The list of places to get a good glass in downtown Bellevue just got shorter. This weekend marked the closings of Stir Martini and Raw Bar as well as Twisted Cork Wine Bar. Both venues belonged to the Solstice Restaurant Group.

Steel-accented Stir opened just this past summer, touting specialty cocktails and a bountiful array of tasty sea creatures.

An early sign of trouble at Twisted Cork came this January, when Solstice announced it was shuttering high-end 0/8 Seafood Grill, the restaurant adjoining Twisted Cork, and expanding the wine bar to fill the entire space. Oh and then there was the fact that Chef/radio personality Dan Thiessen, who originally headed up the kitchen at both Stir and Twisted Cork, had left several months earlier. He now runs Archery Bistro in Normandy Park.