Bellevue Rainy Day Guide

Bellevue has roughly 150 rainy days a year. Here's how to do them well.

The skybridge plan

The Bellevue Collection connects Bellevue Square, Lincoln Square, and Bellevue Place via covered skybridges. You can shop, eat, watch a movie, bowl, and have cocktails without ever putting up a hood.

Museums & libraries

• BAM for two hours and a coffee in the lobby cafe.
• Bellevue Library main branch — bright, kid-friendly, café upstairs.
• Eastside Heritage Center for the curious.

Bowling, movies, arcade

• Lucky Strike at Lincoln Square — bowling + cocktails.
• Cinemark Lincoln Square for the big screen.
• Punch Bowl Social for darts, ping-pong, food.

Cafes worth a long sit

• Cafe Cesura — proper espresso, marble counter.
• General Porpoise — donuts and a window seat.
• Tea Bar — bring a book.

Real cooking class

Sur La Table Old Bellevue has a real working kitchen and runs hands-on classes most weekends.

Family rainy day

Crossroads food court → Crossroads cinema matinee → Half-Price Books → home. Three hours, $40, zero drama.

The very Pacific Northwest move

Embrace it. Get a Gore-Tex jacket, walk Downtown Park in the rain, then warm up at Belle Pastry with a croissant and a hot chocolate.

For more seasonal ideas, browse our seasonal guides.