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New Restaurant Opening In Bellevue Hyatt Footprint

Bellevue – After months of speculation, the reality of breaking ground on a new restaurant is at hand for Chef Dan Thiessen. This week’s demolition of the former Chadfield’s restaurant in the footprint of the Hyatt Regency Bellevue has commenced to make way for the 0/8 Seafood Grill and Twisted Cork Wine Bar to occupy 7,600 square feet, seating 225 guests. The $2.4 million remodel is expected to be completed pre-Holiday 2006.

This concept combines two elements into a single vision between Thiessen and Matthew Bomberger, owner of the Twisted Cork Wine Bar. Thiessen named the restaurant for the date he and his wife Erika were wed.

The space for 0/8 Seafood Grill, and Twisted Cork Wine Bar, will be all about a guest’s sensual journey. The color palate is a seamless blend of sea tones in the lower strata, sky tones in the ceiling areas. Greeting guests will be a fluid art feature. Intimate areas, flexible sections, private dining rooms for parties up to 100 and open spaces will ebb and flow depending on the needs of the day’s diners.

0/8 Seafood Grill will serve dinner daily, lunch Monday through Friday. With a base menu of 20 appetizers, a range of sharable selections and a full compliment of main course seafood and meat offerings, meals will be in constant transition serving each diner’s wish. Weekends will be a celebration time with the Eastside’s only weekend buffet and prix fix brunch, served on Saturdays and Sundays from 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Twisted Cork Wine Bar will serve as a platform for discovery, with 70 wines available by-the-glass, 20 of which are Champagne and sparkling selections, and a cellar containing 300 bottles. Seating will be available at the bar, as well as at tables in close proximity to the bar, and in the one of a kind Champagne Lounge. A menu of appetizers, cheeses and desserts is being created, with wine in mind, for perfect pairings. Weekly wine events, five nights a week live entertainment and an extensive list of wine flights and crafted cocktails round out the lounge activities.

All this focus on the high touch aspects of the restaurant does not mean that 0/8 Seafood Grill will not exude highly interactive elements. A sophisticated guest relationship management tool will give the staff insights into every customer’s whim. Guests will also have wireless access to the Internet, enabling them to build online wine wish lists and take individual tasting notes online in real time through the restaurant’s website.

 
 
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