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Munchbar Opens in Bellevue

This Friday night, Bellevue Square goes just a little more Vegas.

The Vegas munchbar

Last spring Caesars Palace in Vegas welcomed munchbar, a high-energy nosh joint with artisanal comfort foods and tasty lubricants. This Friday night the thing roars into Bellevue Square: 6,300 square feet of pure, high-concept dining, drinking, and, um…“service with a twinge of sass.”

Well the dining and drinking should be fun.

Seis Kamimura, late of BOKA, heads up a kitchen big on massive-flavor comfort foods: pizzadillas (pepperoni, creamy tomato cheese sauce, and basil in a flour tortilla); burgers (including a turkey burger with fennel-mushroom stuffing, cranberries and herb mayo; and a short rib patty melt on rye) with hand-cut fries; Kobe beef chili with spicy jalapeno cornbread; grilled tuna with roasted fingerling potatoes, spinach, and lemon vinaigrette; and more. Including finales like butterscotch pudding with snickerdoodles.

All within a space all livened up by the graffiti of artist Jordan Nickel. Guests can add to the decor by making their own mark on the big wall-sized blackboards. Kinetic music and sports events will fill the airwaves til 10pm, at which point DJs transform the place into a “fresh and funky ultra lounge.”

Your kind of place? Find out this Friday night, January 28, starting at 8pm.











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.