Neb Italian Restaurant
Italian restaurant · Belltown ·
Extensive Italian wine list, wood-fired dishes, and negroni flights
Extensive Italian wine list, wood-fired dishes, and negroni flights
"One of several ventures by restaurateur Tom Douglas, Neb has grown into its own as a serious purveyor of rustic Italian cuisine. Nevertheless, it’s the extensive wine list that seals the deal and makes this place more than just a convenient pit stop before shows over at the Moore Theatre. The offerings are all Italian (the name “Neb” stands for the Italian grape nebbiolo), featuring vintages new and old from regions such as Piedmont, Veneto, Tuscany, Sardinia, and Sicily. Enjoy a bottle or explore all of Italy via glass — it’s tough to go wrong with this fine of a selection." - Brianna Gunter
"As its name suggests, the extensive wine list is = the centerpiece of Neb, the latest addition to restaurateur Tom Douglas’s downtown mini-empire. But while the curated wines indeed pair excellently with the menu’s wood-fired Italian dishes and Tuscan cellar ambience, Neb’s hidden gem is its negroni list. From a classic negroni featuring botanist gin to the house “neb-groni” with malfy rosa, this is a Campari lover’s paradise. There’s even a nonalcoholic phony negroni for nondrinkers who want to feel just as classy as their cocktail- and wine-sipping friends." - Brianna Gunter
"Surprise: Tom Douglas has added another Downtown restaurant to his roster. Neb is an Italian cocktail and Piedmontese wine bar that’s an homage to his nickname, “Neb Head,” and the short menu involves snacks, pastas, and more substantial mains like short rib or chicken scamorza meatballs over polenta. And in classic Italian fashion, there’s an aperitivo hour every day from 5-6pm. We recently checked out Neb Wine Bar. Read our first thoughts here. " - Kayla Sager Riley
"Neb, a Belltown wine bar whose menu involves cured meats, cheeses, small plates, and pastas, completes the Tom Douglas monopoly on the corner of Virginia and 4th Ave. And while the riled-up energy in here on an otherwise snoozy Sunday evening is great (as is the hand-sliced mortadella), there’s nothing particularly exciting happening here. We’d sooner hit up nearby Le Caviste for any serious wine-drinking and snacking. photo credit: Neb That is, unless bread is your thing. Neb’s crowning achievement is the pecorino fosette, a fluffy focaccia-like disc slick with olive oil and showered in grated cheese. If the moment calls for sustenance before a show at The Moore, have at some salumi boards and toasty artichoke-kale bruschettas, which shine just as brightly as the fossette itself. But if a full meal’s in the cards, forgo the bland mushroom lasagna, too-fibrous broccoli rabe, and dry short rib." - Aimee Rizzo
"I noted Tom Douglas’s eponymous group opened its latest business, a wine bar called Neb, in downtown Seattle on Virginia between Third and Fourth Avenues; the menu is described as speaking to the “rustic northwest” and being “Italianesque,” but the place is really about an extensive Negroni menu — including a zero-proof Negroni — and an Italian wine list with glasses starting at about $10 and rare, large bottles carrying $300-plus price tags. I also observed that Neb is open Wednesdays through Sundays starting at 5 p.m." - Harry Cheadle
