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Bellevue’s About to Get Really Full

You know about all the notable restaurants that have recently opened in Bellevue. (Um…’cause we told you.)

But you may not know what’s still in store, so here’s the 4-1-1. Paddy Coyne’s, Chantanee Thai, Boom Noodle, and Blue C Sushi are all on deck for later this spring, the latter two for Bellevue Square.

Come summer, look for another Purple Cafe, another Barrio (twin of Capitol Hill’s latest Mexi-mod hotspot), and a dessert cafe called Bliss.

Then in the fall we’ll see John Howie Steak (he’s the guy who has Seastar) and the Eastside outpost of Wild Ginger, both at The Bravern. Perhaps coolest, celebrated New York chef Terrance Brennan (a 1995 Food and Wine magazine Best New Chef) will bring his Artisanal brand (Wine Bar and Artisanal Table Pizzeria Tapas Wine Bar) to The Bravern as well: the first national expansion of that brand.











Kathryn Robinson
Kathryn Robinson
Senior Writer Seattle native Kathryn Robinson, award-winning restaurant critic and senior writer at Seattle Met, has been anonymously reviewing restaurants for over 30 years—first as editor of the Best Places guidebook series, then as staff critic at Seattle Weekly and contributing critic at The Seattle Times and Seattle magazine.  Midcareer she spent a year-long sabbatical studying comparative religion as a Knight Fellow at Stanford University where she had been an undergrad 10 years earlier, gaining a knowledge base she now calls upon for her monthly “Back Fence” column on our collective urban existence and the meaning it holds for our personal lives. In her off hours she is a partner and a parent—which means she has no off hours.