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First Look: Bell and Whete Opens in Belltown

July 14, 2014

Bell+Whete, by the owners of Local 360, is at the ground floor of the 206 Bell Apartments, near the corner of 2nd and Bell.

Photography by Nidhi Chaudhry

Inspired by the Anglo-Normans, the space is tricked out with roomy leather booths and various Old World-style trappings.

Photography by Nidhi Chaudhry

Heads up! You'll want to grab the booths next to the large garage-door windows (thankfully there are plenty of those).

Photography by Nidhi Chaudhry

The drink selection is gin- and beer-heavy, with 63 beers, Stumptown coffee, Marley's tonic and a rotating house cocktail all on tap.

Tour de Viande is the thing to order if you want to sample what's best at Bell + Whete — it's a charcuterie board with housemade sausages, house-cured hams, foie gras torchon and smoked trout.

By Nidhi Chaudhry

The boar bratwurst, spicy saucisson garlic sausage, venison juniper porcini sausage and duck and foie gras sausage are made in-house and are a must try.

By Nidhi Chaudhry

The Tour de Viande comes with three house-cured hams - Lomo, Speck and Lardo

By Nidhi Chaudhry

Photography by Nidhi Chaudhry

The black-on-white paintings about the kitchen service window were done by a local artisit and inspired from illustrations in the first cookbook ever printed in German, circa 1485.

Photography by Nidhi Chaudhry