Eat & Drink

A food scene fueled by every culture

Bellevue eats like a much bigger city — Sichuan, Taiwanese, Vietnamese, Japanese, Indian, Ethiopian, and steakhouse classics, often in the same strip mall.

Local favorites

Din Tai Fung
Soup dumplings and shaved-ice desserts at Lincoln Square.
Monsoon
Modern Vietnamese with a legendary crispy drunken chicken.
Bis on Main
Old Bellevue's white-tablecloth standard-bearer.
Daniel's Broiler
Steak with a Lake Washington sunset out the window.
Crossroads Food Court
Twenty kitchens, twelve countries, one table.
Kizuki Ramen
Slow-simmered tonkotsu that locals default to on rainy nights.

Featured tables & bars

Chopsticks lifting a soup dumpling from a steamer basket

Food · Lincoln Square

Din Tai Fung

Soup dumplings folded to eighteen pleats. Expect a wait.

Plate of pleated dumplings with dipping sauce on a wooden table

Food · Bellevue Way

Facing East

Taiwanese beef rolls and pork buns in a strip-mall legend.

Illuminated Bellevue high-rise tower at night above the treeline

Nightlife · Downtown

Ascend Prime Steak & Sushi

Seventeenth-floor rooftop with Rainier on a clear night.