hyper-local fare.Earlier this year, I was lucky enough to attend a private benefit dinner at The Corson Building. At the restaurant in industrial Georgetown, there might be a dog barking upstairs, or a freight train screaming yards away, or a suckling pig roasting in the outdoor fireplace — or all of this happening at once — as you savor Dillon's creative food at a rustic table with mismatched cutlery. He is a master of juxtapositions, teaching us to expect the unexpected
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