LeTao’s first US location is in Bellevue luxury mall the Bravern.
Hours-long lines wrapped around Tendon Kohaku’s downtown Bellevue building for months after the Singapore-based chain opened here in 2024, with diners enduring the endless waits for their turn to sample delicate tempura shrimp, Wagyu beef, and yuzu-marinated salmon. Not long after, a few blocks away, the Japan-based LeTao opened in the Bravern, its imported cheesecakes arranged like fine jewelry in the case of Van Cleef & Arpels.
Both Tendon Kohaku’s and LeTao’s Bellevue outposts were each company’s first US locations. The previous year, the city hosted stateside debuts of Indian chains Farzi Café and Mavalli Tiffin
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