Resonate Brewery & Pizzeria

Swung by on a Wednesday afternoon. As a previous reviewer noted, this place is basically a neighborhood brewery in size and scope. Pizza smelled very good but didn't have any. Space is basically a big box well-furnished. Beer was better than I expected. Really nice use of malts, from the porter to the black IPA to the alt. Even their radler was above par. Definitely worth a visit if you're in the area (although don't know why you would be).

Visited Feb '18. Came in here for a bite after work as it was only about a 15 minute cab ride from my hotel, and I was pleasantly surprised. Ended up being a good spot. Beers were good, food was solid. Nice people drinking at the bar. Lots of after work crowd folks here in groups. Friendly service. Bar trivia was being played. Lots of fun. I will be back next time I'm in town.

I love this place. Lot's of free beer here and an amazing dive bar next door that serves a stiff cocktail (take Uber to here). The epic review beneath mine sums it up well, read that.

It’s probably a little rude of me to say, since it might evoke old Seattle attitudes toward the burbs, but I hadn’t realized that there were strip malls and whatnot tucked up in the hills over here in Bellevue that had been here this long. That’s not a knock on the building at all—it feels truly brand-new inside. But you’re driving a ways to get to Factoria, and then you’re climbing some winding hilly roads to find the address, and then…well, there are hardly any streetlights, so it almost feels like a vacant lot for a second, but there it is. There’s plenty of parking, and the place is absolutely packed. What this is, even after just a few months in operation, is the family watering hole of choice for an entire neighborhood. Packs of kids in matching rained-on game-day sports uniforms, moms and dads in team hoodies, teammates across the room, neighbors over there, relatives over here. Everybody knows everybody, everybody’s glad to see everybody, the hustle and bustle lets everybody hang out and have their own space amid the crashing waves of crowd around them. It’s a really nice feel, because everybody seems really happy—it smells great as soon as you walk in, especially when it’s busy and lots of pizzas are cooking. You know the beer is fresh; you can see the brew tanks right through the window right when you walk in. Mood enhancers are in full effect. The staff are super nice right from the start—they put out a music stand full of menus and beer lists by the door, so you can pause to place your order at the counter. Music stand. Everything here feels like they support their local educational institutions, including that music stand, which feels like they musta got it for a couple bucks at the junior high fund raiser garage sale. Seriously, the implicit signals of community here are everywhere. Anyway, pick a pizza and a couple beers, and place your order. Turn around and pick a picnic table in the dining room. No idea what this place was before it became a pizzeria/brewery, but it could’ve been a lot of things, because it’s huge, and they clearly renovated it to make it what it is now. They framed in the brewhouse, the bar, the back hall/bathrooms, and a good-sized kitchen, all with just the right amount of space, and left room for a huge row of stools and several rows of picnic tables. There’s lots of free space between things, because, presumably, they knew their all-ages dining room would be packed with energetic kids. They were pouring three house beers—an APA, a wheat IPA, and a gose. These are cool choices for approachable, sessionable styles that they can use to build flagships for their lineup. There are plenty of moms and dads here with beers in front of them. The dads can gather under the flat screens to watch the game if they like. Their beers are definitely in the ballpark of where they need to be, which suits the somewhat more ambitious lineup of styles they’ve chosen. It’s not your usual blond, porter, amber, ipa, and so on, that most new breweries offer. It’ll be interesting to see if these guys try to build a reputation for their beers at other beer spots, or if they sell most of them in-house. We didn’t try the pizza, but only due to timing. They smelled incredible, and looked great. We toyed with the idea of the charcuterie plate, but it looked like $2 worth of supermarket charcuterie, and nothing else, and cost $13 (at least). The whole menu of beer and food is on a gigantic 12’ high chalkboard over the bar. This place is a pretty damn long drive for me, but I’d happily come back.