Via Vita Café & Wine Bar is now open in downtown Bellevue.
The café offers breakfast, lunch, happy hour, and light dinner daily in the Belcarra apartment building at 1032 106th Ave. NE. Visitors can enjoy coffee, pastries, and small plates, as well as handmade gelato and European wines.
The owner’s trips to Europe inspired the café. The design resembles an Italian piazza.
Call (425) 449-8917 or visit www.viavitacafe.com for more information.
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Living in the condo beside it, I grabbed a cup of coffee from it.
Not bad, not great – roughly the same level as Top Pot Doughnuts down the street.
They seem to have some interesting bakery items in the cabinet, but selection is very limited (only one type of muffin) so I didn’t try them.
I think the shop needs to focus – they sell everything there: lunch, soup, ice cream, coffee, bakery, and wine. It will be a miracle if they can get 3 out of which right.
Will come back for more reviews as I try more.
You should go back now that they have been open for a couple weeks. Their coffee is great and they have a variety of fresh baked goods for breakfast. I have had lunch there twice now and was pleasantly surprised both times. I heard they are going to be doing Happy Hour so I’ll definitely try that too.
Very good! Had a lunch of “Croque-Madame” Brioche Bread, Ham, Gruyère Cheese Grilled Panini sandwich with sunny side up egg on top and a drizzle of Béarnaise sauce! YUMMO on a very cold, dark & rainy day! Within walking distance from my apartment too!
Very nice & knowledgable waiter too. GO!
My wife and I experienced the restaurant on 2 seperate occasions and found it to be very very good. The chefs version of bruschetta is to die for. We’ve had the beef bourguignon was excellent.
The wine list though limited is good and I’m sure will expand as the restaurant grows.
The restaurant cozyiness is nice and as more people find out about this restaurant, tables will be hard to come by.
AND To the person that posted that it’s roughly the same level as top pot, do me a favor and stay with top pot, the dunkin donuts of bellevue; I doubt you’d know culinary excellence if it bit you in the behind.
The website of this restaurant seems to be expired. I’m wondering if this might be an appropriate place to take a group of friends for a quiet happy hour. There is no information on the quality of the non-breakfast food items. Any thoughts?
Thanks
That’s odd. Their webpage was still up a couple of weeks ago. They’ve only been opened for a few months at most. I hope they haven’t gone out of business yet.
I would definitely take friends there for a quiet happy hour. I went there with my wife around Christmas, at happy hour time, and the place was nice and quiet. Not desolate, or creepily empty, but no big group of loud obnoxious yuppies like you would find at any other happy hour in Bellevue (I’m not naming names, but you all know the places I’m talking about). I guess that since it’s a bit out of the way, and their parking lot isn’t really easy to find, they get passed up by a lot of people. Which is fine by me. 🙂
Their menu is somewhat limited (maybe 5 or 6 different entrees, and about the same amout of appetizers), but everything we had there was really tasty and well thought-out. It’s a bit on the expensive side, though… We didn’t get to try their soup, which is priced quite a bit more reasonably than what we had (foie gras, filet mignon, etc. – Hey! We had a coupon!), but the people at the table next to us did, and it looked and smelled mighty tasty. Their cheese and cold cuts platters looked pretty good too. They do charge for bread, which could be a good thing, or a bad thing, depending of how much you care about the freshness/quality of your bread (we didn’t order any).
HAH! They must read this page… The site is up again! 🙂
Check our specials out on twitter @ ViaVitaCafe
The restaurant has a plethora of specials going on to celebrate new items on the menu; along with welcoming all local Bellevue resident’s and friends. The wine menu has expanded significantly. Their new website went live a couple of weeks ago, subsequently it appears to be a hot ticket in the downtown Bellevue area now. I strongly advise checking it out!!!