Blue Martini

The rating says it all.

Music: no opinion
Setting: 3 (low lit, reminds me of munchbar)
People: 1 (douche-bags and gold diggers)
Drinks/Prices: 2 (many drinks look overly sweet, price is the worst part, if you want good martinis/drinks then go to zig zag in seattle)

    I do enjoy going to to many places and explore to find places to remember and recommend to my friends. Generally I expect good service and good food etc for most place. But the bar/restaurant must stand out in some way for me to be pushed to write a review or even recommend the place to my friends. This being said, I either write a review for service being extraordinary or service being sub par and unacceptable. Either way, these extremes are usually the ones most remembered.  I place on using Yelp more often to write more reviews on my favorite hot spots.  

    The Blue Martini is one of those places on the sub par side of things. My girlfriend and I were meeting friends @7pm and had reservations for our party of 6. Our friends were a little early and were seated before we arrived. The woman who made the reservation with us explained she messed up and only gave us a table for 4. They didn't even care to make it right. We arrived at about 7:10pm to find our friends had been there since 6:45. They apparently messed up our friends drinks and food order and mentioned to us their experience so far.

    The reservation was messed up and their incompetent staff had no concern for the error or inconvenience we were having. We looked around only to find well over a dozen or so tables with reservation notes on them.  Makes us wonder if we are to flash cash at them then maybe they would want to help us out more. Anyhow,  What a waste of our time.  Our friends were having their drinks and bar food. They ordered some kind of flat bread pizza thing and a very expensive martini of sorts that looked overly sweet. The drink they ordered apparently wasn't even the correct one, it was mistakenly given to them as they didn't take the order down correctly.  We were only there for 5 minutes before deciding to leave to grab drinks and dinner elsewhere.

    As we left the restaurant, we needed parking validation. We did not get any since we didn't sit down to eat. But the parking garage attendant was rude and could care less about our negative experience at blue martini. He insisted he didn't care and had us pay for parking even though it was for less than 10 minutes. We asked him kindly to check the ticket to see how long our car had been parked. We were obviously dressed up to go out and were very upset due to the error in reservations... Anyhow, he still didn't care.  I simply gave him a bill larger than that which was due and told him to keep the change. I felt robbed at this point. I then continued to tell him that we will never be back again at the bravern in general due to the poor customer service and negative experience. Sadly, I was occasionally found at Howes steak house for dinner and shop often at David Lawrence. Most importantly, tonight has ruined it for me entirely. I am not a fan of this blue martini shiny shirt crowd and high maintenance showy/snooty women in their lingerie work attire. This bar tends to draw a douche-bag like crowd and gold digger type women. If you are into this sort of thing, maybe the blue martini is your place. Be prepared to spend more money than you think and get less than acceptable service and mediocre drinks/food.
   
    Good riddance and never again. I expect stellar customer service at the bravern as a whole. This experience was downright unacceptable. No wonder the ratings of this place average very low. My two cents is to find another place in Bellevue to hang out with friends.

It's just okay, all the way around.  While they do have many different martini selections, most are just one sweet ingredient after another.  I was quite pleased with the flatbread pizza I purchased, but the menu as a whole isn't that impressive.  Given its location I was hoping I might find a few must or items, but it wasn't meant to be.  I've noticed that several reviewers have commented on the attire the waitresses wear, but I'm not going to say much on that matter.  They're dressed EXACTLY the way their target customer would want them to be attired.  Is Blue Martini a unique spot in Bellevue?  Not by any stretch of the imagination; however, it's found it's niche.