If you had asked me 17 years ago what Bellevue restaurants would still be in business, I would have included Porta Via for its friendly owners and meticulously made food.Don't call them "just sandwiches" -- the layers were crafted from ingredients obviously carefully selected for pairing, calibrated for flavor profile, and hand-chopped for proper distribution. Olives were minced, sun-dried tomatoes cut into slivers, basil was cut julienne.
Porta Via has been revived by Mehrdad Alviri, br