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More on Black Bottle’s New Bellevue Location

The restaurant will be called Black Bottle Postern and is slated to open mid-February.

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Black Bottle in Belltown

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I just got off the phone with Chris Linker, a partner in the Black Bottle restaurants and general manager of both the Belltown location and the soon-to-be Bellevue spot.

He says the new restaurant will be called Black Bottle Postern—postern, meaning a secondary door or gate, because the restaurant’s main entrance is around the side of the building.

Scheduled to open in mid-February, Black Bottle Postern will have a menu made up mostly of shareable plates, similar in price and portion size to those at the Belltown location, though most of the recipes will be new. (Favorites like blasted broccoli will make the trip over the lake.) The wine list will also be similar—the buyer is the same—but ultimately depends on what people are drinking over there on the Eastside.

The new construction has the same square footage as the 100-year-old space that houses the Belltown restaurant. In other words, don’t expect a blown-up, suburban version of a Seattle restaurant.

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Tags: New Seattle Restaurants, Bellevue, Seattle Restaurant Openings, Belltown, Exports to the Eastside

Black Bottle Gastrotavern to Open Second Location

The new restaurant will be in downtown Bellevue.

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Black Bottle plans a second restaurant in Bellevue.

Black Bottle in Belltown is planning a second location on the other side of the lake, part-owner Brian Durbin (one of his partners is wife Nicole) confirmed on Monday.

Black Bottle opened in 2005 to a fair amount of hype. In its hot-spot era it was wall-to-wall attractive people stealing glances at one another and oohing and aahing over the “blasted” broccoli and seven spice shrimp. Since then it has seemed to enjoy a pretty consistent clientele including a lot of neighborhood fans, quite a feat when you consider the many tumbleweeds rolling through Belltown’s high-end establishments theses days.

The location for Black Bottle Bellevue is 919 Bellevue Way NE. I’ll be back with details—opening day, menu, decor details, wine list (the Belltown branch has a smart collection of offerings, mostly New World)—shortly.

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Tags: New Seattle Restaurants, Seattle Restaurant Openings, Restaurant News, Exports to the Eastside

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