Bellevue has landed a lot of national and international chains in the past year, from Milk Bar to Daeho to Sui Wah Seafood to Asian grocery heavyweight T&T. Now there’s going to be yet another massive, bring-the-whole-sales-team-or-the-whole-family restaurant in downtown Bellevue: Shoo Loong Kan, a hot pot chain originating in China’s Sichuan province, is arriving to West Main.
West Main is a gigantic development from real estate company Vulcan, encompassing three huge mixed-use towers. The anchor tenant is Amazon, which is planning to move thousands of jobs to Bellevue in the coming years. The other announced retail tenants are La Mar Cevichería Peruana, a Peruvian restaurant, and an outpost of self-pour chain Tapster.
Shoo Loong Kan is known as Xiaolongkan outside of the U.S. and opened its first U.S. location under that name in L.A. in 2019. The chain now has additional branches in Chicago and New York; future locations are being planned in New Jersey, Dallas, Houston, and Las Vegas.
Like the West Main development itself, the new hot pot restaurant will be big and shiny — it’ll fill an incredible 5,000 square feet and include a huge 3-D mural of a dragon. There’s no precise opening date but the press release from Vulcan says that Shoo Loong Kan plans to open later this year.
The West Main development is located at 117 106th Avenue Northeast in Bellevue.