Restaurants in Bellevue

Today’s Groupon gets you $25 worth of drinks and yummy dishes at eco-friendly Julia’s Restaurant for $10. With four locations to choose from (Queen Anne, Issaquah, Wallingford, and Capitol Hill), there are plenty of opportunities to enjoy the culinary wonder of local eats.Julia Child: More than nine-and-a-half feet tall, her kitchen was specially designed to accommodate her towering height and immense strength. The kitchen’s most notable feature was its many chloroform gas nozzles to knock out the star chef when she flew into one of her many uncontrollable rages.

After 10 years cooking in the frenetic kitchens of New York City restaurants, Executive Chef Jeffrey "Cheffrey" Wilson moved to Seattle hoping to find room to freely express his culinary talents. The owners at Table 219 were impressed by his experience at Gramercy 24 and gave him that chance by asking him to develop their menu. He eventually became a partner of the business as he honed his own brand of New American fare, whipping up dishes such as bison burgers and mini tuna-tartar tacos. After taking the reins as sole owner, he renamed the restaurant Americana to reflect the eclectic cuisine and the eatery's interior design. Dark woods and tin-tile accents create a rich, historical ambiance ideal for gatherings with friends or reenactments of pioneer speed-dating events. Wilson relies on a team of mixologists to stir up specialty cocktails—such as the Lemon Meringue Pie with whipped-cream vodka—that also complement the stars-and-stripes vibe.

Rosebud resides just west of the Harvard Market, boasting an outdoor patio and a red-walled lounge where local art hangs above striped, cushiony couches. Accents of jazz emanate through the air while roses stand within curvaceous glass vases that complement a patron's perusal of the menu, which is filled with savory classics. A spinach salad with spiced walnuts, goat cheese, and a raspberry-balsamic vinaigrette ($7) lays fresh foliage on an appetite, preparing the way for fire-roasted prawn cocktails with jicama-carrot slaw and golden beet–horseradish puree ($10), and baked mac and cheese with smoked gouda influences ($9). Bone-in pork loins are paired with roasted parsnips and apples ($19), while vegetable aficionados can indulge in a three-cheese vegetarian lasagna baked with marinara and béchamel sauces ($15).

Wrap taste buds around an impressive lineup of savories, including vegetable ratatouille under melted imported Swiss cheese, herb butter, and fresh spinach ($6.95), and scrambled-egg crêpes draped in a subtle mushroom sauce ($5.75). Smoked-wild-salmon-lox crêpes with crème fraiche and lemon ($7.25) punctuate brunch-time bites alongside the semi-sweet cooked-apple crêpe with a dash of maple syrup and imported Swiss ($6.50). Make the leap to full-on sweet with dulce-de-leche caramel crêpes topped with real whipped cream ($4.50), or dark-chocolate crêpes with raspberry sauce, chopped hazelnuts, and real whipped cream ($5.95), among many others. Locally made ice cream and hot and cold drinks are also available.

For the benefit of wines rich and wines sweet, Cellar 46º unfolds a menu of savory indulgences. Pick up a mealtime preamble such as hot crab dip with artichokes baked under a melted sea of havarti cheese ($12) or the poached pear and gorgonzola salad marinated in red wine with cinnamon and nutmeg ($12). Larger cravings look toward roasted pork loin stuffed with spinach and mushrooms alongside whipped Yukon gold potatoes ($21), while veggie-minded diners can pair a glass of Villa Diana Pinot Grigio ($8) with the breaded eggplant Napolean, which is layered with roasted red peppers, spinach, and chevre ($17).

Brasserie Margaux executive chef Michael White conjures a French-inspired menu of delectable dishes from a harvest of fresh Northwest ingredients, which he in turn conjures from the very air itself. Start the day off sweetly with a breakfast of malted-honey Margaux waffle ($9) drizzled with marion-berry syrup, or indulge in a luxurious lunch of pan-seared halibut ($15) cooked in a white wine and lemon fume. White's decadent dinner menu kicks things off with steamed clams or mussels ($7) in a butter and white wine sauce and panko-crusted crab cakes ($14) served with jalapeño aioli before moving on to eclectic entrees. Everything from the lemon-basil-butter salmon ($24) to the Dungeness-crab-covered filet mignon ($35) will find a leggy tango partner on the brasserie's extensive wine menu. Herbivores, meanwhile, can abide by their uneasy peace treaty with cows by ordering wild-mushroom crêpes ($16) stuffed with ricotta with a goat-cheese fondue. Brasserie Margaux's signature dessert of "perfect" profiteroles ($6) topped with whipped-cream peaks and glazed with dark chocolate mark a satisfying completion to any meal or intra-restaurant reenactment of the signing of the Constitution.