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Black Bottle Postern

 

Black Bottle Postern is a casual tavern committed to great eating and drinking at fair prices. Come with a large group or for an intimate evening for two. Cheers!

 

919 BELLEVUE WAY N.E.

[southeast corner of avalon towers]
425.223.5143 reservations

OPEN @ 3PM every day
close @ 12AM S thru W | 2AM Th thru Sat

21 AND OLDER

[gladly validate 3 hours parking in towers]

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FOOD    rustic pub food

Happy Hour 3 to 6 pm [but we always have affordable eats]

$4~$6 honest pints  [12 taps]

$5~$15  glasses of wine [46 bottles & 3 wine kegs]

$6~$10 house-infused cocktails

 



Meat

6 house-smoked wild boar ribs
8 pulled pork tacos
7 crispy fried chicken with ginger soy dipping sauce
8 gorgonzola cream chicken
10 bulgar wheat harissa lamb meatballs & paneer
11 pork belly and kimchi
14 house duck sausage rainbow chard shiitake mushrooms
12 natural hanger steak* and daikon/shiso
16 seared duck breast cranberry port compote
18 center cut sirloin malbec glaze oyster mushrooms

seafood

2/9 gold creek oyster on half shell* (ea or 1/2 doz)
11 stuffed calamari and chicken-fried tentacles
13 penn cove manila clams and chorizo
12 yellowfin tuna sashimi poke
11 ceviche and tortillas
11 seven spice shrimp
13 cilantro pesto salad grilled octopus and fava beans
13 bacon lemon scallops and frizzled kale
18 local ling cod en papillote mediterranean sauté

veggies

7 roasted tomato caprese and fresh oregano
9 gruyere emmentaler beet gratin and mache/rocket
8 fennel melon salad meyer lemon vinaigrette
8 chola batura eggplant potato chickpeas hot
9 roasted vegetables verjus
7 butter lettuce pomegranate goat cheese salad
8 broccoli blasted
10 roasted baby artichoke hearts & chickpea salad curry vinaigrette

flatbread

9 pear and gorgonzola
9 niçoise olives feta roasted tomato
9 prosciutto and bechamel
9 spicy fennel sausage dandelion greens & fresh mozz

also

5 spanish fried olives and romesco
7 new brooklyn pastrami bombers
6 goat cheese stuffed peppadews | marinated olives
2 side of flatbread
14 cheese and charcuterie board

sweets

8 cacao nib mousse tort & chili pistachio brittle
8 bourbon sauced bread pudding (maker's mark)
5 earl grey panna cotta
4 passionfruit sorbetto & guava gelée
7 rhubarb beet tart-cherry tartlet vanilla gelato

All our food is made from scratch using local ingredients whenever possible. We start at 7AM baking the Challah for our bread pudding, slow roasting the pork belly, stuffing the duck sausages. Good food takes time and there are no short cuts. The tongue cannot be fooled.

-Chef Brian Durbin

 



pos•tern |’pōst rn; ‘päs-|

    noun
    a back or side entrance:
    [as adj.] a large postern door.

 




photos by Denise Sakaki









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Cocktails

7 debutante: aperol grapefruit prosecco
6/24 spiced sangria: red wine brandy spices cassis
11 bluebird: goose martini w/blue cheese-stuffed olive
10 vesper: aviation ketel on lillet lemon twist
8 throwback manhattan: rye boissiere peychauds
9 major danger: fresh strawberry infused lemondrop
8 peach blossom: vodka peach elderflower prosecco
10 eastside: hendricks fresh cucumber lemongrass soda
9 flor de tequila: reposado hibiscus lime egg whites
10 dark 'n' stormy: goslings black seal rum & ginger beer
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Beer

new brooklyn pastrami bombers 7
4 Fremont Universale Pale Ale WA
4 Maritime Old Seattle Lager WA
5 Diamond Knot Brewery Brown Ale WA
5 Radeberger Pilsner DE
5 Ninkasi Total Domination IPA OR
5 Diamon Knot Industrial XIPA WA
5 Snoqualmie Falls Black Frog Nitro Stout WA
5 Mac & Jack's African Amber Ale WA
5 Fremont Summer Solstice Ale WA
5 Stone Arrogant Bastard CA
6 Ayinger Hefeweizen DE
5 Pike Naughty Nellie Golden Ale WA