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Heavy Restaurant Group Brings Its Chic Urban Wine Bar to Bellevue Towers

Bellevue’s Purple Café & Wine Bar boasts a similar bustling, industrial chic vibe as the Seattle location. Here, though, dramatic “wine libraries” house the impressive wine collection, with rows of floor-to-ceiling shelves with the ability to hold some 15,000 bottles of wine. Wine Director Dawn Smith has put her expert spin on the global wine program, while Executive Chef Mike Davis introduces several signature dishes to Bellevue’s menu such as Roasted Rack of Lamb with Spicy Lamb Sausage. The restaurant will serve lunch and dinner seven days a week.

WHO: Heavy Restaurant Group opens its sixth restaurant with its fourth location of Purple Café & Wine Bar. www.heavyrestaurantgroup.com

WHAT: Purple Café & Wine Bar serves new American cuisine, which highlights seasonal Northwest ingredients.

WHERE: Located at NE 4th St and 106th Ave. NE on the retail level of downtown Bellevue’s Bellevue Towers.  For a link to the map of Purple Bellevue, click here.

WHEN:           Tuesday, October 6^th, 11 a.m.

Regular hours of operation will be Monday through Thursday, 11 a.m. until 11 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 11 a.m. until midnight; and Sunday, 11 a.m. until 10 p.m. Reservations are accepted for parties of all sizes.

Purple Café and Wine Bar is a multifaceted food and wine concept specializing in an eclectic Northwest-inspired menu coupled with an extensive global wine selection, including 90 wines by the glass, wine flights, and hundreds more wines by the bottle.

Purple is a two time winner of Evening Magazine’s “Best of Western Washington” contest in the category of “Best Wine Bar,” and has been awarded Wine Spectator’s “Award of Excellence” and Wine Enthusiast’s “Award of Ultimate Distinction.” In 2008 Purple was named “Best Place for Wine Tasting” and “Best Washington Wine Focused Wine Bar” by Seattle Magazine.

Purple is opening October 6, 2009 in downtown Bellevue at NE 4th St and 106th Ave. NE, Bellevue, Wash. (425) 502-6292, with locations at 323 Park Place Center, Kirkland, Wash. (425-828-3772), 1225 Fourth Ave., Seattle (206-829-2280) and 14459 Woodinville-Redmond Rd. NE, Woodinville, Wash. (425-483-7129). Purple Café and Wine Bar’s management office is located at 1218 Third Ave., Ste. 900, Seattle, 98101 (206-838-3852). Visit www.thepurplecafe.com for hours and more information.