Restaurant recommendations for Seattle—Eastside
 

Seeking recommendations for good food in the Redmond/Bellevue/Kirkland areas, Redmond in particular. I have happily noted that DinTai Fung has a presence in Bellevue.
Thank you!

We are in this area a lot as my DH's office is in Redmond and we used to live there. These are our favorites:

Cafe Veloce (Kirkland, at Totem Lake)

Blu Sardinia (Redmond, at Bella Botega. Good happy hour)
Coho Cafe (In same complex as above)
Sip Thai (in same complex yet again, but on the backside and very tiny, so go early or expect to wait)
Stone Korean (you can to to go and sit at the wine/beer bar next door)
Victor's Coffee (coffee and pastries)
Tipsy Cow Burgers
Woodblock
La Isla
Purple(Bellevue and Woodinville)
Feed Company Burgers

If you make it to the Redmond Farmer's Market, do not miss the guy with the sausage hoagies. I can't remember what his name is, but he brings baguettes from Le Panier at Pike Place Market and then takes the bread out of the middle and stuffs it with a sausage/pepper/ sauce that is really good!

If you expand to Woodinville, there are many more great places as well. Hollywood Tavern, Bistro at Hollywood Schoolhouse, Twisted Cafe (great cuban food), Barking Frog, another Tipsy Cow, the cafe at Molbak's,

Wow, mms, love the variety of offerings, thank you! I had hoped to make it to the Redmond Farmer’s Market and now have an extra incentive.

Bon Voyage--Glad to help:) The farmers market is not large, but has some excellent produce. Look for the guy that brings his cat on a leash, lol.

Bella Botega has even more restaurants than I mentioned. The Pho place is good. DH likes JJ Mahoney's but I haven't been there. Then there are the usual things like MOD pizza etc.

Victors is good, but kind of quirky. No wifi, and they have signs that tell you that. They say something like "pretend it is 1990" lol. We would stop there on the way to the farmers market.

BTW, if you like to walk/run/bike ride, the Samammish River Trail goes right through downtown Redmond and is a nice trail.

It all sounds wonderful—thanks again!

If you're interested in fine dining, Cafe Juanita (in Kirkland, not too far from Redmond) is about as good as it gets in the Pacific NW. The chef, Holly Smith, is a previous James Beard award winner as best chef in the northwest. Cafe Juanita

Thank you, Gardyloo! I embrace good food in all of its forms.

I ate at Cafe Juanita about a year ago. We had an amazing meal. Wish I had thought of it when we were taking my SIL out for his birthday last week.

Thanks, lcuy, I was interested in checking out Kirkland and a celebration might be in order.