First Look: Tavern Hall Opens in Bellevue
October 7, 2014
The massive new hangout was previously home to Munchbar.
It's right by the sky bridge connecting Lincoln Square and Bellevue Square.
The brothers behind the Cactus restaurants and the duo that brought us Bastille, Poquitos, Stoneburner, et al. are behind it.
You could get lost in this 9,500-square-feet space, which starts off with a massive dining hall with lofty wood-beamed ceilings
The menu is full of detailed takes on classic bar food: like the Tavern Burger which comes with smoked bacon, Mama Lil's peppers, crispy fried onions and &efrac13;-pound beef chuck and brisket patty, all on a potato bun.
The pizzas (which go by the name of flatbreads here) come from a woodstone oven fitted with a pizza-cam.
The first of two bars at Tavern Hall is in the front and connects through the dining hall.
...and all-wooden booths and high tables.
The enormous clock hails from Buenos Aires. The white decorative boulders come from a building in Baltimore.
The bar counters are topped with pennys.
Happy hour runs only in the two bar areas 3 to 6 daily.
Weimann and Maclise love a good light fixture. The wagon-wheel ones above the front bar area are old and repurposed.
The dining hall continues into the back...
Where it connects to the second bar area.
Separating the dining hall and the second bar area are two towering glass panels which used to be church windows in Portland.
The second bar has two more shuffleboard tables, a TV-cube (that makes about 21 TVs in total)...
The leather tufted sofas flank a fireplace...
A DJ booth in the dining area, with a shelf of Rock-n-Roll vinyls, means there'll be live spinning on weekends and over big games, during commercials and half-time.
If you find any one of the four shuffleboards unoccupied, grab it! They're free to play.
that's almost a 100 yeard old, from Amish country.
And a separate bar of its own (also penny-topped).
When James Weimann and Deming Maclise are involved, let's just say this place is full of cool old repurposed things.
